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Completing Simple Tax Forms

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice filling out IRS 1040 EZ forms. They discuss various ways people pay taxes. They assess the importance of W-2 forms and apply skills using the IRS tax table to compute how much money is owed or returned.
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Measurement: Cylinders

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Math scholars observe and demonstrate how to calculate the surface area and volume of cylinders. They analyze pictures of various cylinders on a handout, solve problems on two worksheets independently, and discuss the answers to the...
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Adding and Subtracting Algebraic Expressions (Combining Like Terms)

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Everyone loves math when it includes food! This lesson tries to take the notion of combining like terms in algebra and comparing it to sorting apples and oranges. It takes a step-by-step approach to helping students understand this...
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High, Low, or In Between?

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
Trios play a card game that reinforces the concepts of number sequence and greater than and less than. Scholars make predictions based on information they know and a single unknown. They see cards drawn by others in the group, but not...
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Simplifying Algebraic Expressions

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Sixth and seventh graders explore the concept of simplifying algebraic expressions. They review the order of operations and apply properties to simplify and compare them. The author suggests using a "Boxes Game" as a motivator to get...
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Length, Perimeter, and Area

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the concepts of length, perimeter, and area. In this math lesson, students use Shape Explorer to practice finding length, perimeter, and area.
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Square Roots Using a Carpenter's Square

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars calculate the square root of a given number using carpenter's square measurements. In this math lesson plan, students relate this method on the Pythagorean theorem. They answer practice problems after the exploration...
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Analyzing Discrete and Continuous Data in a Spreadsheet

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
You are what you eat! Your statisticians keep a log of what they eat from anywhere between a day to more than a week, keeping track of a variety of nutritional information using a spreadsheet. After analyzing their own data, individuals...
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Adding with Different Numbers of Digits

For Students 3rd - 5th
Expand addition concepts by challenging your pupils with these multi-digit addends. They add up numbers with up to seven digits, regrouping where needed. The first six are written vertically and the next two are horizontal. Make...
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Grade 5 Fractions Word Problems

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Young mathematicians apply their fractions skills in the real world with this simple word problem worksheet.
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They Cost Peanuts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Save pennies on your peanuts. Scholars first examine a picture of a supermarket display showing salted peanuts sold by the pound and by the bag. They apply the idea of unit rate to determine which is cheaper.
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Salads

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Use a PowerPoint presentation to introduce the classifications for salads in our culture. Viewers take notes and then work through the ratio of ingredients in a vinaigrette salad dressing. Finally, they mix up the vinaigrette. This...
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GPS Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers go on a GPS scavenger hunt. They use GPS receivers to find designated waypoints and report back on what they found. They compute distances between waypoints based on the latitude and longitude, and compare with the...
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How to Implement Project Based Learning to Engage Students

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Can a math teacher employ project-based learning? Learn how one great math teacher uses PBL to design math projects that provide learners with a more challenging and holistic learning experience. A wonderful article, that includes three...
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Art Class, Variation 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Given a set of six paint mix ratios, artistic mathematicians produce an equation that relates the number of parts for blue paint to parts for yellow paint resulting new shades of green. 
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Problem Solving---A Part of Everyday Thinking

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students demonstrate knowledge of the six basic steps to problem solving. They demonstrate ability to apply these six basic steps to problem solving by guiding other students in the solution of a given problem or set of problems.
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Studying for a Test

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers calculate the probability of compound events. They solve the problem using a tree, list of formulas and explain what was done and why it was done. Students develop the following skills in order to determine, describe...
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Subtracting Monomials and Polynomials

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students subtract monomials and polynomials by combining like terms. In this advanced subtraction lesson, students define the rules and properties for subtraction of polynomials. They apply the rules for addition to help with the rules...
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Where Are We?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use Cartesian coordinates or degrees of latitude and longitude to locate important locations within their specific countries. They Use a grid to apply the concept of latitude and longitude, or positive and negative Cartesian...
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Charts and Graphs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders interpret data into graphs and percentages.  In this organizing data lesson, 5th graders discuss bar, circle and line graphs.  Students complete bar graph and apply probability using the results.
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Automobile-Accident Reconstruction

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate an accident and relate it to math. In this trigonometry lesson, students measure the accident scene, the friction produced, and the speed from the skid marks. They create a poster of their findings.
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Let the Sun Shine In: Energy Conservation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create a project applying their math skills as they discuss energy conservation. In this geometry lesson, students define vocabulary relating to the environment and energy conservation. They construct a building that allow lots...
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Fractions in Everyday Life

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students apply understanding of fractions by converting a recipe to feed the class and the whole grade level. They calculate how many cookies the class would eat and multiply each fraction in the recipe accordingly.
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Intuitive Approach to Limits

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students identify and comprehend the concept of limit in mathematics. They also view artistic works illustrating limits by M. C. Escher and apply techniques of one-sided limits to graphs of relations. Finally, students compute limits...

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