Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Square Roots Video
This video illustrates the concepts of square roots, slope, and the Pythagorean Theorem as they are used in designing and constructing skate park rails, ramps, and pipes. An interactive activity is also included where students are able...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Square Roots (Object Interactive)
Explore a set of perfect squares, as well as their square roots using this highly interactive math resource. In addition, students will get to look at estimates of the square roots of non-perfect squares. Printable activities, solutions,...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Area and Perimeter
This multimedia Learn Alberta math resource looks at area and perimeter and how math is involved in the operations of a ranch. The accompanying interactive component lets students investigate a variety of rectangles to get a target...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring the Pythagorean Theorem
This multimedia Learn Alberta math resource looks at the structural design of buildings and how the Pythagorean Theorem is often involved in the design process. The accompanying interactive component asks students to build a variety of...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Martha's Stem Stories Activity Plan
Welcome to Martha's STEM Stories! STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You may already know that doing STEM means testing ideas, collecting data, making calculations, and drawing graphs and charts-but you...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Beat the Calculator: Adding Even Numbers
Can you beat the calculator? Your task is to find the sum of all even numbers between two and any selected two-digit even number. If you can find the number pattern, you are sure to beat the calculator every time. Links to other "Beat...
BBC
Bbc: Ks3 Maths: Percentages
KS3 Math provides interactive activities on percentages, using pence and pounds. Use the factsheet for percentage information. You may use the worksheet for percentage practice and take the test provided to check your percentage skills....
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Percent With a Calculator
This tutorial explains how to use a calculator to find a percent. There is also a practice section at the end of the lesson.
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Defining and Calculating Percents
Explore methods for calculating and comparing discounts in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students develop different strategies for calculating and comparing discounts, including percent off a price,...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions
Discover how percents and proportions help explain issues like climate change, composting, and zero waste in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students estimate the percentage of various types of trash that...
PBS
Pbs: Real Life Math: Physical Trainer
The general manager of a fitness center explains how numerical calculations, percentages, and ratios are critical to his job in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students explore percentages, fractions, and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Slippery Slope Activity: Math & Science in Motion
This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 6 in the Explorations book, Math and Science in Motion: Activities for Middle School by Chris Brueningsen, Elisa Brueningsen, and Bill Bower (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997). Students...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Breast Cancer Risks
Cross curricular lines while integrating technology into your classroom to study a real-world application of logistic regression. This activity shows students how to enter data into their graphing calculators and perform a regression in...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Warming Up to Sim Calc Math Worlds (For the Calculator)
Warming Up To SimCalc MathWorlds (for the Calculator)
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today: Humidity Makes Air Feel Hotter Iii
Investigate the relationship among humidity, air temperature, and the heat index while learning about modeling data, evaluating functions, and describing the end behavior of a function. Students will use graphing calculator technology to...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Alternative Record Books
Take a look at the amazing limits that athletes push themselves to in search of Olympic glory. Which events see the fastest speeds, furthest distances and highest forces? This activity challenges students to undertake some research,...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Lengthy Journeys: Olympic Torch Relay
Can you plan routes for the Olympic Torch to visit these cities? How far will it travel? How long will it take? This activity gives children the opportunity to calculate using distance and time and is aimed at Key Stage 2 primary school...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Activity: Garden Area
The learning activity explores area. Students determine the area of their garden by counting squares.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today the Next Frontier for Flight
This activity provides students the opportunity to gain experience in creating circle graphs on the calculator and provides an excellent real-world review of computation with percents.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Determining Elapsed Time With Speed
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students solve word problems where they must calculate elapsed time given he speed of an event or activity. Includes video demonstrating a...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: The Math of Credit Cards
Explore how credit cards work in this video from KQED. In particular, you'll discover the impact and high cost of outstanding balances when borrowing money using credit cards. In the accompanying classroom activity, students discuss the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math by Hand
Students use the calculator to improve number sense and place value skills. They use the Math by Hand application to go step-by-step through multiplication problems. They also insert numbers into the missing places to complete problems.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Humidity Makes Air Feel Even Hotter
Students note the range of heat indexes on the overall data as well as specific humidity levels and air temperatures. They find the mean and median of the ranges and calculate apparent temperatures for specific scenarios.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Floral Shop Math
Students will create quadratic functions that model revenue collected and profit earned from selling bouquets in a flower shop. The students can use graphing calculators to identify the maximum value for each function. Once they identify...