A Graphing Matter

Show your middle school, pre-algebra, and algebra students fun and real world applications of variables and relationships. In A Graphing Matter, comical and sometimes irreverent scenarios introduce intriguing activities like "A Hare Raising Expose", "Dr. Olivo’s Hairy Eyeball Theory" and "Sweatered Fish of the Deep."

Activities engage students with concrete problems and experiments in which variables represent quantities they can see and measure. Students collect graph and analyze data and discover patterns and relationships between variables. They write equations and hypothesize about how changing the experiment would change the look of the graph.

These informal explorations of graphs and equations provide a bridge between the concrete and the abstract building a foundation for more formal operations in algebra. Your students will find it hard to stop graphing once they’re hooked by these activities.