A Couple of Unit 4 FRQs arranged for Remote Learning

As we've been working through a couple of weeks of remote learning, I put together two more FRQs for Unit 4 for us to use in breakout rooms. These are all available on the College Board's website, I just find it easier to have the all of the pages I want my students to use in one document and in the order I want them to be seen. Both of these FRQs start with the question, then the rubric, then the 3 student samples. 

My students work on them in breakout rooms and then we come back together and discuss the score they thought each sample essay should get. 

Here they are:

2013 #8 on the signal transduction pathway

2015 #5 on Phototropism

Desmos Activities for Precalculus Polynomial and Rational Functions

Made by Desmos.com

We came so close to finishing the first quarter face to face, but had to transition to remote learning for a week and a half starting on the last day of the quarter. Fortunately, I had been preparing my classes for this from the beginning of the year. They have been scanning and submitting all of their work in Google Classroom and we have been using Desmos on a regular basis. I would use Desmos wether we were face to face or remote, but I love Desmos even more when we have to go to remote learning. 

I found some great activity builders on Desmos for this unit that I didn't have last year. I even went to a virtual math seminar on using the computational layer in Desmos to add special elements to Desmos Activity Builder this past weekend and tried my hand at it for an activity we did this week. I must confess I made a couple of mistakes that my students helped me to realize and fix as we did it. It's not fancy, but it gave my students the group practice I wanted them to have with graphing rational functions with slant asymptotes. 

Here's the link to my whole collection: Precalculus Unit 3

Here are the individual activities:

Polynomial Equation Challenges

Constructing Polynomials

Polygraph: Polynomials (My students LOVE polygraphs!)

Polygraph: Rational Functions

What's Your End Behavior

Sketching Polynomials...without Desmos

Polynomials and Roots

Horizontal and Slant Asymptotes (I love the use of "which one doesn't belong" in this activity.)

Graphing Rational Functions (This is my creation...not fancy, but it accomplished what I was looking for.)