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Plants and Animals, Partners in Pollination
Students participate in multiple hands-on activities to explore reproduction and pollination. In groups, using a cotton swab and powder, students simulate being pollinators and plants. They name the parts of the flowers and the function...
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Track Traces
Students explore animal characteristics by participating in an animal anatomy activity. In this animal tracks instructional activity, students identify the differences between specific animals and the shape of their footprints. Students...
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Measuring Activities
Students measure using both metric and standard measures. They convert from one standard to the next while measuring distances in their home or classroom.
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Class of Gold
How can you see a number in nature? Here, learners discover both Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio by exploring a number of different resources. Note: Some of the resources are older and may be missing some of the links, but...
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Data Analysis of Ground Level Ozone
Sixth graders construct and interpret graphs from ozone data collected in Phoenix area. Can be adapted to other areas.
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Jambalaya's Restaurant
Middle schoolers use a menu and recipes to work on adding, subtracting, and percentages. They are given they weekly circulators, advertisements, or actual products and students practice figuring out sales tax. Middle schoolers figure...
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Away we Go
Young scholars work in groups to calculate the costs of a trip to Six Flags amusement park. In this domain and range instructional activity, students calculate the least and greatest amounts of money needed for tickets, food, souvenirs,...
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NUMB3RS Activity: Chains and Pyramids
Watch an episode of the TV show, NUMB3RS and then explore the mathematics of chain letters and pyramid schemes, both of which involve geometric progressions and exponential growth. They discuss why both are dangerous and illegal.
Albert Shanker Institute
Economic Causes of the March on Washington
Money can't buy happiness, but it can put food on the table and pay the bills. The first of a five-lesson unit teaches pupils about the unemployment rate in 1963 and its relationship with the March on Washington. They learn how to create...
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Perfect Squares
In this math worksheet, learners solve the problems that have the form of perfect squares. These are essential to finding the roots.
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Curve Ball
Learners explore the concept of parabolas by collecting quadratic data on a bouncing ball as it is falling using a motion detector. They plot the data and determine the equation of the quadratic in vertex form, then determine the values...
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Show Me the Money
Pupils investigate financial applications of mathematics in this mathematics lesson plan. They will investigate equations that represent a company’s income, expense, and profit functions and use those equations to identify break even...
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Pythagorean Theorem Spreadsheet
Studetns use a spreadsheet to organize data on the sides of a triangle. They use the Pythagorean Theorem and the If then spreadsheet function to decide whether the three sides determine a right triangle. Learners work individual...
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Rational Numbers
Young scholars investigate rational numbers in this algebra lesson. They graph systems of equations and use technology to find the point of intersection. They need a TI for this assignment.
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Exploration of Trigonometry
Learners explore how changing an angle in a triangle changes the ratio of the sides. They also explore how changing the sides can make changes to an angle in a triangle. Finally, they determine how two different pairs of sides, in the...
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Estimating with Rational Numbers
Students explore the concept of rounding. In this rounding lesson, students round fractions and mixed numbers. Students estimate the sums, differences, products, and quotients of rounded fractions and mixed numbers.
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Visual Fractions
Leanrers observe models of fractions and use a calculator to represent numbers as decimals, fractions, and percents. They participate in calculator activities to view different representations of the same number.
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Circles all Around
Students investigate circles. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students explore the relationship between the diameter of a circle and its circumference.
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Dimensions and Area
Learners explore the area of rectangles in this middle school geometry lesson. They will investigate the relationship between a change in the dimensions of a rectangle and the change in the corresponding area. Learners also investigate...
Texas Instruments
Traditional Copy an Angle - Compass Construction Using Cabri Jr.
Learnerss explore geometric construction in this geometry lesson. They will investigate the traditional construction for copying an angle using Cabri Jr. in lieu of paper and pencil construction. The lesson encourages learners to explore...
Texas Instruments
What's the Scale?
Pupils will analyze scales as related to models and real life in this geometry lesson. They work together to compare the dimensions on a model as compared to the real building.
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Count Them Up
Pupils calculate area using the geoboard application on their calculators. They use a TI-73 calculator to find the areas of the shapes provided in the accompanying worksheet. Screen shots and instructions for creating shapes in the...
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Teaching and Learning Through Objects
Students identify and interpret the function, usefulness or utitlity, form, beauty or aesthetics, and meaning, context or story, of objects and how they learn new skills and make things that they learn traditionally, by observation and...
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Prism Investigation (3)
In this prism investigation worksheet, students complete a table telling the shapes at the end of prisms, the number of sides at each end, and the number of edges and complete the pattern of a function machine. Students write eight answers.