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Curated OER

Shizuko’s Daughter: Magic Square

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Vocabulary really adds up with magic squares! Using words from Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori, kids line up words and definitions to come up with the same sum across and down the square.
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EngageNY

Construct a Square and a Nine-Point Circle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Anyone can draw a square, but can you CONSTRUCT a square? Here is a resource that challenges math scholars to create steps to finish their own construction. They test their ability to read and follow directions to complete a construction...
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Curated OER

Pride and Prejudice: Magic Square Activity

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Turn Pride and Prejudice into a math activity with a magic squares lesson. Kids read nine character traits and pair them to a list of the book's characters in order to complete the activity and find the magic number.
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Lesson Plan
University of Georgia

Monohybrid Crosses and The Punnett Square Lesson Plan

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Looking for a quick, hands-on activity to teach young scientists about Punnett squares through monohybrid crosses? then check out this one.
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Balanced Assessment

Star from Square

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Quilting is not only beautiful and unique—it is a mathematical art. Show your classes how to design a quilting block while practicing area and circumference of circles. Scholars create a star from a square and then find the circumference...
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Western Kentucky University

Understanding Genetics: Punnett Squares

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Can scientists really predict genetic outcomes or are they simply making a lucky guess? Scholars first learn about Gregor Mendel and how to make Punnett squares. Then they extract DNA from a strawberry in a lab with included conclusion...
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Balanced Assessment

Square and Circle

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
To determine the dimensional change to quadruple the area, class members determine how to increase the dimensions of a square and a circle to increase the perimeter by a given factor. they then calculate the necessary factor to create...
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Printables
K-5 Math Teaching Resources

Fraction Squares

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Invite your class to demonstrate their fraction knowledge using this fraction squares printable that shows a whole divided into halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, eighths, tenths, twelfths, and sixteenths.
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EngageNY

Completing the Square (part 2)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Give classes confidence in completing the square with a resource that develops the process of completing the square of more complex problems, including fractions and values greater than one. It then uses quadratic modeling for profit and...
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Worksheet
K6 Math

Area - Square and Rectangles

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
After third and fourth graders understand how to find the area of squares and rectangles, give them this sheet for practice. There are three squares and three rectangles included here, but there isn't a ton of workspace. 
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Curated OER

Square Dances

For Students 6th - 8th
If you are teaching square dancing, this word search puzzle provides 30 related terms to locate. Definitions are not included.
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Common Core Sheets

Determining Perimeter with Square Units

For Students 3rd Standards
Third graders determine the perimeter of a shaded section by counting the number of unit squares that surround it. Each section is shaded on a small square unit grid. 
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Novelinks

The Color of Water: Word Square Instructions

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Immaculate, accumulation, dissipation. Vocabulary drawn from chapter 16 of James McBride's memoir, The Color of Water, can prove to be challenge for readers. To help kids understand the meaning of these words and what they add to the...
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Novelinks

The Joy Luck Club: Vocabulary Strategy (Magic Squares)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
As part of their study of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, readers engage in a magic squares vocabulary activity.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Completing the Square

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Determine the area of a square with quadratics. Pupils use the interactive to visualize the process of completing the square. Scholars build a square area model to represent a quadratic expression then determine the amount that needs to...
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Activity
Novelinks

Wildwood Dancing: Vocabulary Squares

For Teachers 9th - 12th
As part of a study of Juliet Marillier's Wildwood Dancing, class members create vocabulary squares for words drawn from the story.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Does Every Complex Number Have a Square Root?

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Help the class find a better way. Pupils recall finding nth roots or a complex number in polar form from a previous module to find the square root of a complex number. Using the second installment in a series of 23, scholars discover it...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Use Square Roots to Solve Quadratic Equations: Plus or Minus

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Get two answers from a single equation. Pupils use the interactive to take the square root of nine and see the graphical representation of the two solutions. Individuals realize that solutions to quadratic equations that are solved by...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Vertical Translations: Translating a Square Root Function

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
How does the equation of a function reflect translations? Scholars manipulate the starting point of the parent square root function before determining the new equations that result from the translations. Class members also determine the...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Completing the Square

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
An interactive aids in understanding of how to complete the square for a quadratic equation. A set of five challenge questions tests this understanding.
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Humanities Texas

Primary Source Worksheet: Theodore Roosevelt, Excerpt from “The Square Deal” Speech

For Students 8th - 11th
Talk about a timely resource! As part of a series of primary source exercises, individuals read and respond to questions about Theodore Roosevelt's "The Square Deal" speech. Roosevelt reminds us of what our social system should be.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Were the babies switched? – The Genetics of Blood Types

For Students 9th - 12th
Human biology or genetics learners apply their knowledge to a unique situation: two newborn baby girls being possibly switched in the hospital. The engaging activity ends with a Punnett squares assignment in which pupils evaluate whether...
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Mathed Up!

Completing the Square

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Learners review how to use the completing-the-square method to identify maximum and minimum values of a quadratic function by watching a video. They see how the vertex form relates to the extreme values of a quadratic function, and use...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Simplifying Square Roots

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Discuss the definition for a simplified form for a square root. Middle schoolers analyze different forms of a square root, the Product Property of Square Roots, and complete a worksheet.

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