PowerPoint Games

Here are some wonderful game templates (for PowerPoint) where all you need to do is input your own Q and A. These are templates for Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Hollywood Squares and more.

Or instead of creating a review game for your students, why not have your students create their own. This would make a great end of the year project – assign pairs of students different units. Try and assign students the units you know they had a little trouble with. That way, they get a little extra review in before those dreaded exams, and on top of that, when the projects are turned in, you should have enough different review games for the rest of the year! And if you’re lucky, you may just get some that are keepers for future years as well!

Pendulum Dance

This is an absolutely amazing video. Fifteen pendulums, each with a period of one swing more per minute than the previous pendulum, produces magnificent designs from snakes to spirals to near chaos and back to a swinging line once again. What would be interesting is to see the graphs of each position in time of all the pendulums – this would have to be 3 dimensional, with pendulum number, distance from center and time. Or with a sinusoidal equation. I’m wondering what to do with this in regards to middle school students, and what could be seen on a two dimensional graph. I can’t think of anything. Here’s the video Krulwich Wonders: A Pendulum Dance

Free Algebra Worksheets

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