6th - 12th Grade: Math

Create a portfolio of the work you have done so far this year.
- Choose a problem from your classwork, homework, or quiz or test from a previous unit and re-do the problem to showcase the math and your thinking.
- Show and explain each step clearly.
- If possible, use multiple representations: table, graph, words, equation.
- By the end of each week, you should have three problems written up that illustrate some of your learning from this year.
Ask a family member or a friend for a number (or two or three or four numbers). Create three math problems that have that number as a solution.
Online
- Create an entry for the Desmos Global Math Art Contest (students aged 13–18 only, entry must be submitted by parent or teacher)
- Investigate a Data Story on tuvalabs.com
- (High school students) Interpret an infographic in an online newspaper. What do you notice? What do you wonder? What point do you think the creator of the graph is trying to make? For example, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/learning/whats-going-on-in-this-graph-voters-by-age-group.html
- (High school students) Play Daily Desmos! Pick a graph from the gallery and reproduce it in Desmos. (You can use the Desmos App on your phone.)
Search for a graph that represents something in the real world. Write a few sentences describing what the graph shows. Be sure to describe the variables (look at the axes). Here are some sentence frames you might choose to use:
- “I notice…”
- “I think this graph is saying that if___ then___ . I think this because I see___.”
- “I wonder ___.”
- “This graph makes me think about…”
- Challenge: Pick two graphs and say how these two graphs are similar and different.
  - “These graphs both say___ because___.”
  - “The difference in these two graphs is ___.”
Find a graph that is modeling growth. Describe how the model helps us see how this data seems to grow. (Algebra 1, Algebra 2)
- Use words and phrases like: linear growth, exponential growth, growing by adding, growing by multiplying, starting number
- Repeat for a graph modeling decay!