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The Price Is Right - Grocery Store Prices
Eighth graders use the unit price to compare which local grocery store has the best prices. Assign students to work with a partner and a role. One person is the recorder and the other is the mathematician.
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Sloping and Intersecting a Linear Function
Learners examine and discuss typical linear equations, and the difference between a linear and nonlinear equation. They observe examples of linear equations and complete a worksheet.
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Making Good Investments
Students compare different aspects of investing money from traditional savings accounts to money market accounts. They research investment accounts at local banks and compare them.
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Patterns in Pascal's Triangle
Students examine the patterns that exist in Pascal's Triangle. They explore multiples and factors. Sudents use an applet to create and color the multiples in Pascal's Triangle.
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Finding Patterns in Fractals
Students discover patterns and sequences. They use a website to explore patterns and fractals. Students share their discovery of fractals and their patterns with the class. They develop a list of patterns used in everyday life.
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Every Breath You Take
Pupils explore the nature of the air we breathe by observing petri dishes that have accumulated particulate matter from the atmosphere. Students make mathematical calculations and inferences about the effect of this matter on breathing....
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Complexity
Learners perform mathematical operations on complex numbers. After a lecture/demo, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice performing operations on complex numbers.
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How Cool Is Your Environment?
Students study the formulas for calculating heat energy and how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. They apply the formulas on a worksheet.
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Area graphics for 7th graders
Students randomly select dimensions for three geometric shapes (square, right triangle and circle). From the graphs they compare and contrast the graphical results of each shape.
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Properties of Fractals
Students build a working definition of regular fractal, look carefully at the concepts of dimension and scale, and are introduced to logarithms. They solve simple exponential equations for the exponent both by trial and error and using...
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Million Dollar Gift
Third graders create a box big enough to hold a million dollars. This is a project fun to do near the winter holidays with inexpensive gifts included in the boxes. This hands-on lesson very effectively demonstrates the concept of volume.
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Who's Going to the Convention?
Students practice planning budgets as they create a budget for ten employees of a company to attend a professional convention. They use the Internet, and spreadsheet software to complete their assignment.
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Properties of Fractals
Students build a working definition of a regular fractal, they measure the concepts of dimensions and scale, they explore the concept of a logarithm and they attempt to solve simple exponential equations for the exponent both by trial...
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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.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Ratio and Proportion
Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Conversion of Decimals, Fractions, and Percent
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify equivalent ratios as fractions, decimals, and percents.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Converting Decimals to Percents
Practice expressing a decimal like 0.546 as a percent. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Converting Percents to Decimals
Practice expressing a percent like 12.3% as a decimal. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Relating Decimals, Fractions and Percent
Get independent practice relating ratios, decimals, fractions and percents. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: All About Percents and Ratios
This AAA Math tutorial covers calculating percents, relationships of percents to fractions and decimals, and uses of percents.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Decimals as Percents
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Write percents as decimals and decimals as percents
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Comparison of Ratios in Decimal Form
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Write and compare ratios in decimal form
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Number: Relate Fractions and Decimals
Express fractions as decimals and how they relate to each other.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ratios & Percentages: Converting Decimals to Percents
The mathematics tutorial examines how to convert decimals to percents. Students learn about the concept through notes, examples, and practice problems.