Do you want to incorporate an activity to reinforce students’ understanding about graphing inequalities? This activity will allow your students to apply their knowledge of inequalities, and apply it to a real world application. Students will be able to analyze a specific storm of their choice from The Weather Channel, and find the best equation that models the movement of a storm. Desmos is a free software where students can enter equations of their choice and analyze the graph of the expression. They will instantly see how the graph looks like after typing the equation. Students will be able to explore and find out how changing a constant or a variable can make a change. This resource is free and useful for student to familiarize themselves with different graphs.

Lesson Plan math-lesson-chasing-the-storm