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Calculator Count to 1000
Students develop an understanding that large numbers are made up of smaller ones. They develop multiples by skip counting with a calculator to 1000. They share their lists and patterns.
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Using Integers
Given nine clues, investigators write down a positive or negative integer that represents the scenario. Then they compare pairs of integers and identify which is less or which is greater according to specified directions. This is a...
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Thinking About Credit
Students explore the concept of credit. In this credit lesson, students discuss what it means to buy items using credit. Students discuss how interest accrues and how much is really being paid with a credit card. Students calculate...
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Investment Investigator
Students investigate and model how to invest money. In this business lesson plan, students investigate 4 methods to investment. They discuss risky and safe investment.
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The Dart Problem
In this dart problem instructional activity, students write an algorithm to determine the greatest impossible score for a dartboard game. This one-page instructional activity contains 1 problem. The answer is listed at the...
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Zero is Our Hero (Grades 6-9)
Young scholars become interactive participants in introductory and practice activities involving positive and negative numbers. After watching a video, students play games together which help them use positive and negative numbers...
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Lemonade Stand: Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way
Pupils run their own lemonade stand and are to figure out what to sell the lemonade at to gain the maximum profit.
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Mandala Art
Students investigate art elements such as color schemes and proportion by creating their own personal Mandala Circle on paper or canvas. This also allows students to investigate mathematical concepts such as tesselations or social...
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Investigating Median, Mode, and Mean
Middle schoolers develop strategies to organize data while following teacher demonstration. They calculate the mean, median and mode of a data set while determining the relationships between the numbers. They analyze data from tables and...
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Jelly Belly: What a Wonderful "Bean"!
Students explore how jelly beans are produced. They discuss the origins of the jelly bean and view a video about how jelly beans are prepared, tested, shaped, finished, and shipped and estimate the amount of jelly beans in a jar and sort...
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EMS Lesson 2: Outrageous Offspring
Students investigate the principles of probability that can be used to predict hereditary traits.
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Local Traffic Survey
Students conduct a traffic survey and interpret their data and use graphs and charts to display their results.
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Subtraction Shopping
Students subtract two digit numbers. They check each other's answers for accuracy.
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Trash Pizza
Students work together to identify items sent to landfills. They summarize percentages of the different items found in landfills. They create a pizza pie graph of all of the components found in landfills.
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Number and Number Relations: Lesson 3
Eighth graders compare whole numbers and decimals. They use symbols for <, >, =, and order whole numbers and decimals. They practice the meaning of positive and nugative integers by using them to describe real-world situations.
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Water Regulation
Students use their basic knowledge of physiology to analyze graphical data of paramecia under diverse conditions. From the data analysis, Students develop explanations of the animal's response to the concentration of different solutions...
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Dino Cylinders
Students investigate the capacity of containers using small dinosaur figures as the unit of measure. They work with a number of different shaped containers to compare the capacity as they practice counting the dinosaurs. They complete an...
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Indiana State Testing Review
In this literacy set of worksheets, 3rd graders practice getting ready for the state test. They have a writing and mathematics portion to complete for ISTEP preparation with the 3rd grade standards.
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Addition
In this addition worksheet, 3rd graders practice solving 10 addition problems involving 2-digit whole numbers. Students put their answers in the shapes provided.
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Primary Geometry
Young scholars identity simple geometric shapes. In this early geometry lesson, the teacher introduces students to triangles, squares, and rectangles, then young scholars identify and classify the shapes as they are found in the...
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Seized Before Flights: Graph
In this bar graph worksheet, students analyze a graph that show the number of prohibited items intercepted at U.S. airport screening checkpoints. Students answer 3 problem solving questions about the data on the graph.
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Designed to Scale
Seventh graders study ratios, scale and distances according to a three dimensional model. In this exploratory lesson students create their own constellation and prepare an oral presentation that describes their model.
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Pounds and Ounces: It's All About Weight
First graders explore number sense by participating in a measurement estimation activity. In this weight instructional activity, 1st graders discuss the differences between measurement units, both English and Metric. Students examine a...
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Graphing Fun In Third Grade
Third graders display information in a graph, table, and chart. For this data lesson plan, 3rd graders look at graphs, tables, and charts, discuss their importance, and make their own.