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New Mexico State University

Atlantean Dodgeball

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Develop ratios within sporting games. Class members watch a video about dodgeball and see how coaches compare the scores. Pupils then work with ratios to compare the scores throughout the tournament. Using their knowledge of ratios, they...
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Money Math Lessons for Life

For Teachers 7th - 9th
An outstanding lesson on financial literacy is here for you. Learners are presented with six scenarios, then compute the amount of savings they will have in their accounts. They complete a series of exercises designed to teach them that...
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Handout
Mt. San Antonio Collage

Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Start with the basics and move up the exponential ladder to master a variety of problem-solving and application problems. The problems are heavy on exponential growth and decay, compound interest, and natural log.  
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Activity
Biology Corner

Pipe Cleaner Babies

For Students 9th - 12th
Ever been told you have your father's eyes? How did it happen? Young biologists get a hands-on experience in meiotic gene expression with a fun pairs-based activity. Participants use pipe cleaner chromosomes with trait beads to make...
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Beyond Benign

A Green(er) Redox Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Do some experimentation with reduction-oxidation! Stoichiometry superstars use a single-replacement reaction to study limiting reactant, theoretical yield, and the reactivity of metals through a lab activity. The teacher's guide includes...
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Majority Rules

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students practice the voting process by taking a group vote using fractions or percents. In this voting process instructional activity, students review the voting process and vote using hands or a private ballot. Students tally the...
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Circle the Earth - Explore Surface Types on a Journey around Earth

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use CERES percent coverage surface data with a world map in locating landmasses and bodies of water at Earth's Equator.
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Mining an Ore

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate how to determine the percent composition of a mineral in an ore. In this mining an ore lesson plan, students use chocolate chips cookies to represent an ore and they remove precious minerals (the chocolate...
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Worksheet
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Graphing Data

For Students 7th - 8th
In this graphing data worksheet, students solve and complete 8 different word problems related to graphing data given. First, they determine the percent of people who do not believe in any of the phenomena described and explain. Then,...
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Ratios and Proportions

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students solve problems involving percents and ratios. In this algebra lesson, students convert decimals to percents and percents to decimals. They solve problems involving algebraic expressions and four different kinds of percent problems.
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How to Convert Percentages to Fractions and Decimals

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students can learn how to convert percents to decimals and fractions using 10x10 grids.
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Making a Circle Graph of a Sample Budget

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine a sample budget and categorize the entries as a group. Then in small groups they convert budget category totals to percents and degrees to make a circle graph related to a sample budget.
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Moooving to Low-fat Milk

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete two handouts. In this healthy beverages lesson, 3rd graders compare whole, two percent and skim milks. Students use labels to help choose healthy beverages. Students complete an "All About Milk" and "Calculating...
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Grade Expectations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how the ten percent plan and other education initiatives promote diversity, as well as about their practical effects on students from different types of educational and economic backgrounds. They discuss college...
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Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners use a sponge and water model to explore the concept of relative humidity and create a percent scale. They define humidity and saturation, build a simple humidity/saturation model, collect, predict and interpret data, and create...
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Build a Skittles Graph

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Learners construct a bar graph with a given set of data. They calculate the ratio and percent of the data. Students discuss alternate ways of graphing the data as well as multiple strategies to approach the task.
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Ratio Basketball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in teams of four, practice shooting free throws while mentally converting the ratio of shots made to those thrown into a percent. They chart and record the ratio, decimal and actual percentage earned after each round.
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Worksheet
Math Mammoth

Volume Problems

For Students 7th - 9th
In this volume problem instructional activity, students determine the volume of various objects. They compare similar objects and determine the percent of increase and decrease of the surface area and volume. This one-page instructional...
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Worksheet
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Finding Concentration

For Students 9th - 12th
In this determining concentration worksheet, high schoolers are given the equations to find the concentration of a solution in grams per milliliter, to determine the concentration in parts per million, to determine percent mass and...
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Where in the World? Your Relative Location

For Teachers 5th - 6th
For this geography worksheet, students complete a graph showing their location on the planet earth. Students determine what percent of all people on Earth are on their continent, in their country and part of their town.
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Worksheet
Math Mammoth

Circle

For Students 7th - 8th
For this circle worksheet, students find the area and circumference of circles and compare their size using percents. Students determine the are of composite figures made of circles and rectangles. This one-page worksheet contains six...
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Worksheet
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Mixture Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve word problems related to mixtures. They figure out cost per kg, concentration of chemicals and percent of mixtures. There are 12 problems with an answer key.
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ACC Basketball Statistics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use math skills and create a spreadsheet. In this statistics and computer skills lesson, students gather ACC basketball statistics, convert fractions to decimals and then percents. Students use the gathered information to create...
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Worksheet
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The SUV Gas Problem

For Students 8th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, learners calculate the cost of gas based on miles driven in a SUV. They calculate how long it takes to recover a certain percent of gas mileage. There is an answer key.

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