Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Using a Calculator
Use this site to learn how to use a calculator and apply math to real life situations with this interactive lesson! You will receive immediate feedback for your answers to all the questions.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Average [Pdf]
A concise graphing calculator lesson on calculating average. Detailed examples, demonstrations of calculator functions, and practice problems included. Acrobat Reader required.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Common Denominators [Pdf]
A graphing calculator lesson focusing on common denominator. Lesson contains detailed examples, visual demonstrations with key functions, and practice problems. Acrobat Reader required.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Positive and Negative [Pdf]
Order of operations with positive and negative numbers is the focus of this graphing calculator lesson. Included are detailed examples, demonstrations of key functions, and practice problems. Acrobat Reader required.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Proportions [Pdf]
A concise graphing calculator lesson on proportions. Detailed examples, demonstrations of functions, and practice problems included. Acrobat Reader required.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Calculating Exponential Growth
Disease is a breakdown in structures or functions of an organism. Some diseases are the result of damage by infection by other organisms. In this activity learners read an essay, "It's All in the Numbers," about the rapid spread of HIV...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Calculating Coronary Artery Disease Risk
This activity focuses on coronary heart disease and heart attacks. Students will learn about risk factors, how to decrease one's risk, and why it is important. They look at three fictitious patients and assess their risk levels. Lesson...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Calculating the Odds of Intelligent Alien Life
This video uses the Drake Equation to calculate the odds of intelligent alien life in the universe. [7:28] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Calculations: P H, P Oh, [H+], [Oh ]
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing chemistry calculations straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive lesson.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Area and Perimeter Review Using Legos
Lesson plan in which students calculate area, build areas to a given amount, and calculate the perimeter with the use of Legos. Step by step instructions and videos are provided. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.c Use area models to represent...
Music Theory
Music theory.net: Key Signature Calculation
An explanation of key signature calculation for advanced music students. Discusses the use of sharps and flats in music composition, with illustrated examples. (You may need to download Flash player to view this site.)
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Elapsed Time
In this lesson learners will understand the concept of elapsed time and be able to calculate elapsed time given the starting and ending time.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rewriting Formulas
For this lesson, young scholars explore "real-life" resources that make use of literal equations (rewriting known formulas) to help make people's lives easier. Students will use Excel to design formulas that find a specific value like...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: The Coordinate Plane [Pdf]
A graphing calculator lesson on coordinate planes. Detailed examples, demonstrations with key functions, and practice problems included. Acrobat Reader required.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M2: L2: Shortcuts Anyone? Calculate With Functions
In Module 2 Lesson 2 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to use the built-in functions in Excel so that they don't have to retype a formula each time they use it. Includes slideshow tutorials.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M3: L2: In the Library: Calculate With Functions
In Module 3 Lesson 2 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn about naming cells and cell ranges and how a name moves with the range it is attached to. Names can also be used in constructing absolute cell reference formulas....
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheets: M4: L2: What Are the Conditions? Calculate With Functions
In Module 4 Lesson 2 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to use conditional formatting to more easily analyze data. Includes slideshow tutorials.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheets: M5: L2:loans and Investments: Calculate With Functions
In Module 5 Lesson 2 of this course on spreadsheets, students will learn how to use the advanced Financial, Logical and Date & Time functions to analyze spreadsheet data. Includes slideshow tutorials.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Math Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of math-related subjects.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Scatter Plots on the Graphing Calculator
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers finding the equation of best fit using a graphing calculator.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Mass Ratio Calculation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains mass ratio definition and mass ratio calculations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Calculator Use With Algebra Expressions
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students learn how to evaluate expressions using a calculator. Students watch a video tutorial, explore guided notes and attempt practice problems.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Calculating Simple Interest
How do banks calculate the amount of interest paid on a loan? In this lesson, learners will view a Livescribe Pencast to learn how to find the dollar amount in interest that is due at maturity. This lesson uses different time periods...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Calculating Acceleration From Force and Mass
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to calculate acceleration from force and mass, and force from mass and acceleration.