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Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
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PPT
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Texas Gateway: Atoms, Elements and the Periodic Table: The Atomic Model [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow looking at the contributions of scientists over time to our understanding of atomic theory. Looks at models of the atom developed by Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, and James Chadwick, as...
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Texas Gateway: Conservation of Mass It's the Law!

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes videos, interactives, and additional resources to help students understand the law of conservation of mass and how to balance chemical equations.
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Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements and Using Formulas: Surface Area

For Students 7th - 8th
Given application problems involving lateral or total surface area the student will estimate measurements and solve the problems.
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Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements and Using Formulas: Volume

For Students 7th - 8th
Given application problems involving volume, the student will estimate measurements and solve the problems.
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Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements/using Models and Formulas: 3 D Figures

For Students 7th - 8th
Given application problems involving 3-dimensional figures, the student will estimate measurements, including surface area and/or volume, then solve the problems.
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Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements: Area

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problem situations, students will be able to estimate and solve for area of polygons and other shapes.
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Texas Gateway: Evaluating Methods of Sampling From a Set of Data

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a problem situation, the student will evaluate a method of sampling to determine the validity of an inference made from the set of data.
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Texas Gateway: Evaluating Solutions for Reasonableness

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problem situations, the student will determine if the solutions are reasonable.
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Texas Gateway: Exploring Probability With Dependent Events

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
The student will investigate and develop the concept of dependent probability, including formalizing procedures related to dependent probability and applications of dependent probability.
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Texas Gateway: Expressing Numbers in Scientific Notation

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problem situations, the student will express numbers in scientific notation.
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Texas Gateway: Finding the Probabilities of Dependent and Independent Events

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given problem situations, the student will find the probability of the dependent and independent events.
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Texas Gateway: Generalizing About Populations From Random Samples

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a population with known characteristics, students will be able to use a variety of methods to generate random samples of the same size in order to understand how a random sample is representative of a population.
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Texas Gateway: Generalizing Proportions From Similar Figures

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a pair of similar figures, including dilations, students will be able to generalize that the lengths of corresponding sides are proportional.
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Texas Gateway: Generating Different Representations of Relationships

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problems that include data, the student will generate different representations, such as a table, graph, equation, or verbal description.
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Texas Gateway: Graphing Dilations, Reflections, and Translations

For Students 8th Standards
Given a coordinate plane, the student will graph dilations, reflections, and translations, and use those graphs to solve problems.
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Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Interactive Math Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
The Interactive Math Glossary is provided by the Texas Education Agency to help teachers explore and understand mathematics vocabulary.
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Texas Gateway: Selecting and Using Appropriate Forms of Rational Numbers

For Students 6th - 8th
Given real-life problems, the student will select an appropriate method and solve problems involving proportional relationships.
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Texas Gateway: Solutions of Simultaneous Equations

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Given a graph of two simultaneous equations, students will be able to interpret the intersection of the graphs as the solution to the two equations.
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Texas Gateway: Solving Problems That Include Fractions and Decimals

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Given problem situations, the student will use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve problems involving positive and negative fractions and decimals.
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Texas Gateway: Translations

For Students 7th - 9th
These activities provide an opportunity for students to explore translations both on and off of a coordinate plane.
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Texas Gateway: Using Logical Reasoning to Prove Statements Are True

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given statements about a geometric relationship, the student will distinguish between the undefined terms, definitions, postulates, conjectures, and theorems to prove the statements are true.
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Texas Gateway: Using Models to Solve Equations

For Students 6th - 8th
Given a problem, the student will use concrete and pictorial models to solve equations and use symbols to record their actions.
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Texas Gateway: Using Multiplication by a Constant Factor

For Students 6th - 8th
Given problems involving proportional relationships, the student will use multiplication by a constant factor to solve the problems.