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Trash Pizza

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils identify items commonly sent to landfills and summarize percentages/fractions of different items in landfills Students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components
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Fra-Per-Dec

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the concept of ordering fractions and finding equivalent fractions. In this ordering fractions and finding equivalent fractions activity, students play a card game where young scholars must collect 5 cards with...
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"NSN, Fractions/Decimals" Investigations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders engage in a "layered" unit of discovery. There are three levels of potential learning opportunities, in the spirit of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (bronze, silver, gold). The lesson is based upon fractions.
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Term Deposits: Worth the Wait?

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars study term deposits and the attributes of long and short-term savings. They examine their spending habits while looking at how different types of accounts meet different economic goals. They complete worksheets that are...
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Mathematical Magazines

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use ads from magazines to create data to be measured and apply the skill of estimation. They record the percentage of magazine ads that could be separated into different categories made by students through the use of logical...
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Solving Percent Problems with Proportions

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the concept of percent problems. In this percent problem lesson, 7th graders use proportion equations to solve percent problems. Students find percentages of numbers and use proportions to determine percents in...
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Continuous Probability Distributions

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners practice continuous probability distributions. In this probability lesson, students calculate probability, use probability functions, and use rectangular distribution.
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The Gulf Oil Spill Provides Many Learning Opportunities

For Teachers 6th - 10th
You can use math and engineering lesson plans to delve into the affects of the recent oil spill.
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Food Label Fun

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate how to read and analyze food labels. In this nutrition lesson, 3rd graders watch a food label video and investigate labels from various canned foods. Students create a chart showing the percentage of vitamins...
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The Discount Is Right

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners estimate and calculate the sale price of five items using the original price and a designated rate of discount. They use percent to calculate the rate of discount and the original.
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Determining the Age of Fossils

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the concept of radioactive dating. In this radioactive dating lesson, students investigate how to determine the ages of fossils and rocks as they learn about half-life radioactive decay.
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DETERMINING THE EXISTENCE OF GENDER BIAS IN DAILY TASKS

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify task assignments by gender.
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What Does Percent Have to Do With It?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders go shopping for a real life experience involving percent. They explore the concepts of sales tax and discount prices.
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Standard Deviation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars find city temperatures and analyze their means to find the standard deviation. They calculate the standard deviation of monthly temperature means.
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Lyrics Statistics

For Teachers 4th
Students describe, analyze and generalize relationships, patterns, functions using words. symbols, variables, tables and graphs.
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Comparing Earth and Mars

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together to compare and contrast Mars and Earth. Using the internet, they answer questions given to them by their teacher and calculate answers showing their work. They graph their answers and discuss the results of the...
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Hitting the Roof

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students examine the state of the British housing market. In this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to study Gordon Brown's plan for eco-towns, how to borrow money to buy homes, and what the home prices are in...
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GUM: More, Less, or the Same?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils confirm the law of conservation of matter by weighing chewing gum before and after it is chewed.
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Calculating Theoretical & Experimental Probability

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners collect data by conducting a survey of fellow classmates. They investigate the relationship between estimates obtained from samples and theoretical probabilities. Answer keys included.
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Baseball Statistics

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read "Casey at the Bat" and then use individual player statistics (found through internet research)to determine if their players could be considered baseball "heroes". They must justify their choices for "hero" by creating...
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Interest: Interest Olympics

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students determine how interests is calculated and a how it accrues. They examine charts and graphs that show the intricacies of interest. They determine how to increase their own saving by using interest while working with a partner to...
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Inflation: Taking Prices Higher

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine the definition of inflation and its impact through history. They read and discuss online text, discuss examples of inflation, calculate the prices of various items for different years using an inflation rate of 3%, and...
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Making the Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use a Horton Chart to identify relationships between numbers and make equivalent fractions and decimals. Scholars change a fraction to find the greatest common factor, find percents, and make equivalent decimals.
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Different Perspectives of Oregon's Forest Economic Geography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students locate the many forests located in Oregon. In groups, they use the internet to research employment data on wood products made in the state. They discuss how looking at information presented in a different way can change their...