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Woman Power!!! Mathematics Camp
Students explore mathematics by researching stereotypes. In this gender bias instructional activity, students participate in discussions where they identify traditional careers according to their own gender. Female students attend summer...
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Holiday Market Basket Information
Students practice with calculation of a price index using a fictitious market basket. They apply higher level problem-solving skills and develop an awareness of multicultural holiday rituals.
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Caloric Burning Activities
Fourth graders use problem solving, decision making and basic math skills to calculate calories used during different activities. They determine the relation between food intake and activity. Students also figure out the activity,...
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Investigating Area Using Tangrams
Tenth graders connect the history of geometry to problem solving. In this geometry lesson, 10th graders investigate polygons through hands on manipulatives and solve problems relating to parallelograms and triangles. They calculate the...
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When Life Serves You Lemons!
Students build their own lemonade stand. For this problem solving lesson, students measure the materials needed to build a stand and make lemonade. They find the cost of producing the lemonade and the profit they will make.
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Determining Center of Gravity
Learners complete calculations involving the structure and properties of matter. They engage in a variety of problem solving activities to help them determine the center of gravity.
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House Design and Installation of Products
Students design a "dream house" and plan to install flooring, tile and other products that are bought by a certain measurement. Problem solving be used in determining how much of each product to use and the total cost of each installed.
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Lego Robotics: Measuring Speed
Students build and program a LEGO robotic car as well as measure and graph its speed. They acquire familiarity with principles of construction, motion, design and problem solving. They compare a robot's speed over two different surfaces...
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Problem Solving Using Coin Identity and Coin Value
Students identify characteristics of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter, match the value of coins, and practice using money for a purchase.
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Revolutionary War, Timeline and Causes
Third graders explore important events leading up to the Revolutionary War. In this Revolutionary War lesson, 3rd graders work in pairs to research dates and important events prior to the Revolutionary War. Class discussion is followed...
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Lessen the Loan
Middle-schoolers explore the concept linear equations. They use the internet to navigate through videos and problems. Pupils problem solve to determine rates of change, slope, and x and y-intercepts.
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A Package of Pringle
Here is a problem-solving lesson that has learners take the role of a packaging expert to design an inexpensive means of packaging a potato chip. It could benefit from having more specific detail about the lesson itself, but it does make...
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Let the Rain Come Down!
Second graders construct a bar graph comparing local precipitation to that of the Yucatan. In this graphing instructional activity, 2nd graders will use conversions and problem solving strategies.
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Ordered Pairs and Linear Systems
In this ordered pair and linear systems worksheet, students problem solve two equations involving ordered pairs and solving linear systems by graphing.
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Money Matters
Students practice spending money by completing math word sentences. In this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money. Students...
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Cool Tools to Solve Challenging Word Problems
Young scholars solve math word problems. In this cool tools lesson, students are introduced to the K-N-W-S method. Young scholars work in groups and complete a worksheet using this method of learning.
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Working Out Word Problems
Learners study word problems and learn to identify key words to solve the problems. In this word problems lesson, students role play as detectives to find key words in addition and subtraction word problems. Learners then create a poster...
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Math Jeopardy
Young scholars, in teams, play Math Jeopardy against each other as a way to reinforce their skills.
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Building Word Problems
Sixth graders study addition and subtraction facts. In equal groups, they play a race game to correctly solve addition and subtraction problems. Using a PowerPoint presentation, the teacher demonstrates how to write word problems and...
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Consecutive Numbers
Like all of the Problem Solving units, this one aims to introduce students to the underlying ideas of mathematics through a problem. The problem here requires a knowledge of arithmetic and the use of some algebra. In this unit we see how...
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Math Activity: "Snake"
Fourth graders explore patterns by participating in a class math activity. For this early algebra lesson, 4th graders utilize a die and chart to keep record of a snake game in which students must utilize a math function to solve a...
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Learning Styles in Math
Students discover which learning style works best for them in a math setting. In this math comprehension lesson, students create different combinations of numbers that equal the sum of 11. Students determine if they are better visual,...
Illustrative Mathematics
Quinoa Pasta 1
Here is a great opportunity to introduce your mathematicians to a food they may never have heard of, quinoa. It may help to show a short video on quinoa, or make some quinoa for the class to try. Once they get over how to say quinoa,...
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Problem Solving with Batting Averages
Fifth graders use data from an Excel document to analyze and predict trends in batting averages.