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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Solving Real World Problems Involving Decimals

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders will be able to solve problems involving adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing multi-digit decimal quantities.
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Website
Other

Stage of Life: How Teens Feel About Real World Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
Hundreds of students share a personal story in which they faced an obstacle, challenge, issue or problem during the school year and share how they dealt with it when they answered a writing contest prompt.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Solving Percent Problems (Day 1)

For Teachers 6th
Solving percent problems using real world scenarios.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Density Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Solve problems concerning real-world situations using your knowledge of volume, surface area, and density. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Recipe for a Great Word Problem

For Teachers 2nd
The big idea of this lesson is to have students write their own word problems to help them have a better understanding of mathematical operations, as they relate to real world scenarios.
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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Cameron's Trip

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students solve multiplication and division real-world problems in this interactive web lesson.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quadratic Word Problems (Standard Form)

For Students 9th - 10th
Solve real-world word problems that involve quadratic models. In this exercise, that models are given in standard form.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Linear Equations Word Problems: Tables

For Students 9th - 10th
Solve word problems about real world relationships that are given in tables.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Linear Equations Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
Solve word problems about real world relationships that are given in formulas. Functions are written using function notation.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Quadratic Word Problems: Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Launching a rocket up into the air, throwing a textbook down off a rooftop, or tossing a baseball out to someone in center field are all examples of projectile motion and quadratic word problems. Situations like these are explored here,...
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life

For Students K - 1st
Read about what math has to do with cooking, chances of winning a game, even decorating your home. Teachers may want to peruse this site for ideas about real world applications in their lesson planning.
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Pythagoras Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn about the Pythagoras theorem, its derivations, and equations followed by solved real-world problems on the Pythagoras theorem triangle and squares.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quadratic Word Problems (Standard Form)

For Students 9th - 10th
Solve real-world word problems that involve quadratic models. In this exercise, that models are given in standard form. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive...
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Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Mathematical Models

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a good discussion of how and why models are used in Mathematics to represent problems in the real world. It explains different ways to model a problem, e.g., with a formula or an illustration, and what can be learned from them....
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Interactive
Quia

Ixl Learning: Divide Fractions by Whole Numbers Using Models

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Practice dividing fractions by whole numbers with numbers using models.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 1.5 Basic and Applied Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Get an overview of applied science where people use and apply information obtained through basic science.
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Lesson Plan
NumberNut

Number Nut: Breaking Down Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Discover fractions in the world around us in this instructional activity that also examines how fractions are divided. Detailed examples and pictures presented to explain this concept along with key vocabulary. A brief introduction to...
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Activity
Rice University

Rice University: The Hand Squeeze

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...
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Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Polynomial Equations of a Higher Degree

For Students 10th - 12th
The lesson discusses solving and graphing polynomial equations of higher degree. The resource consists of class notes, calculator tips, examples, and practice problems with solutions. The teacher resource includes an activity that...
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Other

Helping With math.com: Ratios and Unit Rates

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for students to review the skills.

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