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Calculator Code Words 2
In this calculator code words worksheet, students practice solving twenty equations utilizing a calculator. Students then turn the calculator upside down and match the word they see with one of the clues given to each of them.
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The Five Number Game
Students explain what it means to square numbers. They explain what it means to cube numbers. Students define prime numbers using their own language. They are introduced to the problem by playing one game as a class.
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Online video games plus curriculum-based math equals an engaging educational tool.
Seventh graders use online math games to practice understanding the skill of estimation and order of operations. In this lesson, 7th graders use the internet to play online games to strengthen their understanding of these skills.
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Chance Experiments, Sample Spaces, and Events
Want a leg up on the competition? Show classes how to use mathematics to their advantage when playing games. Learners calculate probabilities to determine a reasonable scoring strategy for a game.
Illustrative Mathematics
Sounds Really Good! (Sort Of...)
Winning a lottery game with 60% odds sounds like a no brainer. This is when the math kicks in to show players that in the long run, they lose money the more often they play. Here is one simple question that opens the doors to a nice...
Balanced Assessment
MasterMind
Knowledge of statistics and probability can increase your advantage when playing games. The activity asks learners to analyze the game of MasterMind to determine the number of possible codes. They also examine different variations of the...
Central New Mexico Community College
Percent Word Problems
Take young mathematicians' understanding of percents into the real world with this series of word problems. Involving a variety of contexts from calculating scores on math tests and savings account interest, to determining sale prices...
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Worksheet for Pi
Who needs a pie-eating contest when you have a pi-ology game! Celebrate March 14th with a fun board game about pi and other geometric concepts. As learners answer questions about geometry, they move around the board to collect...
Illustrative Mathematics
Offensive Linemen
Comparing college football teams, Division I is said to have heavier lineman than Division III. Your mathematicians are given data from two different divisions and will have to interpret a dotplot and calculate the difference in weight...
Mrs. Burke's Math Page
The Amazing Pi Race
Add a sense of excitement to your math class with this race across the country. Using their knowledge of all things circular, young mathematicians work in pairs answering a series of pi-related word problems as they hop from one city to...
Charleston School District
Review Unit 3: Functions
Time to show what you know about functions! The review concludes a series of nine lessons on the basics of functions. The problems included are modeled from the previous lessons. Pupils determine if a table represents a function,...
Yummy Math
The Olympic Flame's Trip
Just in time for the start of the Winter 2018 Olympics, you can track the Olympic torch relay through the Republic of Korea. But there must be some math involved, right? Give learners a instructional activity that prompts them to...
Lincoln Public Schools
Cereal Box Project
Challenge your class with this fun and engaging engineering design project. The goal, to create a brand new cereal complete with a list of ingredients, a name and logo, and a box to hold it in. Starting with a survey to determine the...
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Intercepting Villans Using the Correct Rate
A Cyberchase video introduces the distance = rate x time equation. Participants then calculate answers to proposed problems and graph a series of results that is then incorporated into a game to help cement the concept. A thorough and...
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Rice Math
Sixth graders calculate the amount of rice there will be if the amount is doubled everyday. In this multiplying lesson, 6th graders are given an amount of rice that is grown each day. Students then calculate how much rice there will be...
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Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations
Students explore the various rhythmic combinations in jazz and blues music. They watch a video segment, apply a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible rhythmic combinations, and perform a combination of notes and...
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Addition: Four In a Row Game
In this finding the sums game activity, students add one-digit numbers plus one-digit numbers to be the first to solve four in a row. Students solve 25 problems.
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Bowling Math
Students calculate bowling scores by using math skills. In this bowling lesson plan, students take a trip to a bowling alley and use a worksheet to figure out bowling scores. Students use prior math skills such as addition to calculate...
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Native American Pebble and Pot Game
Learners participate in a game using 12 manipulatives. In this addition and subtraction lesson students play a game originated by the Native Americans and look at a number of items and calculate how many are hidden....
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Math is Everywhere!
In this everyday math skills pretest, students answer ten multiple choice questions based on their knowledge of everyday math skills such as estimation, addition, and measurement.
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Math - Does It Add Up? Applying Arithmetic Operations to Solve Everyday Problems
In this story problem activity, student find ten math problems in the story, write the problems down and say what type of calculation it was. Students also complete 12 computation problems.
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Calculating rates
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students solve verbal problems in which they calculate rates using the appropriate unit of measure. The one page worksheet contains a combination of seven multiple choice and free response...
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The Price Is Right - TV Game Show
Students play variation of TV game show "The Price is Right" to identify coins and their values.