Google
Google for Education: Correlation vs Causation
In this lesson, students will test the strength of a correlation and discern whether or not a law or conclusion can be made based on that correlation. Students will see the threshold commonly accepted for correlating data and test their...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Exploring Cavalieri's Principle
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students use the geometry program GeoGebra to explore Cavalieri's Principle, specifically to investigate whether it applies when calculating the volume of oblique solids. Lesson includes...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Reflections, Rotations, and Translations
This task uses GeoGebra software, which can be freely downloaded, to explore what happens to the line segments and angles of a triangle when it is reflected, rotated, and translated. Includes printable task sheet for students and a...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Points Equidistant From Two Points in the Plane
In this task, students are shown a line segment that is bisected at a right angle by a second line. They are asked to prove statements about this geometric construction. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that can be used by the instructor to...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G C Similar Circles
In this task, students are asked to show that all circles are similar using two different methods, a visual one and an algebraic one. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that can be used by the instructor to demonstrate the material. Aligns...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Explaining the Equation for a Circle
This problem examines equations defining different circles in the x-y plane. Students must use the Pythagorean Theorem to find equations whose solutions are points on the circle and explain why they work. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Building a Quadratic Function From F(x) = X^2
This is the first of a series of tasks aiming at understanding the quadratic formula in a geometric way in terms of the graph of a quadratic function. Here the student works with an explicit function and studies the impact of additive...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Identifying Even and Odd Functions
In this task, students are presented with four functions and must determine whether each is odd, even, or neither. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that can be used by the instructor to demonstrate the material. Aligns with F-BF.B.3.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Kitchen Floor Tiles
The purpose of this task about tiling a kitchen floor is to give students practice in reading, analyzing, and constructing algebraic expressions, attending to the relationship between the form of an expression and the context from which...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Find the Angle
In this task, 8th graders have to reason with angles and angle measurements, including the sum of the angles in a triangle, to deduce information from a picture. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that the teacher can use for demonstration...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Congruent Triangles
In this task, 8th graders investigate congruence and transformations of two triangles on a coordinate grid. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that the teacher can use for demonstration purposes. Aligns with 8.G.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Why Does Sss Work?
In this task, students must show that two triangles are congruent given a set of steps which produce a rigid transformation of the plane. Includes an experimental GeoGebra worksheet that instructors can use to demonstrate the task....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: g.co Bisecting an Angle
In this task, students practice bisecting an angle. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that teachers can use to demonstrate the task. Aligns with G-CO.D.12.