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California Mathematics Project

Model Solar System

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The sun's diameter is 864,337 miles—challenge learners to create a scale model of the solar system that fits in your classroom. Scholars make conversions and work with scientific notation as they create the scale model. 
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Organizer
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Curriculum Corner

Unit Rate Problem Solving

For Students 6th Standards
Eight word problems and a well organized answer sheet make up a practice page designed to reinforce unit rates. 
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Curriculum Corner

Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 6th Standards
Reinforce the concept of central tendency—mean, median, mode, and range—with a practice packet that comprises of eight problems and a structured answer sheet with plenty of room to show work.   
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Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Transforming the Graph of a Function

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Function notation is like a code waiting to be cracked. Learners take the graph of an unknown equation and manipulate it based on three different transformation changes of the function equation. The final step is to look at three points...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Identifying Quadratic Functions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Put your high schoolers to the test and see how well they know their quadratic functions. With excellent thought-provoking questions, learners use what they know about creating quadratic equations based off different pieces of...
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Worksheet
Shmoop

Functions Worksheet 6

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Instead of the typical function application problems, learners think a little deeper through these ten problems. Multiple types of functions are represented and the questions add a variety of thinking to practice their skills. 
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Balanced Assessment

Fit-Ness

For Students 11th - 12th
Serve four towns with one bus route. Pupils develop a bus route that meets certain criteria to serve four towns. They determine which of the routes would best serve all of them. Individuals then hypothesize where a fifth town should be...
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Balanced Assessment

Transformation I

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Rewriting expressions in different forms is an essential algebra skill. Support the development of this skill by using a task that asks scholars to begin with a linear, quadratic, and rational expression and then manipulate...
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Balanced Assessment

Bouncing Off the Walls

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Apply geometry concepts to improve your pool game! Here scholars create the perfect bank shot using angles of incidence and refraction. They create three different options for the same shot.
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Balanced Assessment

Don't Fence Me In

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Investigate the complexities of design problems using geometric concepts. The task asks scholars to design a fence for a horse based on the distance it can travel within one hour. It is a seemingly simple task — until individuals learn...
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Balanced Assessment

Birthday Card

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Add a twist to the practice of simplifying expressions. The task asks scholars to decode a mathematical puzzle using their knowledge of expressions. If they are able to write and simplify the expression, the mathematics behind the puzzle...
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Balanced Assessment

Gligs and Crocs

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explore relationships between perimeter and area. Learners compare the measurement units of gligs and crocs. They use a given perimeter and area as well as specific measurement relationships to determine the scale of gligs to crocs.
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Balanced Assessment

Dog Tags

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Class members demonstrate a proficiency with conditional probabilities through this task. Individuals calculate probabilities using multiplication and addition. They also distinguish between repetition and non-repetition while...
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Balanced Assessment

Scaling the Stars

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Examine ratio and scale through coordinate geometry. Scholars use two diagrams of different scale to calculate perimeter and area. Then, individuals use the perimeters and areas to find ratios.
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Balanced Assessment

Fermi Estimates II

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How many hot dogs does Fenway Park go through in a year? Learners estimate answers to this question and more as they work through the task. Problems require participants to make assumptions and use those assumptions to make estimations.
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Balanced Assessment

Bicycle Chain II

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Apply geometric concepts to a design problem. Individuals examine the structural setup of the chain on a bicycle and use the measurements of the circles to determine the length of the chain. 
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Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Coordinates of Equilateral Triangles

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Can it be constructed? The task poses the question whether it is possible to have an equilateral triangle with its vertices located at integer coordinates. Pupils work with their knowledge of trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean...
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Activity
Noyce Foundation

Cut It Out

For Students K - 12th Standards
Explore the mathematics of the paper snowflake! During the five lessons progressing in complexity from K through 12, pupils use spatial geometry to make predictions. Scholars consider a folded piece of paper with shapes cut out....
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Activity
Noyce Foundation

Measuring Up

For Students K - 12th Standards
Teach the basics of measurement and conversion with a five-lesson resource that builds an understanding of proportion and measurement conversion from elementary through high school. Initially, young scholars use ratios to determine soup...
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California Education Partners

Animals of Rhomaar

For Students 7th Standards
Investigate the growth rates of alien animals. Pupils study fictional animals from another planet to determine how much they grow per year. The investigators plot the growth of their animals over a period of time and then compare...
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Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Boys and Girls, Variation 2

For Students 1st Standards
How many ways can you make the number 9? Use a task that has pupils thinking about the many different ways a classroom of nine can be made up of boys and girls.
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Activity
Education Development Center

Sum of Rational and Irrational is Irrational

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
Sometimes the indirect path is best. Scholars determine whether the sum of a rational number and an irrational number is irrational. Reading a transcript of a conversation between classmates leads to an indirect proof of this concept.
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

A Monosignic Function

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Complex fractions and trigonometric expressions combine to create a challenging task ... as if they aren't challenging enough on their own! The task challenges individuals to consider the range of possible values when substituting in the...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Betweenness III

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Don't let a little challenge get between your pupils and their learning! Scholars compare two absolute value functions to recognize patterns and use them to build their own functions with outputs that are between the given. They then...

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