Introduction
The evil mastermind Crypto is at it again. He has stolen several rare documents from the Museum of Math Artifacts and the Math Bureau of Investigation (MBI) has been asked to help locate the missing pieces. They are very rare and very valuable as they trace the development of some of the most important concepts in mathematics that the world has seen.
Your teacher has worked on several cases with the MBI in the past and now needs your assistance. You are going to play double duty over the next few classes as you learn about integers as well as help break some coded messages sent by Crypto. With hard work and some good math skills you will help locate the missing artifacts.
Task
There are five tasks (listed under process) to complete as you learn about integers. Each task includes something that you must submit and a message to decode. Task 5 is the final task in which you must create an integer game.
Anything document that is in your Google Drive Group Folder will need to be completed and turned in to Google Classroom by the due date for a grade.
Process
Task #1: What are integers and how are they used?
Go to the graphic organizer in your shared group folder on Google Drive and complete the organizer.
Check out this explanation of integers.
Here is a PowerPoint that may help you complete the graphic organizer.
Use this application to investigate opposites. Choose number line then go to page 4. You can also use a number line to go along with this activity.
We always want to know "Where will we use this in real-life?" Check out some uses of integers.
Crypto has hidden four math artifacts at his mansion. The MBI has found directions for locating each artifact but the directions are in code. Complete the TASK #1 paper in your Google Drive to decode the location of the first artifact, a document named the "History of Pi".
Task #2: Coordinate Graphing
Some of you may remember graphing on a coordinate plane from previous years. Coordinate graphing is an application of integers. The following allows you to review and practice coordinate graphing before decoding the clue for the location of the next hidden math treasure, "The Tessellation Tale."
Check out this introduction to the coordinate plane.
Try the Graph Mole game. Begin with the medium version then move to the harder version. Be quick; don't let the mole make a laughing stock of you!
Take a few minutes and play the Homer Simpson game. Please make sure to turn the sound low.
Now it's time to decode the clue that will lead the MBI to "The Tessellation Tale." This math treasure contains diagrams of some early Roman and Greek tessellation tile patterns.
Complete the Task #2 Clue in your Google Drive folder.
Evaluation
You will be evaluated on the completed sheets that are in your Google Drive folder. All of the sheets that need to be handed in are found in your shared Group Google Drive Folder. The major portion of your grade for this webquest will come from the evaluation of the integer game that you complete in a group of four. Detailed information on this project and a grading rubric are found under Task #5.