Activating Activities Assignment

Jarrett Beck
Class: Grade 10 Introduction to Pre-Calculus and Applied
Mathematics
Unit: Number Sense
Specific Learning Outcomes:
10I.A.1. Demonstrate an
understanding of factors of
whole numbers by
determining

prime factors
greatest common factor
least common multiple
square root
cube root

10I.A.2. Demonstrate an
understanding of irrational
numbers by
representing, identifying,
and simplifying irrational
numbers
ordering irrational
numbers

10I.A.3. Demonstrate an understanding of powers with integral

and rational exponents.
This learning outcome offers the opportunity to expose students
to scientific notation.
Unit Outline
Assessm
ent
Unit Test

Rationale

This is the traditional pen-and-paper unit test. It is

important to develop students test writing skills,
particularly in the pre-calculus stream, as they will
be required to write a provincial exam in grade 12.
Many universities expect our students to be
prepared for this type of assessment.
Number
I will have students create cards for specific integer
Cards
and irrational numbers. On this card they will record
Booklet
facts about the number including its prime factors,
greatest common factor, least common multiple,
square and cube. The cards will be ordered by their
position on the number line.
Scientific I will have students create a poster where they have
Scale
images attached to a scientific notation scale. They
Poster
will be required to range across common degrees of
scale, from 10-9 to 1012.

Activating Activities
Activating Strategies
Number Facts Game
Put a number on the board.
Have the students, as a
class, give facts about that
number.

Purpose
The goal of this is to have the
students practice recalling
number facts quickly as a group.
The affective objective is to have
the students feel that even

though they may not personally

know a particular fact as a class
they are capable.
Scientific Scale
The goal of the scientific scale
Present pictures of objects of activation strategy is to have the
vastly different scales, have
students associate objects with
the students guess the scale their relevant scales. Although
magnitude in scientific
students may appear to
notation along with the
understand the relevant
associated unit of
exponent laws associated with
measurement. This can be
scientific notation I feel that they
done as a group or
often lack a concrete
individually. The actual scales understanding of objects
of the object will be revealed associated with various scales.
before the end of the period. This will also serve as a way for
the students to get an idea about
what kind of objects they would
like to include in their scientific
scale poster.
Number Line Mental Math Having the students represent
The students will have a
numbers in a non-traditional
mental math sheet where
fashion will encourage them to
they will have to fill in
think about the factors at play in
multiple blank spots on a
the composition of a number. An
number line, but with nonexample of this would be instead
traditional representations of of 3 writing 3 27 or instead of 2
a number that include either
1 1
decomposition into factors or writing 2 . Becoming familiar
manipulations of exponent
with these alternate
laws.
This will also require students representations will help them on
their unit test with quickly
to place familiar irrational
numbers on the number line. identifying prime factors as well
as manipulating algebra
involving exponents.