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Curated OER

Pizza! Pizza!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders tally, sort, and organize pizza orders from monthly school sales. They create an advertising campaign to promote the School Pizza Sale, record the data in graph form, compare and contrast the tallies throughout the year,...
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Texas Instruments

Function Notation - Texas Instruments

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Using a TI-Nspire calculator, learners will work to better understand function notation and input/output functions. They write equations with a function symbols, identify what makes an equation a function, and graph lines in order to...
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Virginia Department of Education

Adding and Subtracting Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Your learners will enjoy playing a game as a motivator to learning and remembering the adding and subtracting of fractions.
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Virginia Department of Education

States of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Scientists have been studying exothermic reactions before they were cool. The lesson plan begins with a discussion and a demonstration of heat curves. Scholars then determine the heat of fusion of ice and the heat needed...
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Cornell University

Thinking with the Eyes

For Students 9th
Objects are larger (or smaller) than they appear! Scholars use a laboratory investigation to explore the difference between resolution and magnification. The activity allows them to calculate the size of the field of view of their light...
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EngageNY

Completing the Square (part 2)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Give classes confidence in completing the square with a resource that develops the process of completing the square of more complex problems, including fractions and values greater than one. It then uses quadratic modeling for...
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Curated OER

Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use logical arguments and inductive reasoning to make or disprove conjectures. After observing a teacher led demonstration, students discover that the deductive process narrows facts to a few possible conclusions. In groups,...
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Jordan School District

Picture Frames and Algebra

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers create a method for finding the area of a fame for a picture and then transfer their shared methods into algebraic expressions. They develop the algebraic language to communicate and solve problems effectively and...
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Curated OER

Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 11th
This is a great lesson from start to finish. With partners and on their own, learners write and solve linear equations and inequalities. They use manipulatives, group work, and an included worksheet to make magic with their problem...
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Curated OER

Highs and Lows

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Plot data using the number line and discuss how negative numbers are used in math and science. Sixth and seventh graders share their graph with the class and provide an explanation for their plotting.
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Curated OER

Using Key Words to Unlock Math Word Problems

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Learners act as math coaches to solve word problems. In this math word problems lesson, students brainstorm key words in math operations, create flash cards to review relationships between words and operations, coach each other in the...
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Curated OER

Investigation - The Bakery Shop

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students participate in mathematical music and subtraction using their fingers when indicated in the song. In this music/math lesson, students count their fingers and  pretend their fingers are cookies. Students sing the song and...
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Curated OER

Direct and Inverse Variation

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders participate in two data collection activities that involve direct and inverse variation. In the pre-assessment, 8th graders categorize numerical, graphical, and verbal representations as linear or nonlinear and determine...
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Curated OER

Toy Stories: Word Problems

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this word problem worksheet, students solve 5 word problems. Students write the mathematical equation beneath the problems, which are accompanied by pictures.
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Curated OER

Customary Measurement Conversions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover in hands-on activities the relationships between the measures. They work in groups to create conversion tables using familiar measuring tools. Students solve problems requiring conversions.
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Illustrative Mathematics

High School Graduation

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
An exercise in finding the approximate time that a name would be called at a graduation. Estimating time may be difficult for some of the class, so this resource would not be a good choice for learning this standard. It does end with a...
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Curated OER

Fairy Tale Math

For Teachers 2nd
Have class members rewrite a favorite fairy tale in order to incorporate numerical information. For inspiration, the teacher provides an example written by another second grader. These modified stories are then used to write word...
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Curated OER

Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages Got You Down? "Tri" This!

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore number sense by creating a math presentation in class. In this parts of a whole lesson, students define and discuss the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages before completing a problem worksheet in...
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Curated OER

Exploring Geometric Figures

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore mathematics by participating in hands-on daily activities. Learners identify a list of different shapes and classify them by shape, size, sides and vertices. They utilize tangrams and geometric pieces to gain...
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Curated OER

Learning Unit: The Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Middle and high schoolers research the life of Pythagoras and the Pythagorean theorem. They write a short biography of Pythagoras and learn to apply the theorem in their study of right triangles.
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Curated OER

Representing Patterns & Evaluating Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Write algebraic expressions, determine patterns, and evaluate expressions in a real-world context. Learners engage in a series of collaborative activities to identify, model, and give variables for real-world patterns. They write...
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National Security Agency

Systems of Equations and Inequalities

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High school classes can use manipulatives too! Offer hands-on, interactive lessons that venture away from the typical day in your algebra class. Young mathematicians will be involved in collaborative learning, visual...
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Curated OER

Using Algebra to Explore Problem Space

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students apply their knowledge of math by rewriting word problems using equations. In this word problem lesson, students build upon previous knowledge as they set up the correct steps to solve word problems. This lesson is full of hints...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Bloodstain Pattern Doesn't Lie......

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
An interesting instructional activity on hypothesizing about the diameter of a drop of blood that is splattered. To test their theories, learners work in groups to make blood droplets splatter from different heights. They use graphed...