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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Home sales records

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Practice consumer mathematics through by investigating home mortgages. Budding economists find the interest rates for 30-year and 15-year loans and calculate the estimated monthly payments. They use their data to compare periods of time...
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PPT
Curated OER

Calculus 10.2 day 2 - Vector Valued Functions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Looking for a lesson on vectors?  Here is a PowerPoint that has six examples for finding velocity, acceleration, speed and direction of motion. One of the examples demonstrates the use of the TI-89 Graphing Calculator to solve a problem.
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PPT
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Mass Problems

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Here are 22 problems on 4 pages intended to provide practice in calculating mass. Learners determine the differences in weight, fractional equivalents of given quantities, and determine which item is heaviest or lightest. The problems...
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PPT
Curated OER

Multiplying Decimals

For Teachers 5th - 6th
A challenging presentation helps learners practice strategies for multiplying when using decimals. There are lots of good tips regarding these type of calculations, and many good practice problems for pupils to engage in.
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PPT
Curated OER

Recognizing and Extending Number Sequences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Kids work to recognize and extend number sequences. They determine the rule in order to find the missing number in each sequence given. They review the concept, practice finishing sequences with a calculator, and explain each rule. 
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PPT
Curated OER

Angles

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
A professional-looking presentation focuses on measuring angles.. Each of the slides requires learners to calculate the measurement of an angle that's created by two intersecting lines. The key is to remember that angles on a straight...
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PPT
Curated OER

Exploring Square Roots and the Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 5th - 6th
For learners of algebra, this presentation could be of good use. They are coached on the basics of how to calculate square roots and perfect squares, and they are shown the intriciacies of the Pythagorean Theorem. There are many practice...
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Printables
Chapman University

e Poster

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
An interesting poster or handout showing Euler's number, e, as the calculated sum of an infinite series. The fractions start out large and gradually get smaller and smaller in both value and size. Shows some of the unique and fascinating...
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Worksheet
McGraw Hill

Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers

For Students 4th - 8th
Adding and subtracting mixed numbers will be a breeze with this guided instructional activity packet. Learners work through examples outlining each step including rewriting mixed numbers as improper fractions, adding numerators, and...
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Handout
Charleston School District

Estimating Values of Expressions

For Students 8th Standards
You can't evaluate an irrational root expression without a calculator—or can you? Scholars estimate the value of roots within an expression to approximate the value of the expression. Expressions include a mix of square roots and whole...
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Assessment
Mathematics Assessment Project

Funsize Cans

For Students 9th - 11th Standards
Designing fun-size cans ... what fun! Class members use the provided questions to determine the dimensions of a can with a minimum surface area for a given volume. The task allows learners to use graphs or algebraic manipulation to solve...
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Modeling Motion: Rolling Cups

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Connect the size of a rolling cup to the size of circle it makes. Pupils view videos of cups of different sizes rolling in a circle. Using the videos and additional data, they attempt to determine a relationship between cup measurements...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

The Pythagorean Relationship

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Add up areas of squares to discover the pythagorean relationship. Small groups create right triangles with squares along each side. They calculate the areas of each square and notice the relationship. Groups construct other types of...
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Activity
PBL Pathways

What Should Have Happened on Gilligan's Island?

For Students 10th - Higher Ed Standards
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale ..." Gilligan's Island is a classic that spans generations and offers a problem-solving opportunity for scholars. Take a project-based learning approach to examine the population of the island....
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Activity
101 Questions

Small Trebuchet

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Travel back to medieval time where learning is just a stone's throw away! A video introduction shows a trebuchet (catapult-like machine) as it launches a rock into a lake. Learners use their quadratic modeling skills to predict the...
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Activity
101 Questions

Jam Session

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Don't let the learning in your classroom get jammed up! Intrigue your scholars with an open-ended scenario to explore. A video presentation shows a challenging stretch of road that is susceptible to traffic jams. The task is to determine...
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Activity
101 Questions

Thanksgiving Taters

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What would a meal be without the taters? The question is, how long does it take to peel those potatoes? Given the rate of peeling one potato, scholars predict the time it takes to peel the bag. The twist is that the first potato was...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Here Comes the Sun

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Many phenomena in life are periodic in nature. A task-based lesson asks scholars to explore one of these phenomena. They collect data showing the sunrise time of a specific location over the period of a year. Using the data, they create...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Smart Money

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Watch the money grow daily. Scholars tackle a problem to determine how much money they will have if a dollar grows at 10 percent compounded daily after a month. Using that knowledge, learners notice the difference between varying savings...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Which Quadrilateral Is It?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers prove conjectures about geometric figures on the plane or in space using coordinate geometry. They develop fluency in operations with real numbers, vectors and matrices using mental computation or paper-and-pencil...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to Tangent Lines using the TI-Nspire

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students make mathematical argument using the concept of Limit. For this algebra lesson, student calculate the instantaneous rate of change from the linear graph. They use a TI-calculator to create a visual of the graphs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Energy Audit

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students collect data about energy usage and use mathematical calculations to analyze their data. In this energy conservation and statistics math lesson, students survey their homes to complete an energy usage worksheet. Students...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Help Young Mathematicians Write Their Way to Math Success

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Clear and concise writing should be an integral part of learning mathematics.
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2017 AP® Calculus AB Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th
What is the answer to this question? Pupils use six questions to practice for the AP Calculus AB test. The review questions are divided in two sections, calculator and non-calculator. Additional resources allow teachers to determine how...

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