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How to Calculate Your Age by Chocolate

For Students 7th - 12th
In this math puzzle worksheet, students follow detailed directions to find their age. They begin with the number of times per week they eat chocolate. Their final answer tells how much chocolate they want or eat as well as their age.
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The Price is Right?

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders read "A Primer on Gasoline Prices" and complete a worksheet on the price of gas. They discuss supply and demand and what a consumer can do about prices at the pump.
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Examine Addition Properties

For Students 5th - 8th
In this addition properties worksheet, students complete problems involving the commutative, associative, and identity properties. Students complete 5 problems.
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Addition Properties

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this addition properties worksheet, students use addition properties to answer the six word problems about the national parks of the United States.
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Magic Squares

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this magic squares worksheet, students practice their addition skills as they solve four 3x3 magic square puzzles by identifying the common sums.
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What is the Smallest Number of Pourings Needed?

For Students 10th - 12th
In this word problem worksheet, students solve the problem of how to give two students two quarts of milk each with an empty five-quart pail and an empty four-quart pail.  The students are provided with two ten-quart cans full of milk. ...
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Math Club #2b: Training for the Math Olympics

For Students 7th
In this Math Olympics instructional activity, 7th graders work in groups to solve 2 math puzzles requiring logic and problem solving skills.
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Multiplication Algorithm (1)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders in a 3rd grade math class make connections from prior instruction and mastery to solve problems in new learning situations. Using logical thinking and prior knowledge to solve current math problems is the focus of this...
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Are You Absolutely Sure of the Value?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders develop an examineing of absolute value through real world situations. They develop an examineing of when absolute value can be used in a given situation.
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Using Representations to Model Problems

For Teachers 5th
student make predictions or draw conclusions based on physical and visual representations of profit and sales. They model problems with physical materials and visual representations, and use models, graphs and tables to draw conclusions...
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It Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners understand and reinforce how numbers are assigned to objects, as well as think about more, less, or equal values. In this lesson, students are asked to describe, compare, and classify plants. They should be able to use numbers...
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Odd Is In

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils play a game with coins and then use reasoning skills to develop a strategy for winning the game.
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The Clumsy Tiler N (Metric)

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore patterns and geometric sequencing. Students devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically. Students solve real life problems. They demonstrate, with cardboard pieces, fraction and...
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Growing Up

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students solve a given problem and explain their thinking using two number sentences to match their answer. One number sentence must use addition, one must use multiplication, and students must explain their answers. Includes sample...
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The Farmer's Sheep

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use problem solving skills, logical thinking, and their ability to work sequentially in order to solve an algebra problem. They listen to the problem read aloud by the teacher and devise a plan in order to solve the problem.
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Shaking Hands

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students use diagrams or lists to show relationships. They also identify the pattern of triangular numbers. The mathematics behind situations provide a way of problem solving to examine the answers.
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Body Changes in Space

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explain the cause of and effects of fluid shift in a microgravity environment. Students identify the effects of microgravity during long duration space flight. Students describe research on cardiovascular effects in microgravity...
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Equation of State Problem Set

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate their understanding of the equation of state by computing the gas constant from air properties. They use online research tools and apply integrated math problem-solving strategies to solve problems outside the realm...
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Math in My World

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders record in their journals the many ways in which mathematics is part of their world.
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A Statistical Study on the Letters of the Alphabet

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students see that there are mathematical rules that can affect our use of the English language. Calculate the probability of picking any letter at random from a piece of English literature.
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Patterns All Around (Centers)

For Teachers K
Students identify, extend, and create patterns of sounds, physical movements, and concrete objects. They brainstorm patterns found in the classroom. Students use mathematical attributes to identify patterns and predict what comes next.
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Matching Pairs

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students examine the probability of the various findings in a game and determine the odds of winning. They differentiate between the facts of odds versus probability. Students use higher order thinking skills to explain how a problem is...
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Moana's Watch

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe a digital watch and understand that it loses 11 seconds a day. Students work on the problem and focus their thinking on the calculations that they are using. They then share solutions.
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Adam's Watch

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use their watches to tell the time while the teacher lists their responses on the board along with the reasons for them (set incorrectly, gain/lose time). They solve the problem in pairs and focus their thinking on the...