Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing: Levers
A quite lengthy chapter on the simple machine the lever. Includes uses, classes, mechanical advantage, formulae, etc. A full discussion, with good illustrations.
City University of New York
Earth and Environmental Sciences: Treasure Hunt
Looking for enrichment? Here's an online treasure hunt requiring skill with directions, distance, contour maps, latitude, and longitude. Also supplementing the activity are interactive quizzes on latitude, longitude, and other related...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting Froggy Wih It
Young scholars will solve problems using a number line. Students will work collaboratively to create a "Town" with the main street consisting of a number line diagram. They will practice counting forwards and backwards, measuring and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Bloodstain Pattern Doesn't Lie
Students will formulate a hypothesis about the relationship (linear, direct, indirect, etc.) between the distance a drop of blood falls and the diameter of the splatter it makes. To test their hypothesis, the students will work...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fresh Pick Challenge: Lunch Counter
Help children create a simple lunch counter where they can learn about dollars and cents and sharpen their business skills at the same time. This activity will help them learn coin values, count by fives and tens, and practice simple...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Angular Measure 2
Looking for an easier way to do angular measurements? This page introduces you to a trick by using skinny triangles with small angles. The skinny triangles lets the astronomer assume right triangles and then they can use trigonometry to...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Investigating Functions With a Ferris Wheel: D vs. W
A web sketchpad activity helps students make sense of relationships between quantities, in this case the way that the distance a car travels around a Ferris wheel covaries with its "width" or horizontal distance from the center of the...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Tern Turn
Math activity challenges you to figure out how fast an Arctic tern can fly around the world. How long would it take to fly from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back?
Cuemath
Cuemath: Midpoint Theorem
A comprehensive guide for learning all about plane shapes with definitions and solved examples.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Perimeter of a Parallelogram
Learn about the perimeter of a parallelogram with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Taco Cart: A Pythagorean Journey
This interactive exercise uses distance and speed of travel to solve a real-life problem focusing on the Pythagorean theorem and rate of change.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Quadrants and Angles
Explains how to model angles in the x,y-plane, and demonstrates how to extend the concept of trig ratios to angles larger than 90 degrees.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Amazon River Boat Trip: Mixed Operations
Students will complete several exercises to calculate distances and complete problems using the order of operations.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Position on a Map
Help Gina locate items in the tea store using coordinates, a compass, and a ruler in this series of leveled exercises.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Rice Field: Area and Perimeter
Tu's rice field needs its perimeter measured. Can you help?
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Soccer Stadium: Shape & Length: 3 D Shapes and Distance
Explore distance and geometric shapes while joining Ivan in his soccer practice!
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: The Race [Pdf]
A challenge that combines skills in problem solving and logical reasoning. See if you can figure out who will win the race by determining the rate of speed of each runner. A one page activity from NCTM Math Challenges for Families...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Middle Years Word Problems: 1999
An archived collection of real-life word problems for middle school students, several of which involve money. Other problems focus on distance or time.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Reporters: Simple Machines: The Screw
Scholastic provides an in-depth description here of a simple machine called The Screw. Also provides a picture and several examples for understanding.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Why the Midpoint Formula Works
A written proof that shows how the midpoint formula works.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: Scale
Definition of map scale with related cartography links and activity at Mapblast in which students create maps of their own and determine distance and scale.
Rice University
Rice Univ.: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: Mathematics Problems
Web-based cartography exercises based on the online "How far is it" distance caclulator.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth Univ.: Work Definitions
This site from the Virginia Commonwealth University gives good information on the definition of work using nice graphics and interactive questions. Immediate feedback on student answers is provided.
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments:how to Measure the Height of a Tree
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This part...