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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Chem Prime: Creating a Connection Between Everyday Life and Stoichiometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about stoichiometry, and make the connection between stoichiometry and when they use the same mathematical process during their every day life.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Survey Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can answer the survey questions to supplement the Everyday Mathematics program. Students can practice analyzing the data gathered from their friends.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Is Math Discovered or Invented?

For Students 9th - 10th
Would mathematics exist if people didn't? Did we create mathematical concepts to help us understand the world around us, or is math the native language of the universe itself? Jeff Dekofsky traces some famous arguments in this ancient...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Everyday Math Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is for fourth grade Everyday Math Unit 5 Lesson 1.
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Website
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Math for Everyone

For Students K - 1st
Provides online programs and explanations on everyday math: calculating a tip at a restaurant, determining the sale price of an item, finding the odds of winning a lottery, computing simple and compound interest, and more.
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Website
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: New in Math World

For Students 9th - 10th
Almost everyday, Wolfram updates this site with mathematical news and activities.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Math of Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
Students study the relationship of mathematics and physics in this interactive learning module. Activities include readings, practice problems, and interactive self check questions.
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Website
Other

The Futures Channel: Problem Solving

For Students 9th - 10th
"Connecting learning to the real world" is the goal of the Futures Channel. Through the use of short videos, teachers can integrate real-world examples of how math and science are used in everyday life. Complete teaching guidelines...
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dinosaur Shadow Box

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create a series of shadow boxes to form a complete silhouette of a dinosaur with this challenge. To complete this challenge, students will use everyday materials and this site to document their process.
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Hydroelectric Waterwheel

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can you generate electricity from the flow of water by designing a waterwheel? In this challenge, students will be using everyday objects to create their waterwheel. This site contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to...
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a No Wire Circuit

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A challenge for students to design and build a circuit using conductive everyday objects. This site also includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Communication Network

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using some everyday household materials, students are challenged to design and build a network to send communication signals in multiple directions to multiple people. To help students accomplish this challenge there are tips, a lesson...
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Handout
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Unsure of Which Telephone Plan to Choose?

For Students 9th - 10th
This online activity will help you use step functions as a means of determining the most appropriate calling package for your household.
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Handout
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Inter Math: Interior Angle

For Students 6th - 8th
This site gives a decription of interior angles along with a visual representation. Be sure to use the links to related terms, everyday examples, challenging problems, more information, and the interactive check point involving interior...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A Performance of "Mathemagic"

For Students 9th - 10th
Arthur Benjamin talks about mathematical quandries in our everyday lives. See if these have any effect on how you feel about math.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Math: Measurement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find a variety of worksheets, booklets, conversion charts, warm-up activities and more on measurements. There is even one activity that could be used in a French language class which...
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Handout
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source on Line: Helping Your Child Learn Math

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this resource, parents are asked to consider how they feel about Math, then are presented with lots of ideas for mathematical activities they can try with their children.
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Website
Other

The Futures Channel: Proportional Reasoning

For Students 9th - 10th
"Connecting learning to the real world" is the goal of the Futures Channel. Through the use of short videos, teachers can integrate real-world examples of how math and science are used in everyday life. Complete teaching guidelines...
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Activity
Other

Gcse Answers' Easy Start Trigonometry

For Students 9th - 10th
Some basic questions dealing with everyday situations where trigonometry is needed to solve the problem. Click a button for the solutions.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Quilting With My Pal, Pythagoras!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this unit lesson, young scholars will learn about the Pythagorean Theorem and how it is evident in our everyday world. Students will apply the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem to the squares of a quilt. Each quilt square will be...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Positively f.u.n. !

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This instructional activity will actively engage students to identify and add positive and negative integers. In cooperative groups, students will discuss everyday vocabulary that will activate students' existing background knowledge and...
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life

For Students K - 1st
Read about what math has to do with cooking, chances of winning a game, even decorating your home. Teachers may want to peruse this site for ideas about real world applications in their lesson planning.
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Handout
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Inter Math: Interactive Math Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th
Each term of Intermath's interactive math dictionary contains a description and links to related terms, everyday examples, interactive checkpoint, more information, and challenges located in the left-hand column of the page. This...
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Egyptian Numerals

For Students 3rd - 8th
Practice changing Egyptian numerals into our everyday numbers we use and vice versa. Three hints are available. This game is set up with a game show format. See how high you can climb on the money chart!

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