Creative Graphing

The author's introduction: For decades teachers have searched for ways to motivate their students. As a math teacher for thirteen years ... I have learned that one of the easiest ways to motivate students is to get them involved with their mathematics. This means taking mathematics out of the textbook and putting it into real-life situations. With this approach students are willing to work problem after problem because it is interesting, relevant to their lives and not the traditional worksheet or textbook page approach to doing math.