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Irregular Fractals
Students study and research irregular fractals and construct a few based on their research. Students practice pattern recognition skills and plane geometry skills calculating dimensions on the Fractured Pictures activity.
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Words To Numbers
Seventh graders explore the four steps to problem solving. After observing a problem solving chart and discussing each step, 7th graders solve individually assigned word problems. Upon completion, they share their information with the...
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Mathematical Magazines
Learners 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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Tile My Bathroom Floor
Seventh graders create a bathroom floor plan using measurement math. In this measurement lesson, 7th graders use measurement, proportionality, estimation, and area to design a floor plan. Students design floor tiles using centimeter...
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How Many Lemons Does It Take?
Young scholars discuss and explore different methods that can be used to estimate from the video. They practice estimation skills by recreating a sample problem from the video. Web sites containing other estimation activities are included
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Reading to Calculate
Students explore uses of the calculator. They explore using reading strategies to solve problems. Students recognize when calculators are useful. They construct real life situations for calculator use.
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Thinking Systematically
Sixth graders solve real life mathematics problems. After reading a given problem, 6th graders gather and organize data into a table. They explore a pattern, and from this, derive a formula. Students solve the problems multiple ways...
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Go Yankees!
Students use the internet to research the New York Yankees baseball team. After gathering their information, they discuss the challenges faced by the team and how they were overcome. They end the lesson by examining the math and...
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A Snap at Geometry
Students study geometric images and polyhedrons. In this geometry lesson plan, students complete several activities to learn about geometric shapes and classify polyhedrons from polygons. Students watch a video, complete a web-directed...
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Geometry and Symmetry
Students examine tessellations and their geometric properties. The lesson and discussions may be used to develop students' understanding of polygons and symmetry as well as their ability to analyze patterns.
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Families
Students examine Canadian census data from 1981 and 2001 to investigate how the family structure has changed. They investigate important aspects of family life.
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Chesapeake Bay Population Studies
Students determine how to use a quarter meter quadrant to find population density, relative density, frequency and how to calculate a diversity index while participating in a virtual field trip. They study how to establish a Correlation...
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The Mandelbrot Set
Students explore the Mandelbrot Set. They are introduced to the concept of a complex number and function in order to motivate the discussion of Julia and Mandelbrot sets. Students investigate fractals and how they are built.
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Spotlight on Students
First graders participate in social skills activities at the beginning of they school year that including graphing work. Each student acts as the "Top Banana" while other students ask them questions about their likes and dislikes. As a...
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Graphing Integers On a Coordinate Plane
Seventh graders explore the concept of graphing integers on a coordinate plane. In this graphing integers on a coordinate plane lesson, 7th graders discuss scenarios where coordinate systems are used in real life. Students represent...
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Hare and Lynx Population
Fourth graders study changes in animal population. In this graphing lesson, 4th graders create graphs from information read to them about hares and lynx populations. They will describe patterns of change in the graphs and discuss why...
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Buying My First Car
Students pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.
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Circles and Clocks, Shapes and Time
Students work in groups to research clocks and practice telling time. For this telling time lesson, students use the computer program ProQuest to study circles, including radius and diameter, and practice drawing circles using a compass....
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How Many Cards Do We Need to Display the Dates of the Month?
Students complete activities to study the concept of place value notation. In this place value instructional activity, students use cards for the days of the month that only number from 1 to 9. Students find a subtraction pattern to...
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Area of Solids
Students find the area of rectangular solids and cylinders by cutting them into flat pieces and adding the areas.
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Deer Tracks
Students use satellite images to track to movement patterns of deer and examine deer behavior. They write stories about a day in the life of a field scientist.
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Apples A"Peel" To Me
Second graders study the characteristics and uses for apples through this series of ten lessons. They look at the importance of apples in the US. They read literature about apples, graph, sort, and measure apples, and make apple snacks....
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Database Lesson
Students access the Internet to locate data regarding their assigned mathematician. They organize their notes onto a data form, then enter it into a database, and sort the database according to given criteria.
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The Bigger they Are . . .
Pupils do a variety of data analyses of real-life basketball statistics from the NBA. They chart and graph rebounding, scoring, shot blocking and steals data which are gathered from the newspaper sports section.
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