Math blog post
This week we finished and presented our projects for math 9. Maggie and I did our project showing how you can find polynomials in a common environment. Our common environment was the grocery store. Maggie and I decided to show how like terms can be collected when you “stalk the store.” Our plan was to make a floor plan layout like a store, and put the paper cut outs, of food, in there rightful spots.
We glued down a bunch onto there spots, and then left a about half to answer. The way the questions worked is, you would grab a paper cutout of food from the basket (which ranged from rice to yogurt) and on the back of this cutout there would be a polynomial question.
The questions included, plus, minus, decimals, fractions, exponents, and variables. The next challenge is to combine like terms and figure out the answer to the question on the back. Once you’ve answered the question, figure out what category your piece of food belongs to. There are 6 categories, baked goods, fruits and veggies, dry goods, meat, dairy products, and cold goods. Pick which category your food goes into, and then within the category look for your answer, once you find the answer put the food so it covers the answer, and then you move onto another food cutout!
Within our game we covered all the important factors of polynomials, such as variables,
constants,
and coefficients.
We discussed these concepts before diving in, and showed how they make up the base of a polynomial equation. We then showed how this game was a good example of collecting like terms in our day to day life.
Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed Maggie and I’s game
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