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Illustrative Mathematics: Alike or Different Game
Students work in pairs and take turns drawing two cards. These cards have pictures of different shapes. The students are asked to describe what is similar or different between the two shapes. This type of task lays the foundation for the...
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Illustrative Mathematics: Teen Go Fish
Students will play "Go Fish" using teen numbers to practice identifying these numbers.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Rainbow Number Line
The teacher will prepare number lines for the young scholars to trace. These number lines can be taped to the desk to be used for number recognition, sequencing, counting, "number forward", and "number backward" activities. An example is...
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Parallel Lines in the Coordinate Plane
The goal of this task is to prove the slope criterion for parallel lines. Aligns with HSG-GPE.B.5.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe When Are Two Lines Perpendicular?
The goal of this task is to examine when two lines in the plane are perpendicular in terms of their slopes. Aligns with HSG-GPE.B.5.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Scaling a Triangle in the Coordinate Plane
The goal of this task is to apply dilations to a triangle in the coordinate plane. Students will need to find the coordinates of a point which cuts a given segment into one third and into two thirds. The two dilated triangles share a...
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, N Rn, F Tf Coordinates of Equilateral Triangles
In this task, students are asked if there is an equilateral triangle ABC where two vertices are on the x-axis, and all vertices have integer coordinates. Aligns with G-GPE.B, N-RN.B, and F-TF.C.9.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Squares on a Coordinate Grid
The purpose of this task is to use the Pythagorean Theorem and knowledge about quadrilaterals in order to construct squares of different sizes on a coordinate grid. Aligns with G-GPE.B.7.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Defining Parabolas Geometrically
The purpose of this task is to show that the points on a parabola can be characterized by being equidistant from a point (the focus) and a line (the directrix). Aligns with HSG-GPE.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Goodie Bags
Pairs of students will compare 3 quantities and order them from least to greatest. Students will select a pre-filled baggie and sort and count the contents. They will then arrange each group in order from least to most. This activity can...
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Illustrative Mathematics: Which Number Is Greater? Which Number Is Less?
The teacher will show the class two groups of objects or drawings of objects for the students to compare using greater than/less than language. Students will discuss in pairs how they know which number is greater or less than the other...
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Illustrative Mathematics: The Napping House
The teacher reads "The Napping House" to the class, stopping each time a person or animal gets into the bed so the students can add a counter to the ten-frame. Ten-Frame printable is included.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Number Rods
This activity gives young scholars practice counting for meaning using unifix cubes or snap cubes. Students will count the number of unifix cubes then match the rod up to the correct number on a number line. Extension activities are...
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe a Midpoint Miracle
In this task, students are asked to draw a quadrilateral so that no two sides are congruent, no two angles are congruent, and no two sides are parallel. The task gives students the opportunity to prove that if we join the midpoints of a...
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, F Tf Coordinates of Points on a Circle
For this task, young scholars are shown a unit circle in a plane and an angle measured from the x-axis. They must determine the coordinates of the line segment for the angle and answer a question about the sum of the coordinates. The...
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Triangle Perimeters
Students are shown two triangles touching points on a coordinate grid and are asked to answer questions about their perimeters. The purpose of this task is to apply the Pythagorean theorem to calculate distances and areas. Aligns with...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.3 and a rei.d.12: Fishing Adventures 3
During this illustrated lesson, learners will write and solve inequalities, and they will represent their solutions graphically. Aligns with A-CED.A.3 and A-REI.D.12.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.1 & a rei.d.1: Intro. To Polynomials: College
This task serves as an introduction to polynomials or as an application after students are familiar with exponential functions. Aligns with A-REI.D.11.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.c.7 & a rei.d.10: A Linear and Quadratic System
The purpose of this task is to give young scholars the opportunity to make connections between equations and the geometry of the graphs. Aligns with A-REI.C.7and A-REI.D.10.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.c.6: Find a System
The purpose of this task is to encourage students to think critically about both the algebraic and graphical interpretation of systems of linear equations. Aligns with A-REI.C.6.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.d.10: Collinear Points
This task leads young scholars through a series of problems which illustrate a crucial interplay between algebra and geometry. Aligns with A-REI.D.10.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.c.6: Accurately Weighing Pennies I
In this problem, students will use the number of decimal places in the coefficients to motivate writing and solving a system of equations. Aligns with A-REI.C.6.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.b.4.a: Visualizing Completion of the Square
The purpose of this visualization task is to help provide geometric intuition for the algebraic process called ''completing the square.'' Aligns with HSA-REI.B.4.a.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.b: Integer Solutions to Inequality
This task provides an instance of illustrating cluster without being limited to only linear equalities. Aligns with A-REI.B.