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Texas Gateway: Writing a Short Story With Well Developed Conflict and Resolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Understanding the Essence, Getting an Idea, Structuring Plot, Building Conflict, and Outlining Your Own Story.
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Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Reciprocal Pronouns

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that teaches students about reciprocal pronouns in three mini-lessons: Introduction, Each Other and Each Other's, and One Another and One Another's.
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Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
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Texas Gateway: Atoms, Elements and the Periodic Table: The Atomic Model [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow looking at the contributions of scientists over time to our understanding of atomic theory. Looks at models of the atom developed by Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, and James Chadwick, as...
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Texas Gateway: Determining the Domain and Range for Quadratic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will explore how to determine the domain and range for quadratic functions. Students will use graphs, videos, and online activities to complete the tutorial.
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Texas Gateway: Average Speed

For Students 9th - 10th
Speed is a type of rate. Have you ever been asked to define the term speed? If so, you would probably answer, "how fast an object is moving." More specifically, speed is the distance an object travels in a given amount of time. This...
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Texas Gateway: Changes in Motion

For Students 6th - 9th
In this lesson, you will learn about position vs. time graphs and velocity vs. time graphs and how to use them to solve problems.
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Texas Gateway: Conservation of Mass It's the Law!

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes videos, interactives, and additional resources to help students understand the law of conservation of mass and how to balance chemical equations.
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Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements and Using Formulas: Surface Area

For Students 7th - 8th
Given application problems involving lateral or total surface area the student will estimate measurements and solve the problems.
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Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements and Using Formulas: Volume

For Students 7th - 8th
Given application problems involving volume, the student will estimate measurements and solve the problems.
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Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements/using Models and Formulas: 3 D Figures

For Students 7th - 8th
Given application problems involving 3-dimensional figures, the student will estimate measurements, including surface area and/or volume, then solve the problems.
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Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements: Area

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problem situations, students will be able to estimate and solve for area of polygons and other shapes.
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Texas Gateway: Evaluating Methods of Sampling From a Set of Data

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a problem situation, the student will evaluate a method of sampling to determine the validity of an inference made from the set of data.
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Texas Gateway: Evaluating Solutions for Reasonableness

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problem situations, the student will determine if the solutions are reasonable.
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Texas Gateway: Exploring Probability With Dependent Events

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
The student will investigate and develop the concept of dependent probability, including formalizing procedures related to dependent probability and applications of dependent probability.
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Texas Gateway: Expressing Numbers in Scientific Notation

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problem situations, the student will express numbers in scientific notation.
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Texas Gateway: Finding Specific Function Values (Verbal/symbolic)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given a verbal and symbolic representations of a function, the student will find specific function values.
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Texas Gateway: Finding the Probabilities of Dependent and Independent Events

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given problem situations, the student will find the probability of the dependent and independent events.
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Texas Gateway: Formulating and Solving Square Root Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity provides an opportunity for students to use a square root equation to model a situation and then use the model to make predictions.
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Texas Gateway: Generalizing About Populations From Random Samples

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a population with known characteristics, students will be able to use a variety of methods to generate random samples of the same size in order to understand how a random sample is representative of a population.
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Texas Gateway: Generalizing Proportions From Similar Figures

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a pair of similar figures, including dilations, students will be able to generalize that the lengths of corresponding sides are proportional.
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Texas Gateway: Generating Different Representations of Relationships

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problems that include data, the student will generate different representations, such as a table, graph, equation, or verbal description.
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Texas Gateway: Graphing Dilations, Reflections, and Translations

For Students 8th Standards
Given a coordinate plane, the student will graph dilations, reflections, and translations, and use those graphs to solve problems.
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Handout
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Texas Gateway: Interactive Math Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
The Interactive Math Glossary is provided by the Texas Education Agency to help teachers explore and understand mathematics vocabulary.