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Magnolia High School Algebra 1 and College Algebra (Mr. Craig Mason)

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More photos from our Graphing Stories project.

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More photos from our Graphing Stories project.

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The 2nd place project, "Ramp Walking".

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Algebra 1 students completed their "Graphing Stories" projects. Groups were assigned a specific type of function(s) to model. Students created posters of their results and presented to the class.

The winning project, "Do a Flip."
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Magnolia Algebra 1 students took all four place winners at the Wetzel County Math Field Day competition and one of the alternates.

1st - Aubrey Warder
2nd - Parker Werkau
3rd - Jessa Anderson
4th - Carson Wade
2nd Alt. - Sidney Knight

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Algebra 1 students completed an "Exponential Growth and Decay Escape Room". Students had to build, solve, and understand key features of exponential functions to unlock each of the 5 locks and breakout.

#escaperoom
#breakout

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As we wrap up our unit on Exponential Functions before Christmas break, we will be competing in various digital "Escape Rooms" or break-out boxes through the BreakoutEDU platform. Here is a look back at our last competition.

#Breakout

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As part of our unit on Exponential Functions, Algebra 1 students completed a modified DESMOS activity comparing salary structures (Avi and Benita's Repair Shop), NCAA Tournament Brackets, and growth of savings bonds.

#DESMOS
#Exponentials

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Algebra 1 students explored exponential functions with my modified "Last Man Standing" introduction activity. Students indirectly built exponential decay functions and modeled graphically the number of survivors after each round.
#exploration
#exponentials
#cooperativelearning

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The past week Algebra 1 students began their journey in exploring systems of equations with a little competition. Students are building their own understanding of "Substitution" and "Elimination" and don't even know it.

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College Algebra students completed a formative assessment lesson on graphing polynomials from the Mathematics Assessment Project.

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"Representing Polynomials Graphically"

#formativeassessment
#SouthernRegionalEducationBoard
#cooperativelearning

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Thank you Landon Streets for picking me to wear your jersey for Homecoming Week. Good Luck Friday night!

#GoBigBlue

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College Algebra students completed the DESMOS Activity "Breakout! Polynomial Functions". Students had to solve 9 challenges to reveal the 9 puzzle pieces needed to "breakout".

Jordan Davis (in his hallway theme attire for Homecoming Week) was the first to breakout.

#DESMOS

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Homecoming Week:
Tuesday was "Neon Colors" (Freshman had orange)
Thursday was "Dress Like Your Hallway Decoration Theme" (Freshman had Glow in the Dark).

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It's Homecoming Week at Magnolia and our Algebra 1 class wanted a picture with the principals.

Monday's attire: Adam Sandler

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Algebra 1 students explored various functions and their key features using the DESMOS Online Graphing Calculator. Scenarios from tracking the flight of military missiles to tracking the temperature of a cooling cup of hot coffee.

#DESMOS
#KeyFeaturesofaGraph

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Algebra 1 students have been exploring linear equations in multiple formats (Standard Form and Slope-Intercept) and evaluating key features. Today we did "Super Mario Linear Equations" on DESMOS.

#DESMOS
#SuperMarioBros

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Challenge Winners - Match My Line and Marbleslide Challenges

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Algebra 1 students completed a hybrid DESMOS activity with “Match My Line” (slope intercept) and “Marbleslide Challenges”. The competition got intense at times with the challenges as I put the live teacher scoring on the board so students could compete for the “first blue ☑️”.