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Dairy Barn

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Agriculture is truly a math-based profession! Help the dairy farmer determine the supplies needed to complete his barn. Using given dimensions, learners build equations and use units to determine the correct amount of materials.
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Assessment
Balanced Assessment

Plenty of Pentagons

For Students 6th - 8th
Why are only four colors needed to color webs from regular pentagons, not five? An assessment task requires young mathematicians to first construct regular pentagons using a compass and straightedge, then has them consider a shape formed...
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Curated OER

Similar Polygons

For Students 10th
In this similar polygons instructional activity, 10th graders solve 10 different problems that include determining various similar polygons. First, they determine the perimeter of a second triangle given the measures of all angles in the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Pennies, Pennies and More Pennies

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Learners determine the number of pennies needed to fill a room.  For this pennies lesson plan, students work in groups to determine the number of pennies needed to fill a room.  They compute the probability of the head of a pin landing...
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Curated OER

Tantalizing Tessellations Lesson III: Creating a Slide Translation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore tessellations and the artwork of M.C. Escher. They view and discuss a video about M.C. Escher, create a slide template out of cardboard, and create a poster with their tessellation pattern.
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Curated OER

Developing an Understanding for Square Roots

For Students 8th - 12th
For this algebra worksheet, students discover properties of squares while making squares with a Geoboard. There are two charts to complete and 15 questions.
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Curated OER

Parallelograms and Triangles

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this parallelogram and triangle worksheet, students answer 10 word problems regarding the area and perimeter of triangles and the area of parallelograms.
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Curated OER

History and the Approximations of pi

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate Pi. In this mathematics lesson, learners discuss the history of Pi and determine how the approximation of Pi was discovered.
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Mathwire

Graph Each Ordered Pair - Five Worksheets

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
This resource is composed of five separate worksheets on ordered pairs. After plotting each ordered pair, learners label each point, connect the points to create a figure, identify the polygon type, find the perimeter and area of the...
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Printables
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unit 6 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 3)

For Teachers 3rd
A set of 49 math vocabulary cards ranges from angle to irregular polygon to parallel lines. Each sheet contains two cards: one with the word printed in bold text and the other with the definition.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Dog Gone Again!

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Here is a real-life activity! Learners must plan the dimensions of a rectangular fence to reign in a runaway dog. They survey what shape and size fence is needed and use formulas to find perimeter and area of the fence. They explore what...
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EngageNY

Cyclic Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What does it mean for a quadrilateral to be cyclic? Mathematicians first learn what it means for a quadrilateral to be cyclic. They then investigate angle measures and area in such a quadrilateral.
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American Statistical Association

Exploring Geometric Probabilities with Buffon’s Coin Problem

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Scholars create and perform experiments attempting to answer Buffon's Coin problem. They discover the relationships between geometry and probability, empirical and theoretical probabilities, and area of a circle and square.
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Curated OER

Inscribing a Square in a Circle

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Inscribing a square in a circle brings up a number of interesting geometry topics including triangle congruence and how to prove a quadrilateral is a square. This activity is followed up by finding the area of the square and determining...
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EngageNY

Multiplying and Factoring Polynomial Expressions (part 1)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Polynomial multiplication and factoring go hand in hand. Why not teach them together. This resource begins with an area model for distributing a monomial and then connects the process to factoring the GCF. Learners then advance to...
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Curated OER

Connecting Algebra and Geometry Through Coordinates

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This unit on connecting algebra and geometry covers a number of topics including worksheets on the distance formula, finding the perimeter and area of polynomials, the slope formula, parallel and perpendicular lines, parallelograms,...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Estimating With Fire

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Watch the damage from a forest fire in this interactive simulation activity that challenges learners to estimate the burn area using different approaches. Learners are given a worksheet to track the different burn patterns and practice...
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Curated OER

Fashion Day

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice using basic measurements to solve word problems.They also investigate finding the perimeter of different polygons and define the characteristics to classify the shape as a polygon.
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Curated OER

Geometry in Tessellations

For Teachers All
Students examine tessellations and their geometric properties. Students also develop a better understanding of lines, planes, angles, and polygons.
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Curated OER

A Thin Inch

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the importance of everyone using the same standard measurements and practice a variety of measurement skills. They determine the area of polygons and surface area and volume of three-dimensional shapes. Each student...
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Curated OER

Karen's Tiles

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate how perimeter changes as area changes to see the relation between area and perimeter for similar shapes. They then students answer the question if the area of the rectangle increase, does its perimeter have to increase?
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Curated OER

Perimeters, Patterns, and Conjectures

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover patterns and write conjectures relating to perimeters and polygons. Working in cooperative learning groups, they use manipulatives and graphic organizers to solve problems then answer a series of questions in which they...
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Curated OER

Around and Around We Go

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover that a polygon is a closed figure formed by line segments, and that the perimeter of a polygon is the sum of the lengths of its sides. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain lots of practice with...
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Curated OER

Cut, Construct and Think - 6

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify polygons and calculate perimeter. In this geometric shapes lesson, students complete a worksheet identifying various polygons and calculating the perimeter of triangles and quadrilaterals.

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