Welcome back Grade 10s!

Grade 10s worked on visual patterns today. Many of them did this kind of task with me in grade 9 last year, so we were remembering what we knew, and making connections to quadratic patterning which is new this year.

Students worked on remembering their modelling skills from last year. We had so many representations!

we worked on going directly to an equation from the pattern, since the table of values told us it was not linear, we needed a new approach.

We did quite a few examples to practice our new skills

our final task of the day was to tackle this question, to find out for which figure number the perimeters are the same.

We had lots of students making tables and comparing, but then we used our new tools (magnetic graphing grids) to draw on the whiteboards with more precision.

this is a nice introduction to solving systems graphically, which we will be doing a lot over the next few weeks.

We’ve got a lot of enthusiasm and energy on day 1 which bodes well for the future.