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Butterfly Addition: Color by Numbers

For Teachers K - 1st
Children learning to add numbers up to 11 develop the strategy of using the larger number as the first addend and counting on from there to find a sum. They define addition and review the meaning of the plus (+) symbol. To practice, they...
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Design Patterns

For Teachers K - 1st
Students extend and create patterns. Through a variety of activities, they discover patterns as they exist in math and their everyday lives. Students create a necklace that represents a pattern.
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Virginia Department of Education

The Exercise Fields

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Horses need exercise, too. Scholars create linear equations to model the perimeter of exercise fields for horses. They finish by solving their equations for the length and width of the fields.
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Georgia Learning Connections

Stand By Me!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Get your little mathematicians moving with this experiential activity in which one child is the "tens" and another is the "ones." They collect the number of unifix cubes (in tens or singles) assigned to their respective place values and...
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Adding and Subtracting Algebraic Expressions (Combining Like Terms)

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Everyone loves math when it includes food! This lesson tries to take the notion of combining like terms in algebra and comparing it to sorting apples and oranges. It takes a step-by-step approach to helping students understand this...
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Rational, Irrational and Square Roots

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students identify rational and irrational numbers and their use in mathematical functions. Through demonstration, students discover the difference between rational and irrational numbers and their use. Using estimation skills students...
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The Business of Credit

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learn about credit ratings and how it plays a role in the function of small businesses. Learners use their knowledge of good and bad credit to role play and determine good credit vs. bad credit in the area of small businesses.
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Multiplying Exponents vs. Powers of Powers

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Use the power of a power property to solve exponential functions. The lesson refers to  differentiating between multiplying or adding exponents to find the value, and how to find the product of a power of a power.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Fishing Adventures 1

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Often inequalities exist in many real-world contexts but young math learners struggle with understanding how to represent that relationship in a simple equation using an inequality. This activity focuses on the basic concepts by using...
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Using Objects to Object to Objectification

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars use math functions in part to complete a metaphorical lesson on tolerance. In this math and tolerance lesson, students receive rows of functions and try to find a single simple shared property without success. Young...
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Vertical and Horizontal Translations

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze function graphs.  In this Algebra II/Pre-calculus lesson, students investigate the graph of a function as they determine to which family of functions it belongs, determine the parent function and describe the translation...
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Linear and Quadratic Approximations

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars explore a linear, a parabolic, and a log function.  In this Algebra II/Pre-calculus lesson students investigate the graph a line, a parabola, and a log function.  Young scholars examine the three graphs as they compare and...
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Radical Transformations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students transform the square root function graphically.  In this transforming the square root function graphically lesson, students use their Ti-Nspire to change the a, b, and c values of th square root graph.  Students transform the...
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Exploring the Witch of Agnesi

For Teachers 9th - 12th
learners construct the graph of the Witch of Agnesi, and investigate both its asymptotes and inflection points. They construct the graph of the Witch of Agnesi and conjecture the asymptotes and inflection points of the function. ...
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Maximum and Minimum Values

For Teachers 11th
In this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders complete the square to write a quadratic equation in Standard form.  Students identify the vertex, sketch the graph and state the maximum or minimum value of the functions.  The one page...
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y Intercepts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this y-intercept worksheet, students graph functions and determine the y-intercept of the equation. Explanations and examples are provided prior to the exercises. This two-page worksheet contains ten problems.
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Get a Half-life!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore decay functions and the half-life of a substance. Through an M&M activity with calculators, students collect and graph data. They determine the linear, quadratic and exponential functions of the graph. Students...
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Power Question #1

For Teachers Higher Ed
For this power question worksheet, students explore functions and their one-to-one correspondence. This one-page worksheet contains four multi-step problems which include proofs.
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Absolute Value and Equations - Week 5

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this absolute value worksheet, learners use the absolute value function to solve functions. They identify the maximum and minimum values in triangular inequalities. This two-page worksheet contains eight problems.
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Graphing Integers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete an integer graphing activity. In this integer graphing lesson, 5th graders use coordinate grids to help them complete linear functions and integer graphing.
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Generating Points and Graphing

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a table of values to help them plot. For this algebra lesson, students plot their points on a coordinate plane creating a graph. They observe and analyze linear functions.
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Subtracting with Regrouping

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore math functions by completing a worksheet in class. In this subtraction instructional activity, 2nd graders identify the techniques used to assist in subtracting multi-digit numbers. Students complete a subtraction...
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CHOREOGRAPHING MATH

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students graph linear equations and choreograph dance moves to demonstrate them.
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Lesson #45 Graphs of Logarithmic and Exponential Functions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate exponential and logarithmic functions.  In this Pre-calculus/Calculus instructional activity, students investigate the relationship between y = ln(x) and y = e^x.  Students graph the functions and show they are...

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