Mathematics Assessment Project
25% Sale
Free clothes? In the middle school assessment task, learners first consider whether four 25 percent reductions will result in a sale price of $0. Mathematicians then determine the sale price and discount percentage of such a sale.
Teach Engineering
Pushing it Off a Cliff
Focus on the conservation of energy, specifically looking at gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy, with a lecture that involves having friends throw light objects at each other to determine which has more kinetic energy and...
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Energy on a Roller Coaster
Roll with your class into the idea of conservation of energy. Pupils use a roller coaster track to collect data to reinforce the concept of conservation of energy and the influence of friction. Class members then create a graph from...
Teach Engineering
The Challenge Question
A research position becomes a modeling job. The introductory activity in a series of nine presents the challenge of analyzing a set of bivariate data. The class brainstorms what the data may represent. Pupils must decide what is needed...
Balanced Assessment
Compact-Ness
Creating a definition may be easier than it sounds! Give your classes experience creating their own definition. Scholars examine the meaning of the compact-ness of a scatter plot and create their own definitions based on measurements.
Chicago Botanic Garden
GEEBITT (Global Equilibrium Energy Balance Interactive TinkerToy)
Students use the GEEBITT excel model to explore how global average temperatures are affected by changes in our atmosphere in part two of this series of seven lessons. Working in groups, they discuss, analyze graphs, and enter data to...
NASA
Connecting Models and Critical Questions
Scholars use data to analyze and determine which sets of information need to be counted. They create a model to explain differences among chemical elements using graphs to prove concept mastery.
New York City Department of Education
Rational Numbers
Order up a unit on rational numbers. A unit overview gives a basic outline of instruction and activities on rational numbers for the 7.NS domain. A performance task on profits at pizzerias assesses understanding of the concepts in the...
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A Recipe For Success
Sixth graders explore a relevant application of ratios and proportions. They apply this concept through guided practice and interactive feedback.
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Torque Me Off
Young scholars investigate the lever and the mathematics associated with levers. They determine the conditions necessary to balance a system of forces around a fulcrum.
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It's Your Future
Students learn about productive resources along with their requirements, supply and demand, savings, investments and interest rates. In this supply and demand instructional activity, students create a career plan and personal budget of...
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PAY CREDIT WHEN CREDIT IS DUE
Students learn about credit cards and scores and how to and not to use them. In this financial concept lesson, students are given hypothetical scenarios where they are able to apply learning's to given situations as they figure rates,...
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On Our Own- Surviving on Another Planet
Pupils investigate current models for Lunar and Martian settlements and study the mathematics behind these designs. They design their own Lunar or Martian settlement with an explanation of why their model would work best.
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Going "Diggie" with Math Word Problems
Sixth graders create word problems. In this sixth grade mathematics lesson, 6th graders use digital cameras to photograph interesting events around school and create word problems for their photographs that address the key concepts...
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The Fibonacci Keyboard- Jazz and Math
Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationships of the Fibonacci Sequence. They apply the Fibonacci Sequence and find its relationship to a piano keyboard. They explore various relationships between music and the Fibonacci...
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The Geometry of Indigenous Art
Learners examine the concepts of symmetry, rotations, reflections, translation, dialations, and tessellations and apply them to indigenous art. They also do Internet research and create artwork (painting, pottery, computer graphic design).
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How Creepy!
Students observe and measure a model of slow down slope movement. In this graphing instructional activity students collect, record, and organize data that apply to models.
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Populations Lab - Exponential Graphing
Ninth graders investigate the application of populations that exists in one's everyday environment, in order to develop an understanding of how mathematics is a key component in the understanding of population dynamics.
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Pi Day
Ninth graders explore the concept of pi in preparation for developing a project for pi day. They examine direct variation, the history of pi, circle circumference and arc length, area and sector area and then consider how these concepts...
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Careers Lesson: Budget Analysis
Ninth graders examine money management. They study percentages, inequalities, fixed and variable expense calculations in order to develop an understanding of how these concepts apply to budgeting a lifestyle for a specific career.
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Disease Lesson
Ninth graders examine rates, matrices, histograms, line graphs, data analysis and data presentation in order to develop an understanding of how these concepts apply to a the effects of a specific disease.
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New York State Testing Program Math Release questions grade 8
In this algebra and geometry worksheet, students solve seven varying math problems. This worksheet will help prepare students for standardized tests covering algebra and geometry.
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Cramer's Rule
In this Cramer's Rule instructional activity, students first evaluate five determinants or square matrix. Then they solve the last five problems by applying Cramer's Rule. Students identify and define Cramer's Rule as a theorem used with...
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Order of Operations
In this order of operations worksheet, students simplify and evaluate 10 different types of problems by applying the order of operations in each. They simplify basic equations whether multiplication, division, addition, or subtraction....