Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Let's Review
Revisit, Revisit, Revisit! Students need repeated exposure to math concepts to really understand how they work.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using a Pattern to Solve a Problem
Patterns are prevalent in all levels of math. Common Core Standards expect students to be able to use structure - like that found in repeating the patterns of odd and even numbers or counting by 5s or 10s - to solve problems (MP7).
ABCya
Ab Cya: Swimming Otters Algebra
Swimming Otters Algebra is an educational multi-player racing activity for kids to practice algebraic expressions. How quickly the student correctly answers the algebra problem determines how quickly the race car will go. The student...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Algebra Plus: Targeted Math Instruction
Algebra lesson focuses on using patterns and relationships to write equations with two variables to represent relationships and patterns in real-world problems, plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate grid, and interpreting the meaning of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Algebra: Targeted Math Instruction
This Algebra lesson plan focuses on writing algebraic expressions to represent real-world problems, using the properties of numbers to simplify expressions, and evaluating equations by isolating the variable.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grades 9 12 Math Teacher Library
As part of Louisiana Department of Education's teacher support toolbox library, this page contains the 9-12 Math resources.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Solving Rational Inequalities
Demonstrates the factor-table method for solving rational inequalities.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Quartiles, Boxes, and Whiskers
Explains how to construct a simple box-and-whisker plot, and demonstrates the steps. Discusses quartiles and medians, shows how to find them, and explains how they relate to box-and-whisker plots.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Ratios
Explains the basic terminology and formatting of ratios, and demonstrates how to solve typical exercises.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Stem and Leaf Plots
Explains how to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a data set. Demonstrates how to format a clear stem-and-leaf plot.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Venn Diagrams
Introduces the basic terminology of Venn diagrams, and shows how to "populate" and read Venn diagrams.
Other
Chili Math: Adding and Subtracting Fractions With Different Denominators
Goes through the steps involved in adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators and provides examples.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Soccer Stadium: Changing Numbers
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario on a soccer field. Those skills include creating numbers for a number pattern, creating patterns using manipulatives, and using diagrams to...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Number Patterns
On this interactive website, students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario at a fashion store. Those skills include creating number patterns, making a number sentence to represent a word problem, and making a table of...
Help Algebra
Help algebra.com: Synthetic Division
Synthetic division is thoroughly explained using long division as a starting point. The examples are very detailed and provide the steps necessary for completing the process of synthetic division.
NASA
Nasa: Al Khorezmi and the Dawn of Algebra
At this site from NASA you can read about Al-Khawarizmi (also known as al-Kwarismi or al-Khorezmi) and his significant role in the early study of algebra.
George Mason University
Lesson Plans: Whole Number Algorithms Base Ten Blocks
Brief lesson plans that show how to use base ten blocks to do all four operations and a little bit of algebra.
Math.com
Math.com: The Language of Algebra Unit Quiz
The algebra unit quiz consists of eight true or false questions. Solutions are provided.
Harvey Mudd College
Mudd Math Fun Facts: Pascal's Triangle
This tutorial defines and and demonstrates Pascal's triangle.
Harvey Mudd College
Mudd Math Fun Facts: Magic Squares, Indeed!
This tutorial provides a definition and examples of a "magic square" and then shows a proof and generalizations.
Harvey Mudd College
Mudd Math Fun Facts: Difference of Squares
Using algebra, learn how to do fast math in your head!
Harvey Mudd College
Mudd Math Fun Facts: Squares Ending in 5
This math tutorial features an exercise in which you are given any two-digit number that ends in 5 and then square it in your head.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Mathworld: Trinomial
This MathWorld site defines trinomials. Includes a definition and links to related topics.
Rice University
Galileo Project: Christoff Rudolff
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides ten fields of biographical data which are compiled for you. The fields of data collected include, but are not limited to, dates (birth/death), father (occupation/wealth),...