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Sunshine Math- 5
In this math applications worksheet, students complete 7 varied problems that include: fractions, estimation, menu math, reasoning, equations and probability.
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Sunshine Math-2
In this problem solving activity, learners complete 8 varied word problems. Included are money, addition and subtraction, counting and fractions.
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Vectors
High schoolers listen to a lecture and complete a number of problems as they go. There are a variety of examples given and they are guided through the problem solving steps for each of the real-world scenarios regarding the purpose of...
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Entrepreneurs are Born, but Can They Be Taught?
High schoolers explore the concept of entrepreneurs. In this entrepreneurs lesson, students read an article about entrepreneurship and whether or not it is an inherent trait or a learned skill. High schoolers discuss why entrepreneurship...
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Tantalizing Tangrams: Fractional Relationships
Students use tangrams to represent parts of a whole. In this fraction lesson, students use tangrams to determine fractional relationships between different pieces. Students use the AppleWorks drawing application to demonstrate the...
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Using Ratios to Taste the Rainbow
Students solve problems using ratios and proportion. In this algebra lesson, students analyze skittles and their different colors as they apply the properties of ratios and proportions to solve their problems.
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The Tipping Point
Students rewrite word problems and solve using math. In this word problem instructional activity, students gather data and observe the data. They relate this process to the scientific method and math. They review their data to be able to...
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Science TV: Making it Real
Students explore the ways science is presented in a children's television show. Students conduct internet research, and then create and design a skit that highlights the problem-solving process.
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Tick Around the Clock
Learners examine and discuss the differences between clocks they are shown. Using the internet, they research how people used to tell time before clocks. They review what the long and short hand on the clock represent and practice...
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Are You Game? A Lesson Connecting Fractions and Probability
Exactly how fair are the board games children grow up playing? Young mathematicians investigate this questions as they work their way through this five-lesson series on basic probability.
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Adventures With The Fish Pond: Population Modeling
Build up from the previous activity where your learners charted the population growth and decay of a fish pond with M&Ms®. Have them look at the data from that activity and create a Now-Next, or recursive equations, to predict the...
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Fraction Word Problems
In this fraction review worksheet, students read about adding, subtracting, multiplying, and and dividing fractions, examine some sample problems, and then solve 9 fraction word problems.
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Fraction Equivalence
Fourth graders explore fractions. They compare different fractions using fraction bars. Students find equivalent fractions and they use fraction bars to visualize addition of fractions.
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Fractions and Ribbons
Sixth graders explore using inverse operations to solve decimal and fraction problems. In this decimal and fraction lesson, 6th graders prepare ribbon for a part and need to cut it in equal lengths. Students analyze the problem.
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Fractions
Students solve problems with fractions without using a calculator. For this algebra lesson, students practice reducing, converting, adding, subtracting and multiplying fractions. They apply the use of fractions to the real world.
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Smaller Than One
Sixth graders practice converting a fraction into a decimal and a percent. They explain relationships among rational numbers. They order and compare whole numbers, fractions (including mixed numbers), and decimals using a variety of...
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Percentages, Fractions and Decimals
In this algebra worksheet, learners are asked to convert between percents, fractions and decimals. They calculate interest as it relates to real world scenario. There are 5 a,b,c questions.
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The Lottery Ptoblem
In this algebra worksheet, students solve word problems related to the real world scenario of winning the lottery. There is an answer key provided.
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Recipe For Disaster
Learners play an interactive game online to learn ratios. In this statistics lesson, students solve problems in an online game about ratio and relating statistics to the real world. This lesson provides hands on as well as teaching time.
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Cooking with Math
Fourth graders practice multiplication and division with cooking recipes. In this math lesson, 4th graders look at a recipe and change it so that it works for twice as many people or half as many people.
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Mammal Math
In this math word problems worksheet, students read the following questions carefully and answer the math problems. Students show their work and include the complete unit of measure in their answer.
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Arc Length and Area of a Sector
What do skateboarding and baked goods have in common with math? You can use them to connect half-pipe ramps and cakes to arcs and sectors. Pupils compare the lengths of three different ramp options of a skate park. They calculate the...
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The Number Line
Eighth graders investigate the order of numbers and how they are located on the number line. They also review the symbols used to compare quantities in order to decipher simple expressions and graph them on the numberline.
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Counting Money
Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.