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Shaquille O'Neal Hand & Foot Span

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
If Shaquille O'Neal wears a size-20 shoe, how big are his hands? Learners will use the average ratios of foot length to hand span to calculate the hand span of Shaq, but first, they have to collect the data! They will measure their peers...
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Rocketsmania And Slope

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use a professional basketball team's data and graph it on a coordinate plane. They draw a line of regression and finding its equation. They access a website containing statistics for the Houston Rockets basketball team to solve...
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Dribbling Math Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice foot dribbling and hand dribbling with control. In addition it helps to reinforce math concepts.
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Sums & Differences

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Word problem solving and inter-galaxy football combine to offer a great worksheet for practicing adding and subtracting whole numbers! 
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Science of Special Effects

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
This is a creative, multidisciplinary, well-designed lesson provided by Scientific American related to special effects. Students make their own animated short films and use math and computer skills.
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Max's Math Adventures

For Students 5th
In these multiplication word problem worksheets, 5th graders read a poem about 'Dr. Proctor's Multiplying Machine.' Students solve the rhyme in the poem and complete several multiplication problems.
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Convert Metric Units of Capacity and Mass

For Students 5th - 6th
Use this converting metric units worksheet to have your learners solve six word problems where they covert metric units of mass and capacity in order to arrive at an answer.
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Fractional Parts of a Number

For Students 4th - 5th
In this fractional parts of a number activity, students read and solve 6 story problems that pertain to fractional parts of a whole number.
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Too Much Information

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this math practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems and identify the information that is not needed to answer each.
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Raytheon

Strategies for Solving Math Word Problems

For Students 4th - 6th
In this strategies for solving math word problems worksheet, students read two pages of examples and explanations, then solve 42 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems, answer sheet included.
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Comparing Data Displays

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
There is so much more to data than just numbers, and this resource has learners use three methods of comparing data in a multi-faceted lesson. The 21-page packet includes a warm-up, examples, an activity, and assessment for a complete...
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Basketball Caps

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work on a problem, individually or in pairs. They are asked questions that focus on average. They discus that the average number represents an equal redistribution , rather than just being able to state the rule. They write...
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Mavericks and Measurement

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students study the measurement formulas for area and perimeter in real-life situations. For this area and perimeter lesson, students design a bed and arrange furniture in a hotel room using area and perimeter formulas for a 7 1/2 foot...
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My Test Book: Addition and Subtraction

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this math skills worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice math problems that require them use their addition and subtraction skills to solve the story problems. Students may view the correct answers.
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Prime Factorization Worksheet

For Students 4th - 6th
Here's a prime factorization practice worksheet in which learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve six story problems.
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The Bigger they Are . . .

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Pupils do a variety of data analyses of real-life basketball statistics from the NBA. They chart and graph rebounding, scoring, shot blocking and steals data which are gathered from the newspaper sports section.
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Making A Horizontal Bar Graph

For Students 4th - 5th
In this bar graph instructional activity, students create a bar graph to display 6 scores from basketball games. Students will label the x and y axis and correctly plot the scores from the table provided.
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Dribbling Math

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers while working on dribbling skills. They play the role of munchers and dribblers while adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers from a deck of cards.
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Do These Add Up?

For Teachers 5th Standards
Common Core mathematical practices require that young mathematicians not only know how to add fractions with unlike denominators, but also to recognize when adding fractions are appropriate for the word problem. Fifth graders are given...
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Exploring Scale And Ratio

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students measure the actual size and distance of the solar system using scale and ratio. They watch and discuss a video, create a distance-scale solar system model, and compare the scale sizes of planets to their actual sizes.
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Tennis Ball Tubes

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners determine whether the height of a tennis ball tube or the distance around the tube is greater, or whether they are the same. Using the formula for the circumference and diameter of a sphere, they discuss the word problem, and in...
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Put Me in Order

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Sorting fractions, integers, decimals and square roots into sequential order is an active process when you use a gym as your setting. After your class is divided into two groups and provided with number cards, they compete to see who can...
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Let's Play Ball

For Students 4th - 5th
In this probability worksheet, students read about a group of students who play six games of basketball and the results. Students solve 6 word problems about the basketball games.
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Problem-Solving Application: Make a Circle Graph

For Students 5th - 6th
In this circle graphs worksheet, students analyze a data table about the activities in a day. Students then use this data to make a circle graph. Students answer 6 questions about the graph.

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