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Curated OER

Circles and Clocks, Shapes and Time

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars work in groups to research clocks and practice telling time. In this telling time lesson plan, students use the computer program ProQuest to study circles, including radius and diameter, and practice drawing circles using...
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TOPS Learning Systems

PI in the SKY

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
What is pi anyway?  After this set of activities, your pupils should have multiple answers to this question. Investigate pi with various experiments and discoveries. Calculate the ratio circumference/diameter for different sized...
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National Wildlife Federation

What is DBH?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When measuring the circumference of a tree, does it matter how high you place the measuring tape? Most scholars have never considered this question, but scientists know that measurement techniques must be standardized. The 13th lesson in...
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EngageNY

Ferris Wheels—Using Trigonometric Functions to Model Cyclical Behavior

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Have class members going in circles as they model the path of a Ferris Wheel using trigonometric functions. Building on the previous lesson in this series on transformations, learners use trigonometric functions to model wheels of...
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Marilyn Burns Education Associates

Eighteen Flavors

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Your learners will be tantalized by this inquiry-based, collaborative activity as they discover how to write an equation that represents the height of an ice cream cone. Given the scenario based on the poem, "Eighteen Flavors," and...
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Curated OER

Splitting the Penstock

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students investigate the best way to calculate the measurements of an area. In this geometry lesson, students relate a large circle to a cylinder and its measurements. They use PVC pipes to gain hands on experience as they calculate the...
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Curated OER

Geometry, Pi, and Ancient Civilizations

For Teachers 8th - 9th
By working together, pairs of students will complete a Pi webquest. Using the internet, they examine the ways people in the Ancient Civilizations of Egypt, Babylonia and Greece used Pi. To end the lesson, they review the concepts of...
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Curated OER

Volume of a Cylinder

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Middle and high schoolers calculate the volume of cylinders. They measure the height, radius and diameter of cylinders. Following given formulas, students calculate the area and volume of the cylinder. They compare cylinders and predict...
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Curated OER

Solar System Hall Model

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Not novel, but fun, this lesson gets your space science learners to model the size of the planets and the solar system along your school's hallway. Scaled measurements as well as actual distances are provided for both planet diameters...
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Curated OER

Tolerance

For Students 9th
In this tolerance worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 11 different problems that include determining exact measurements. First, they write each expression as an inequality. Then, students determine the tolerance interval of a...
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Curated OER

Integers and Measurement

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this integers and measurement worksheet, students solve 24 various types of problems as defined. They reduce all fractions to lowest terms. Then, students draw a diagram and show the measurements to the proper power and pi for the...
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Curated OER

Creating a Basal Area Measuring Tape

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use formulas to design and create a table.  For this calculations lesson students create basal measuring tapes that will be used to measure woodlot stocking levels. 
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Interactive
Curated OER

Geometry Worksheets - Volume of Cylinders

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online math instructional activity, learners determine the volume of cylinders given their dimensions. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A...
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Curated OER

Geometric Figures

For Students 7th
In this geometric figures worksheet, 7th graders solve and complete 10 different problems that include measurement. First, they draw a reflection of a given shape over a line. Then, students draw a rotation of a different shape. They...
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Curated OER

Perimeter and Circumference

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider perimeter and circumference. In this lesson plan on perimeter, students will determine relationships between perimeter and circumference using real life examples.
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Curated OER

Measuring Current

For Students 10th - 12th
In this measuring current learning exercise, learners determine where the switch should be placed in a circuit and how the current at one point in a circuit compares to other points in the circuit. Students also draw diagrams of an...
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Curated OER

Triangles

For Students 10th
In this triangles activity, 10th graders solve 10 different problems that include determining the measurement of various angles. First, they determine the area of a triangle illustrated on the sheet. Then, students use the picture to...
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Curated OER

Squares

For Students 10th
For this squares worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 7 various types of problems. First, they divide a product of one with a square of the other. Then, students find the dimensions of a rectangle that will maximize the area. In...
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Curated OER

Finding the Basal Area of a Forest Plot to Determine Stocking Levels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use graphs and plots to measure the basal area and stocking levels.  In this graphing instructional activity students work in the field the use their data to help them complete a lab activity. 
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Curated OER

Connecting Area Formulas Produces a Beautiful Formula

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students find the area of the triangle using the formula of 1/2 bh. Then they find the area using an alternative method.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Surface Area of Cylinder Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this surface area worksheet, students are given either the diameter or radius and the height of 8 cylinders. They calculate the surface area.
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Curated OER

The Effects of Meteor Impacts

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students investigate meteor impacts on the Earth's surface by using different size balls and charting their impacts, given their diameter and mass.
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Curated OER

Around The Stop Sign

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze a drawing of a regular octagon inscribed in a circle to determine angle measures, using knowledge of properties of regular polygons and the sums of angles in various polygons to help solve the problem. They use...
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Curated OER

Math: Arcs and Chords

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students draw diagrams demonstrating how it is possible to two central angles to be congruent and their minor arcs are not congruent. In groups, they illustrate theorems with their constructed circles, create diameters of circles that...

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