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Measurement: Perimeter and Area

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this perimeter and area instructional activity, students learn the formulas for perimeter and area and view model problems using tiles. Students work in groups to solve practice problems. Students define perimeter and area and explain...
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Bead It!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use colored beads in two problems and explore the use of proportional reasoning as a problem solving method. Working Students, in groups, explain their reasoning strategies orally, and through drawings.
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Another Dartboard

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders solve a word problem that involves predicting probabilities of an event and making deductions from probabilities. They discuss dice and coins and the probability of rolling each number or face of the coin, and in small...
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Volume and Surface Area: Which Is More?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the volume and surface area of three dimensional figures. Through the use of video, students discover three dimensional shapes, their uses in real-life applications, and methods used to calculate their volume and surface...
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Chart Your Course

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore change represented in graphs comparing distance and time. They exchange and share their graphs. Students interpret and create distance versus time line-graphs, and write stories based on these graphs. They interpret a...
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Graphs and Functions

For Teachers All
Students are introduced to plotting functions on the Cartesian coordinate plane seen several categories of functions, including lines and parabolas
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A Pocketful of Change

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners study the meaning, symbolism, and value of U.S. coins, especially the quarter. They conduct a survey of coins in students' possession, graphing the results to show frequency distribution and drawing inferences about the U.S....
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Prime and Composite Numbers with use of manipulatives (Elementary, Mathematics)

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students learn what prime and composite numbers are. They learn how to identify them by working in a group and demonstrating an understanding of one work problem with 100% accuracy using the manipulatives provided.
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Water Resources

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the differences between surface water and ground water. They collect data using maps and graphs and investigate a Texas river basin and a nearby aquifer. They complete a written report of their findings regarding the...
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More or Less Pigs in the Pen

For Teachers K
Students practice simple addition and subtraction. They identify relationships among whole numbers.
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Grade 2: Texas Problem Solving

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use numerical data about Texas to write and solve real-life problems involving addition and subtraction (or multiplication and division). They work in pairs to choose three numerical facts about Texas to use to make up...
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And Around We Go!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders conduct a survey and collect data to construct a bar graph that will then be changed into a circle graph. With the bar graph, 6th graders compare estimated fractions and percentages and estimate percentages. With the circle...
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Pepe Cleaners

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders gather data to determine the relationships between the base and height of rectangles with fixed perimeters and express the relationships using words and symbols. Students build rectangles with pipe cleaners. They create...
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Pascal's Triangle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study Pascal's triangle. They construct their own version of Pascal's triangle, and relate some of the uses for it. While working through this process, students practice their integer multiplication and division skills.
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Shh...It's a Secret!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore codes, decode secret messages, and create codes of their own to use with their friends. They examine the use of gestures, letters, symbols and numbers in codes.
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Meteorological Predictions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make a link between prediction and hypothesis in math and science. Based on data collected over one week, students evaluate the predictions of local weather forecasters, compare the predicted outcomes to the actual weather...
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Tessellations: Geometry and Symmetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils examine tesselllations and their geometric properties. They have a better knowledge of polygons, can identify types of symmetry in tessellations. Also students use visulization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve...
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Line of Best Fit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of linear regression. In this linear regression lesson, students do a Barbie bungee activity where they collect linear data. High schoolers plot their data using a scatter plot. Students determine a...
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Box Plots

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students review the concept of median, explore how to calculate quartiles for any size data set and experience how to build a box plot.
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Virtual Field Trip: Lodging and Meals

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students calculate the costs for lodging and meals for a virtual field trip. They calculate the number of nights lodging needed for road and city travel and the number of meals needed, the costs for each, and input the data using...
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders measure their feet and their parents' feet, record data on computer-generated graphs, and calculate and record mean, median, and mode.
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Mathematical Models with Applications: Two-Point Perspective Drawing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars use interactive geometry exploration software (GES) to create a two-point perspective drawing. They explore basic geometry concepts in and geometric transformations of the model of a rectangular prism viewed from different...
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Linear Systems

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this multiplication of vectors worksheet, learners prove that the dot product operation is commutative. They normalize a vector so it has the same direction with a magnitude of one. Students use the angle formula to confirm...
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Constructing Tangrams

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders visualize and identify geometric shapes after applying transformations on a coordinate plane. In this tangrams lesson plan, 7th graders construct a set of tangrams and then answer extension questions related to...

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