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A River Runs Through It Learning Project
In this year long learning project integrating mathematics and science, students solve environmental problems using data collection and problem solving concepts. Designed for upper elementary gifted students. Interactive components and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Statics and Torque: Problems and Exercises
This is a list of 40 problems/exercises to solve covering the content of Chapter 9: Statics and Torque from the AP Physics online text.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Launchpad Online: Launchball
Use your knowledge of physics concepts like electricity, reflection, magnetism, etc. to complete interactive online puzzles.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Conservation of Energy
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the law of the conservation of energy; describe some of the many forms of energy; and define efficiency of an energy conversion process as the fraction left as useful energy or...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rotational Kinetic Energy: Work and Energy Revisited
By the end of this section, you will be able to derive the equation for rotational work, calculate rotational kinetic energy, and demonstrate the law of conservation of energy.
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Math Stories: Write a Number Sentence
At this one page site you can work through step by step a sample problem that illustrates the problem solving strategy for "Write a number sentence." The answer is right there to help you check your thinking.
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Math Stories: Working Backwards
At this one page site you can work through step by step a sample problem that illustrates the problem solving strategy for "Working backwards." The answer is right there to help you check your thinking.
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Tinkergarten: Books That Help Us Teach Problem Solving
One of the most helpful, and easy, ways to teach problem-solving is to read, fall in love with and make sense of books that help teach problem-solving strategies. This article lists a few examples of books to use in your classroom.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Problem Solving With Linear Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Devise a problem-solving strategy that uses a graph to solve real-world problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Applications Using Linear Models
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students use problem-solving strategies and a plan to solve real-world dilemmas. Students watch a video tutorial, explore guided notes and attempt...
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Pocket of Preschool: Problem Solving With Little Learners
Problem-solving is hard for preschool students! This article shows how to teach them problem-solving strategies they can use when they encounter problems. Included are techniques, visuals, and books that lead to discussions on...
Read Works
Read Works: Fixing My Sister's Bike
[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic passage is about a girl who uses problem solving strategies to fix her sister's bike. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
Yale University
Detective Fiction: Focus on Critical Thinking
Through the use of reading crime fiction, this lesson plan helps to refine critical thinking skills and problem solving strategies which are important for the development of 21st century skills.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Simple Interest
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students solve real-world problems involving simple interest by using problem-solving strategies. Students examine guided notes, review guided...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Applications of Exponential Functions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students devise a problem-solving strategy to solve real-world problems involving exponential functions. Students watch a video tutorial, explore...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Symbolic Math Guide App
This App helps students learn and practice problem-solving strategies by providing transformations for various types of computational problems. Simplify expressions solving equations, compute derivatives, and more.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Draw a Picture 1
Use the problem solving strategy, draw a picture, to identify the characteristics described in the correct picture. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Area of Polygons and Circles
How would you find the area of a polygon or circle? Explore this concept with engaging activities at this test prep site. Here you will find detailed problem solving strategies with accompanying visuals, a reference table with formulas,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Find a Pattern Using Children's Literature
Students use the problem-solving strategy of "find a pattern" to predict the number of grains of rice Rani (from the book, One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi) will receive after 30 days. Students use a spreadsheet to...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Cyberchase: Railway Hero
Players are on a mission to repair cyberspace's Information SuperRailway, after pieces of its track were stolen by the villain Hacker. Using math problem-solving strategies including counting, addition, and spatial reasoning, players...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Got It
Sharpen your logical thinking and see if you can figure out the strategy to get to the target number before the computer.
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Nz Maths Problem Solving Lesson Plans: Level 4
This New Zealand Problem Solving website is an outstanding resource for lesson plans. They are organized into the following categories: algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and logic and reasoning.
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Nz Maths Problem Solving Lesson Plans: Level 5
Teachers, this New Zealand Problem Solving website is an outstanding resource for lesson plans. They are organized into the following categories: algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and logic and reasoning.
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Nz Maths Problem Solving Lesson Plans: Level 6
Teachers, this New Zealand Problem Solving website is an outstanding resource for lesson plans. They are organized into the following categories: Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Numbers, Statistics, and Logic and Reasoning.