{"id":224,"date":"2016-10-03T18:11:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T23:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2016-10-10T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T01:20:12","slug":"transformations-headband-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parentfunction.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/transformations-headband-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformations Headband Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the summer I was working on curriculum for a new course, Algebraic Reasoning, that I am teaching a section of this year. \u00a0I knew that I wanted to do lots of activities with these students, who typically struggle with math. \u00a0I came across an activity that mentioned the game Hedbanz<\/a>. \u00a0Unfortunately, I don’t remember where I saw the activity, so I don’t know who to give credit to.<\/p>\n

I have never played the game Hedbanz, but the general gist is that you put a card in a headband and must ask yes\/no questions to figure out what is on your card.<\/p>\n

I bought some twelve packs of headbands from the dollar store and created cards for function transformations. \u00a0My plan\u00a0was that students would work in pairs. \u00a0Student A would tell Student B\u00a0the parent function and the transformations from the parent function so that Student B could write the equation that was in his\/her\u00a0headband, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

After graphing transformations of linear, absolute value, and quadratic functions, I gave a quiz on transformations. \u00a0The quizzes were terrible. \u00a0I had to rethink how I would use the planned activity.<\/p>\n

I made new\u00a0cards<\/a>\u00a0(printed on Avery business cards for convenience). \u00a0This time I put the transformations on the back of the card. \u00a0So now, Student A would tell Student B the a, b, h, and k parameters for the transformations. \u00a0Then Student B would identify the transformations for his\/her card, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

The activity worked wonderfully. \u00a0My inclusion teacher and I were able to spot check pairs of students to make sure that the students were correctly identifying a, b, h, and k for their partner.<\/p>\n

At the end of class, I gave a requiz on transformations. \u00a0They were so much better. \u00a0This activity is definitely a keeper. \u00a0In addition, I may use the activity next year in my Algebra 2 class, as I had originally planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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