CQ's+Lesson+Plans

These are the lesson plans I used for my class - some of them anyway. More will be coming. Teaching this class was a very different experience for me. It took a lot of work and really changed how I thought about teaching math. My goals with these lesson plans were to: (a) Write lesson plans that I could print off and use in my own class (b) Share how one instructor structured & presented the material (c) Post data sets & worksheets for others to steal

-Chris Quarles





__Lesson Plan 1 - Linear Equations__ (To be included in summer. This lesson plan revolved around analyzing & graphing the costs of a coffee stand. As students were interested in talking about profit, we then moved into a longer discussion about revenue, profit, and cost.) Clark - Section 1.1, 1.3, 1.4 (Next time: Spend more time on interpreting slope in words. This idea was particularly hard for them.)

__Lesson Plan 2 - Linear Modeling__

Clark - Section 1.2, 1.5 (partially), 1.6 (partially)

__Lesson Plan 3 - Finding Linear Equations__ Clark - Section 1.4

__Lesson Plan 4 - Working With Excel/Prep for Project 1__ Clark - Section 1.6 (partially)

__Lesson Plan 5 - Nonlinear Models__ This is a supplementary activity for material the book does not cover. There is a lesson plan, and worksheet to be handed out to each student.

__Lesson Plan 6 - Functions__ Clark - Section 1.7

__Lesson Plan 7 - Exponents__ Clark - Section 3.1

__Lesson Plan 8 - Combining Functions__ Clark - Section 3.2