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Alex: Relationship Between Height and Length

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, eighth grade students will collect data. They will use this data to analyze the relationship between the height of an individual and the length of his/her foot. Students will use a line of fit to make predictions for...
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Alex: Geometric Man

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The students will explore angles, rays, line segments, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and two-dimensional figures through the use of the book Shape Up! Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons by David A. Adler. They will also...
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Alex: Float or Sink?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will define density and use the density formula to determine the density, volume, and mass of various items using the correct units for each measurement.
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Alex: Circling Around

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will calculate the diameter, circumference, and ratio of a real world object. Students will create an electronic slideshow to illustrate the process of determining the diameter, circumference, and ratio of these objects.
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Alex: Get on Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In collaborative/cooperative groups, students will review basic vocabulary and concepts for data and statistics. Students will create, collect, display, and interpret data in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs and circle graphs.
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Alex: Getting Froggy Wih It

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Students will solve problems using a number line. Students will work collaboratively to create a "Town" with the main street consisting of a number line diagram. They will practice counting forwards and backwards, measuring and...
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Alex: Focusing on Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will solve systems of linear equations by graphing. Systems of linear equations are two or more linear equations together.
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Alex: The Counting House

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, students will recognize numbers 0-20. Students will place objects with the correct corresponding number.
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Alex: Multiply What You Hear!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will record the sound that ten different objects make when they are dropped. The students will then use those sounds to create multiplication problems for other students to answer.
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Alex: Conic Sections: Discovering the Degenerates

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through a mixture of online exploration, and teacher instruction, students will discover how the degenerate forms of the conic sections are formed and will be able to identify the degenerate case of each conic section.
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Alex: A Triangle to Remember

For Teachers 4th Standards
This lesson will introduce students to different types of triangles by using a clip from the movie A Walk to Remember. They will take part in interactive tutorials to strengthen the concepts of classifying triangles. The students will...
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Alex: Students Only! No Teachers Aloud

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The students will be introduced to area and perimeter. The teacher will pose a real-life situation in which the students will have a chance to explore an actual section outside to determine the area and perimeter of a set location.
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Alex: Cows on the Clock

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students will calculate elapsed time using the storybook Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. Students will identify the time pasted between two given times in a.m. and p.m.
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Alex: Pythagorean Theorem: Prove It (Part 2)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, eighth grade students will use their new found knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem and relate it to the world around them. They will work in cooperative groups to solve problems using the Pythagorean Theorem. Adobe PDF...
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Alex: Genetics: Peas to Blood Types

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will complete an online tutorial about what makes up a person's blood type, how blood types are determined, and which blood types can transfuse safely.
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Alex: Vectors Drive the Boat

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using a combination of online exploration and teacher instruction students will discover that vectors have both magnitude and direction. They will be able to use vectors to represent problem situations. Students will also be will be able...
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Alex: Camp Add "Em Up Ii

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
At Camp Add 'Em Up it's time to or "2" find patterns in the environment. Students will work in pairs as they build understanding of how to count by 2's. Students will use digital cameras to capture "2's" in their classroom (2 shoes, 2...
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Alex: Conquering Polynomials

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will be introduced to polynomials. A polynomial is a made up of terms, which are algebraic expressions combined by addition or subtraction. In a polynomial, there is no expressions that involve dividing by the...
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Alex: Count Your Raisins

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan students will create a class line plot using data collected from boxes of raisins. This activity will be used to collect, organize, represent, and describe data using the line plot.
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Alex: Plane Ole Plottinghttp

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students will develop an understanding of the Cartesian plane through questioning and reasoning. Students will also gain a deeper understanding of the four quadrants within the coordinate system.
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Alex: Conic Sections: Playing With Hyperbolas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through a mixture of online exploration, and teacher instruction, students will discover how Hyberbolas are formed and will be able to use the key components (center, vertices and the asymptotes) to generate the equation of a graph.
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Alex: Growing in a Triangle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle school students explore the Pythagorean Theorem by measuring and calculating diagonal lengths using the Pythagorean Theorem. Students view an animated proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. They access an Internet site to view and...
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Alex: Polynomial Subtraction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will review the meaning of vocabulary relevant to subtracting polynomials such as opposites and the definition of subtract. They will be presented with examples of subtracting polynomials both vertically and horizontally. They...
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Alex: Have Your Math and Eat It, Too!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this two-day lesson, students will collaborate to create a healthy pizza using only geometric items that have been precisely measured. Students must identify the items as triangle, quadrilateral (parallelogram), or cube. Next,...