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Comparing Data

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a survey, gather data and describe the data using measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) and spread (range, quartiles, and interquartile range). Students use these measures to interpret, compare and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Watch That Plant Grow

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the growth of marigolds in a greenhouse environment. They chart data in spreadsheets showing plant growth over time and under a number of conditions. They record measures of plant height and greenhouse temperature.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Pattern and Practice

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Young scholars learn how to make patterns. Students first display their prior knowledge of patterns before delving into the lesson. They complete a worksheet and participate in a web-based class activity. They work in cooperative groups...
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Sizing Up the Supersize Croc

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine and compare traits of humans and crocodiles.  In this crocodile lesson plan students use a ratio to estimate the height of a person and compare that to a crocodile. 
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Curated OER

Anything I Can Do You Can Do Better

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a two-week unit involving design and construction concepts. They watch a PowerPoint presentation about geometric shapes, draw the fourteen shapes incorporated in bridge construction, and in small groups design, build,...
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Curated OER

Engineer Webelos Activity Workbook

For Students 4th - 8th
For this engineering worksheet, students speak with an engineer, surveyor, or architect in their area about the various occupations in engineering and create a list that explains each. They also draw a floor plan of their home and three...
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Spherical Geometry: A Global Perspective

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students investigate spherical geometry using a globe and an apple. In this spherical geometry lesson plan, students translate Euclidean geometry terms to spherical geometry terms using a globe. They answer 3 questions about spherical...
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Curated OER

Archeologist Frieze Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Learners construct frieze patterns using translations and rotations. They will discuss how frieze patterns are similar to jigsaw puzzles and use Cabri Jr. to build a triangle frieze pattern using rotations, translations, and reflections.
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Sight

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars discover how the sense of sight helps us recognize each other and explore color, motion and distance.
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Ohio Department of Education

I Can Name that Angle in One Measure! - Grade Eight

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Collaborative groups work with geometry manipulatives to investigate conjectures about angles. They create a graphic organizer to use in summarizing relationships among angles in intersecting, perpendicular and parallel lines cut by a...
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Curated OER

Functions and the Vertical Line Test

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine functions and function notation. They use computer activities to discover how to graph functions, and conduct a vertical line test. Students describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry.
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Curated OER

The Periodic Table

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read and interpret the Periodic Table. They also make decisions on how to group and arrange different kinds of matter and draw the structure of atoms of pure elements. Finally, 8th graders contrast and compare basic...
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Curated OER

Add With No Regrouping

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
For this finding the sums worksheet, students add one digit-numbers plus two-digit numbers with no regrouping. Students solve 30 problems.
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Curated OER

Addition: Number Bonds to 30

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
In this addition worksheet, students fill in the missing addend to an addition problem that adds up to 30. This number could be a one or two digit number. Students complete 41 missing addend problems.
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Curated OER

Addition: Number Bonds to Fifty

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
In this identifying numbers that total fifty worksheet, students use an addend and the sum fifty to write the missing number. Students solve 41 problems.
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Curated OER

There's Gold in Them Thar Ratios

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students draw a model of the bunny problem which generates the Fibonacci Sequence, spirals generated from golden rectangles and golden triangles; identify the golden ratio in the human body, and find the Fibonacci numbers in nature.
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Building Shapes From Numbers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners experience how to illustrate some of the many connections between number and geometry. Through this 2-3 day focus on square numbers and triangular numbers, students make connections among mathematical topics.
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Tangram Geometry

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students listen to a story involving Tangram pieces. Students use Tangram pieces to complete shapes using an outline of a design.
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Rounding to the Nearest Ten

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this rounding worksheet, students complete the thought process sentences and round numbers to the nearest ten. Students round twenty-four problems.
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T. Smith Publishing

Beginning Fractions Equal Parts

For Students K - 2nd Standards
After looking at four examples of shapes divided into two exactly equal parts, junior geometers try their hand. One valuable thing about this worksheet is that the shapes are not only the standard circle, square, and triangle, but also...
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They're Everywhere! They're Everywhere!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students gain an appreciation of the polygons and polyhedrons around them that make their world one of order and strength. They build polygons and polyhedrons, and then construct airplanes out of polygons.
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One Good Turn Deserves Another

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students make observations about shapes and 1-, 2-, and 3-dimensional objects. They conduct observations and make predictions regarding transformations of simple geometric shapes. They identify shapes that occur in household items.
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Curated OER

How Machines Help Us Stay Healthy

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students visit different departments at a local hospital to see how machines help peoples such as the CAT scan machine. They build a model of such a machine that shows how patients are moved in and out of the machine.
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Curated OER

Angles: Angles, Angles, Everywhere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice estiminating and measuring angles. After watching a short video, they identify angles in objects in the classroom and their homes. In groups, they participate in activities in which they are given a scenerio and are...

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