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Mathematics Assessment Project

Increasing and Decreasing Quantities by a Percent

For Teachers 7th Standards
As part of a study of percent and percent change, learners first complete an assessment task with several percent change problems. They then complete an activity using cards to create a diagram expressing percent increases and...
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Bowland

How Risky is Life?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
"Life is more risk management, rather than exclusion of risks." -Walter Wriston. Scholars use provided mortality data to determine how likely it is a person will die from a particular cause. They compare the data to the perception of the...
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Rocketry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers design and construct a paper rocket that can be launched with a drinking straw. They participate in a lecture and read an article about rocketry and how Newton's Third Law applies to rocket launches. Each student...
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Telling Time Bingo

For Teachers K - 8th
Have your youngsters examine the difference between digital and analog clocks. Using They participate in a "Telling Time BINGO" game. Not only is this activity fun, but it provides the teacher with an opportunity to informally assess his...
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Biological Processes: Putting Microbes to Work

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Is there such a thing as useful microbes? Get ready to perform experiments on applying microbes for wastewater treatment. The first installment of the three-part unit provides background information to prepare young engineers for two...
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Problem Solving: Steps and Strategies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of problem solving strategies. In this problem solving strategies lesson, students discuss methods for solving problems such as re-reading a problem, stating the facts, drawing a picture and so on. Students...
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Tangram Perimeters

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together to make figures out of tangram squares. In groups, they calculate the measurements they need and apply the Pythagorean Theorem. They complete a worksheet solving equations using the theorem and review their answers.
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Probability: the Study of Chance

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars experiment to determine if a game is fair, collect data, interpret data, display data, and state and apply the rule for probability. Students use a simple game for this experiment.
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Factoring Large Numbers

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice applying the rules of divisibility.
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Jambalaya's Restaurant

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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As Good As Gold

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students find examples of the Golden Ratio on the human body through measurement. Additionally, students learn about the use of the Golden Ratio and the Golden Rectangle in art and architecture. A very interesting lesson for the students!
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What Do We Do With A Dirty Bomb?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars examine composition of dirty bomb and its possible effects on a city, and investigate simulations of such an event; students use computational and problem solving skills to assess damage and prepare report proposing...
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Cold Hard Facts...What Inquiring Minds Will Know

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars work with "ice" in order to gain a practical application of math concepts that evolve into an inquiry-based study. They determine if the dimensions of the ice make a difference in the way the ice floats in the water.
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Exponents Worksheet

For Students 7th - 9th
Learners answers to 10 multiplication problems with same base and an exponent. They solve 10 exponent raised to an exponent problems. Students simplify six problems with a combination of the prior two types. Learners determine the...
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Measuring a Mummy Case

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students calculate the size of a mummy case and its contents using ancient Egyptian measurements.
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Why Isn't It 50-50

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students comprehend the difference between the outcome of the experiment and the outcome that they expected. They analyze outcome of probability experiment and compare theoretic and empirical results. Pupils discuss the difference in...
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Count The Letters

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students perform activities involving ratios, proportions and percents. Given a newspaper article, groups of students count the number of letters in a given area. They use calculators and data collected to construct a pie chart and bar...
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Equations in Motion: Design and construct a mobile

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students participate in a lesson plan that covers the concepts of solving equations and inequalities. To master the concept they must demonstrate visually and verbally how both sides of an equation must be balanced. They construct a...
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Lesson Plan: Using Maps and Scales to Get to the Basketball Hall of Fame

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students view a quicktime video of basketball players going from Atlanta to Springfield, Mass. In this scaling lesson, students use a map to calculate the distance of the trip and the length of travel time. Students apply ratio and...
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Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover the Pythagorean Theorem.  In this discovering the Pythagorean Theorem lesson, students measure the lengths of various triangles to the nearest centimeter. Students record their measurements in a table. ...
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Classifying Polygons

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in a polygon hunt.  In this polygon lesson, 7th graders examine how polygons are alike and different.  Students create a Venn diagram and label the sorting circles.  Students work in cooperative...
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Mini-Metric Olympics

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in a Mini-Olympics with measurements. For this measurement lesson, students throw items and predict how far they will go. They measure the actual distance and find the difference between that and their estimate. 
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Tessellations: Use Angles To Show That Shapes Will or WIll Not Tessellate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe a selection of shapes. They identify which shapes will tessellate and justify their answer. Students apply the symmetry and angle properties of polygons to create tessellations.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre - Lab (Scientific Method)

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine science. In this scientific method lesson, students are introduced to what every experiment contains (hypothesis, critical thinking) and how an experiment is conducted. They watch a demonstration and then work...

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