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Virginia Department of Education

Exponents

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Expand your knowledge of exponents with an activity that promotes critical thinking and comparison skills. Middle and high schoolers compare numbers written in expanded and exponential form and explain their strategies for solving...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Triangle Exterior Angles Theorem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify the measure of missing exterior angles. In this geometry instructional activity,students define and apply the exterior angle theorem to solve problems. They use Cabri software to create different angles and make...
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EngageNY

Real-World Area Problems

For Students 7th Standards
Not all structures take the shape of a polygon. The 21st lesson in a series of 29 shows young mathematicians they can create polygons out of composite shapes. Once they deconstruct the structures, they find the area of the composite figure.
Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Ducklings

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
The class gets their mean and median all in a row with an assessment task that uses a population of ducklings to work with data displays and measures of central tendency. Pupils create a frequency chart and calculate the mean and median....
Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Parallelogram

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Parallelograms are pairs of triangles all the way around. Pupils measure to determine the area and perimeter of a parallelogram. They then find the area of the tirangles formed by drawing a diagonal of the parallelogram and compare their...
Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Photographs

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Scaling needs to be picture perfect. Pupils use proportional reasoning to find the missing dimension of a photo. Class members determine the sizes of paper needed for two configurations of pictures in the short assessment task.
Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Toy Trains

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Scholars identify and continue the numerical pattern for the number of wheels on a train. Using the established pattern and its inverse, they determine whether a number of wheels is possible. Pupils finish...
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Curated OER

Candy Machine

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Using the concept of a candy vending machine, young mathematicians explore the sugar ratios found in different types of candy. Using the provided information, class members calculate and compare different ratios in...
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EngageNY

An Exercise in Creating a Scale Drawing

For Teachers 7th Standards
Design your dream classroom. The lesson plan contains an exercise to have teams create a scale drawing of their dream classroom. Pairs take the measurements of their classroom and furniture and create a scale factor for them. To finish...
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EngageNY

Calculating Probabilities of Compound Events

For Teachers 7th Standards
Use tree diagrams with multiple branches to calculate the probabilities of compound events. Pupils use tree diagrams to find the sample space for probability problems and use them to determine the probability of compound events in the...
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EngageNY

Counting Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
Solving these percent problems is a matter of counting. Pupils find percents by counting the number of events that meet the criteria and the total number of possibilities. Participants create the ratio and convert it to a percent to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Space and Shape in Geometry:

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students are asked to visualize three-dimensional figures and apply this visualization to problem solving.
Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Which is Bigger?

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
To take the longest path, go around—or was that go over? Class members measure scale drawings of a cylindrical vase to find the height and diameter. They calculate the actual height and circumference and determine which is larger.  
Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Cereal

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Find the best protein-packed cereal. The short assessment task covers equivalent and comparing ratios within a context. Pupils determine the cereal with the highest ratio of protein. A rubric helps teachers with point allotments for...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Applying Geometry

For Students 6th - 12th
In this angles, area, and perimeter activity, students find different angles, area, and perimeter of different shapes. Students complete 8 problems total.
Handout
McGraw Hill

Triangles

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
After reviewing characteristics of seven types of triangles, young geometers discover how to find the missing angle of a triangle. Then, they practice identifying triangles, find missing angles, and find missing side lengths of...
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Curated OER

Percents: What's the Use?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore percentages in real world situations. In this percents instructional activity, students determine the final sales price after discounts. Learners interview community members and determine how percentages are used in the...
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Curated OER

A Trip to Colonial Virginia

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider prices while planning a trip to Colonial Virginia. In this budgeting lesson plan, students construct an itinerary of events for a vacation. Students are responsible for working within the approved budget.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Riding by the Library

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Draw a graph that shows the qualitative features of a function that has been described verbally. Make sure learners understand where time is zero and the distance is zero. It may take them some time to understand this concept, so working...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Making Cookies

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Hooray for chocolate chip cookies! Ask your mathematicians to triple a chocolate chip cookie recipe and then reduce the recipe by one-fourth. Your class may need two days to complete, tripling the recipe the first day and reducing the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Running at a Constant Speed

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
The learner must use the given constant speed to find the unit rate. A table is made in order to relate the speed to the time and the distance. From the table, learners are able to see the unit rate in miles per minute and miles per...
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Math Worksheets Land

Find Percentages of Numbers - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Finding a percentage of a number is a skill learners must know in order to be successful thinkers. The resource introduces this concept with a guided explanation and can be used with the additional materials as a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Candy Colors: Figuring the Mean, Median, and Mode

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students count candy by color and then calculate mean, median, and mode. They count candy and use the data to calculate mean, median, and mode (by color) and apply their learning to another collection of data.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Probability and the Law of Large Numbers

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners explore the law of large numbers. In this problem solving instructional activity, students view an episode of "Cyberchase" and apply the law to determine probability in 2 different scenarios.

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