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Guess the Age
Students explore functions using real world application. In this algebra activity, students play a game as they apply concepts of function. They graph their findings and discuss it with the class.
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Solving One Step Equations Using Algebra Tiles
Learners solve linear equations. In this algebra lesson, students solve equations using addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. They evaluate and simplify functions.
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The football and Braking Distance; Model Data with Quadratic Functions
Students use the quadratic formula to solve application problems. The first problem relates to the path of a football thrown from the top of the bleachers. Students compute the time it will take the football to reach certain heights. In...
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Which Bag is Which?
Students explore number sense by completing a statistical analysis game in class. In this data graphing lesson, students utilize visual references such as colored cubes and tiles to map out the results of an experiment outcome such as a...
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Introduction to Graphical Representation of Data Sets in Connection with Nuclear Decay
Young scholars record data, make observations, and share in experimentation and discussion of numerical experiments.
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Downhill Discoveries
Students are involved in hands-on activities to determine how course conditions affect bobsled, luge, and downhill ski races.
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Checking County Numbers
Students use their county's information page to gather information about their community. Using the information, they create graphs from the tables provided and interpret the data. They write a paragraph showing their interpretation of...
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Graphing Inertia: An Oxymoron?
Eighth graders investigate Newton's Law of Inertia in order to create a context for the review of the use of different types of graphs. They practice gathering the data from an experiment and put it into the correct corresponding graph.
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Review for the Algebra One SOLs
Pupils review the standards for Algebra I. Using the text, they discover two problems that match each standard and solve them showing all steps on paper. They create a PowerPoint slide for each problem and go through the correct steps...
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Toothpick squares
Learners state the general rule for a practical situation. They describe a continuing pattern. They use toothpicks to help visualize the problem and answer it correctly.
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Lesson Plan for Fontana Mines
Students estimate and compute with rational numbers. They compare, order and convert among fractions, decimals and percents. Students analyze problems to determine if there is sufficient or extraneous data to solve.
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Mine Lesson #1: Slope slider
Eighth graders investigate linear equations. In this Algebra I lesson, 8th graders explore the effects that manipulating a linear equation has on the graph of the function through the use of a java applet.
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Nested Requests
Students apply the problem solving skill of Request-Response-Result in word problems where the requests are nested. They practice using the technique and determining when it is appropriate to be used.
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The Mandelbrot Set
Students explore the Mandelbrot Set. They are introduced to the concept of a complex number and function in order to motivate the discussion of Julia and Mandelbrot sets. Students investigate fractals and how they are built.
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Square Milk Bottle Crates
Students attempt a problem that Students has the potential to have more than one solution. Hence the problem is accessible to a wide range of students. The problem is essentially about finding patterns and this is typical of a number of...
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Pizza Toppings 2
Students explore possible combinations of items. They devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically. They examine using linear and quadratic patterns to solve combination problems. From a given...
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II Similar
Pupils, through lecture and guided practice, discover the properties of similar triangles. They use given measurements of one triangle to find a missing measurement of a similar triangle. They apply this knowledge in real-life...
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Additive Inverses
Students investigate properties of additive inverses. For this properties of additive inverses lesson, students discuss the what it means for two numbers to be opposites. Students discuss representing opposite numbers using a negative...