Operations Amongst Radicals Enquiry Stack Activity

I've been on a query stack making ringlet lately. Okay, possibly making 2 query stacks inward the infinite of 2 days isn't a roll, but it kinda feels similar one!

After making an evaluating expressions query stack for my Algebra 1 students, I decided to brand an operations amongst radicals query stack for my Trigonometry students. We're withal inward the review chapter inward trig. My finish is to review all of the of import concepts from algebra together with geometry that we'll move using this yr inward trig. It's likewise a proficient review for my students equally they are preparing to accept or re-take the ACT exam to gain admissions to college together with earn scholarship money.

Each grouping of students received a deck of x double-sided, laminated cards. One side of each carte has a query requiring students to add, subtract, multiply, or split radicals. The other side of the carte has the reply to a dissimilar question.

Students firstly past times putting all of the cards out on their desks amongst the answers facing up. This forms their reply banking venture for the residual of the activity. As they run out each problem, their reply banking venture volition shrink. This makes this action self-checking which lets me focus on providing deal to the groups that actually bespeak it.

Each grouping starts past times turning over i of the cards. They either create upward one's hear to run this occupation out on their dry out erase boards or inward their notebooks. I allow students choose. They ordinarily know what plant best for them. Some students prefer the permanency of writing do problems inward their notebooks. Other students prefer the eraseable nature of the white boards that allow them accept risks inward their occupation solving.

The reply they larn far at volition *hopefully* move inward the reply bank. If it is, they selection upward this card, plough it over, together with add together it to the query stack. This procedure continues until they take away keep worked through the entire deck.

The construction of this action leads to some awesome conversations betwixt students. I dear to simply walk unopen to together with hear to them explaining math to learn other. It actually is a beautiful thing.

I made a template that makes it pretty tardily to brand a query stack for whatsoever topic. Here's what it looks like:

Here are the operations amongst radicals problems I created for my trig students to run through:

I had to pose boxes unopen to the questions since the questions together with answers tin await together with thence similar!

I've uploaded the files for action here. Special cheers to my husband, Shaun, for working out all of the answers for me to cheque my work!