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Let's Try Various Calculations

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore math facts.  In this calculation and math facts lesson, students play a board game in which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math facts are practiced.  A copy of the game is included.
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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems.  In this using ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems lesson, 8th graders estimate the cost of a road trip.  Students estimate the distance...
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Design a Better Classroom Workplace

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students design a new classroom workplace. In this architecture lesson plan, students use area formulas to identify the problem with the existing desks in their classroom. Students design their own solution volume formulas to solve the...
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What Is It?

For Teachers 3rd
 Students explore the likelihood of events.  In this logical thinking lesson, 3rd graders are given several scenarios and determine whether the possibility of the described event actually happening is likely, unlikely, or...
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Inequalities are Everywhere

For Students 9th
For this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders work with a family member to graph inequalities on a number line. The two page worksheet contains five questions. Answers are included.
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Creating Line Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers draw line graphs. In this math instructional activity, students interpret minimum wage data and graph the data in a line graph. High schoolers predict the next minimum wage and figure the earnings for a 40 hour work week...
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Impact!!

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students perform a science experiment. In this algebra instructional activity, students collect data from their experiment and create a graph. They analyze the graph and draw conclusion.
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Graphing Trash Material

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners investigate data and recyclable materials. In this math lesson, students save recyclable materials and create a graph of the materials. Learners discuss how they could help the environment by recycling.
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Frogs, Frogs, And More Frogs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review the life cycle of a frog. They use the computer to research specific information about their frog and write a descriptive paragraph using the information obtained on the computer. They access websites imbedded in...
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What's My Rule? Simple Linear Functions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate simple linear functions by trying to guess a function rule from inputs and outputs. They write the function rule in algebraic form.
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How Tall Is That Flag Pole?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine various triangles and discuss how similar triangles have sides that are proportional. They utilize an ancient Egyptian method to determine the height of a flagpole.
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Probability With a Random Drawing

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students define probability, and predict, record, and discuss outcomes from a random drawing, then identify most likely and least likely outcomes. They conduct a random drawing, record the data on a data chart, analyze the data, and...
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ABC's Transformer

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders design their own letter graph, and then produce the resulting graphs after a translation, reflection, and rotation. After a review of vocabulary, 4th graders create their graphs using crayons.
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Patchwork Quilts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine about traditional quilting patterns, the symmetry in such patterns, and practice creating patterns of their own. They design a quilting pattern, and groups make colorful "patches," of a pattern. They assemble the...
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Career Math Problems

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders solve career word problems using math.
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Investigations into Estimations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners gain the powerful tools of estimation, prediction, and averaging and discover the importance these tools have in daily living.
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Introductions

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Young scholars introduce themselves to the teacher and the class by completing a variety of surveys, interest inventories and questionnaires. They interview several others and then introuduce one of the people they inerviewed to the rest...
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Strong as the Weakest Link

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discover the types of stress that materials undergo. They examine how bridges and skyscrapers are built to withhold the tension. They create their own structure out of marshmallows and spaghetti.
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Portable Sundial

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together to identify the accuracy of sundials. They track the position of the sun and create a shadow plot. They discover the difference between real time and clock time.
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Hold Off on the Headphones

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students determine that waves carry energy and information from one place to another. They determine that wavelength, frequency and wave speed are related and describe that sound is a longitudinal wave whose speed depends on the...
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Classroom Ecosystems: Windows on our Environment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students in a special education classroom examine their relationship with the environment. As a class, they examine the concept of a web of life and create their own classroom ecosystem. In groups, they record their observations and...
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Are Fruits And Vegetables Really Made of Cells?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and carry out an exercise to determine if a given fruit or vegetable is composed of cells. They dissect out sections of the fruit or vegetable, prepare stained slides, and make observations under a compound microscope.
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Translations, Reflections, and Rotations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concepts of translation, reflection, and rotation. They practice translating, reflecting, and rotating two-dimensional objects on the coordinate plane. students use computers to learn about the three concepts.
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Fractions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders define and identify fractions. They draw a fraction with the correct number of equal parts, shade a specified number of parts, and write a fraction based on information from a variety of story problems. Students observe...

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