Integrated Math III · Week 14 · Polynomial, Rational, and Radical Relationships
Rates Working Together
Work rate problems: how teams finish faster together.
- Students will
- Students write and solve rational equations to find how long people working together take to finish a job.
- SEL skill
- Explain your part of a team calculation and listen to your partner's part
- What it looks like
- Students practice cooperating by combining strengths and sharing the workload fairly.
- Content focus
- Rational equations and work rates
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean communicating clearly, listening well, and working together so everyone's contribution counts. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- A-CED.1: High School Algebra: Creating Equations, standard 1
- A-REI.2: High School Algebra: Reasoning with Equations and Inequalities, standard 2
- Standard for Mathematical Practice: MP4 Model with mathematics
- CA Mathematics Framework (2023): Exploring Changing Quantities
- Traditional course: Algebra II
Fits these textbook chapters
- CCSS Integrated Pathway Mathematics III, Unit 2B: Rational and Radical Relationships
- Carnegie Learning Integrated Math III, Module 2: Developing Structural Similarities
- CPM Core Connections Integrated III, Chapter 3: Solving and Inequalities
- CPM Core Connections Integrated III, Chapter 11: Rational Expressions and Systems
- Savvas enVision Integrated Mathematics III, Topic 3: Rational Functions
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More relationship skills activities for Integrated Math III
- Inverse Functions and Repair Relationship skillsInverses undo operations; repair undoes harm.
- Combining Functions Relationship skillsAdding cost and revenue functions to plan a class fundraiser.
- Modeling Project: Plan Relationship skillsTeams choose a community question and plan data collection.
- Modeling Project: Analyze Relationship skillsTeams analyze data and resolve disagreements about interpretation.
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