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Curated OER

Hot Wheels

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students observe the action produced by toy cars. In this geometry lesson, students discuss motion and distance as they relate to the movement of a spherical object.They collect data and make conjectures based on their data.
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Curated OER

Graphing and the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students gain practice reading coordinates and plotting points by participating in the Coordinates! Game. They demonstrate and test their skills with graph paper and the Maze Game.
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Curated OER

Recognizing Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of patterns. In this patterns instructional activity, students use applets to manipulate tessellations. Students predict the next number in a sequence by recognizing patterns.
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Curated OER

What are the Odds

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Young scholars predict the-outcome of an event. In this algebra lesson, students compare and contrast the probability of an event occurring. They calculate the odds of a simple event and make estimation.
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Curated OER

Finding Patterns in Fractals

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover patterns and sequences. They use a website to explore patterns and fractals. Students share their discovery of fractals and their patterns with the class. They develop a list of patterns used in everyday life.
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Curated OER

Pascal's Triangle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study Pascal's triangle. They construct their own version of Pascal's triangle, and relate some of the uses for it. While working through this process, students practice their integer multiplication and division skills.
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Curated OER

Exploring Volume of Cylinders

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders investigate the volume of a cylinder.  In this geometry lesson, 10th graders create three-dimensional cylinders and use a ruler to determine the dimensions.  The lesson progresses to the use of the formula to find the...
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Curated OER

Water: On the Surface and in the Ground

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the differences between surface water and ground water. They collect data using maps and graphs and investigate a Texas river basin and a nearby aquifer. They complete a written report including maps and data regarding...
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Curated OER

Bubble Gum Chemistry

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the concept of graphing data. In this graphing data instructional activity, students determine the percentage of sugar in bubble gum. Students graph type of gum vs. sugar percentage. Students create a table of their data.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Alike and Different

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students compare and contrast objects and are introduced to a Venn Diagram. In this alike and different instructional activity, students make observations regarding properties of objects. Students classify object and build ideas about...
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Curated OER

Graphing With RXTE

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use data from the Rossi X-ray Tiiming Explorer (RXTE) satellite to analyze and graph.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

The Composition of Seawater

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students explore the concept of finding the composition of seawater.  In this finding the composition of seawater instructional activity, students make a saturated salt water solution.  Students discuss why there is variation in ocean...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le in the Billions and Linear Modeling

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a table of world population data and asked to explore whether linear functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Us Population 1982 1988

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a table of U.S. population data between 1982 and 1988 and are asked to explore whether linear functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. Aligns with F-LE.B.5 and F-LE.A.1.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Sandia Aerial Tram

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students examine data on the elevation and the minutes into a ride for a tram that is traveling up a mountain and write an equation for the function that models the relationship between the two variables. Aligns with...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Identifying Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, young scholars are shown a table with linear, quadratic, and exponential functions at various values of x and are asked to match the function type to each data set and explain their reasoning. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.b and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Basketball Bounces, Assessment Variation 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task asks young scholars to analyze a set of data about the height of a basketball for each time it bounces. They choose a model that reasonably fits the data and use the model to answer questions about the physical context. This...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Basketball Bounces, Assessment Variation 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task asks students to analyze a set of data about the height of a basketball for each time it bounces. They choose a model that reasonably fits the data and use the model to answer questions about the physical context. This second...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Choosing an Appropriate Growth Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this task is to examine some population data for large cities from a modeling perspective. Students are asked to decide if the population data can be accurately modeled by a linear, quadratic, and/or exponential function, and...
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Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 8: Interpreting Relationships in Scatterplots/graphs/tables/equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Interpreting and analyzing linear, quadratic, and exponential models and graphs. Students will use best fit lines to interpret contexts, distinguish whether contexts are linear or exponential functions, use the...
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PBS

Pbs: Black Kingdoms of the Nile

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A geometry lesson plan that examines the history and structure of ancient pyramids and engages young scholars in constructing pyramid models. A comprehensive lesson plan that considers students with diverse learning styles. Math concepts...