Determine the height of a bouncing ball by creating a quadratic function for each.

Students will construct a mathematical model of a gear to determine the number of revolutions.

This is the first of two algebra lesson plans from Annenberg Learning. Find plans to teach students how to factor trinomials. This lesson plan is part of a larger workshop for teachers that offer insights into teaching algebra.

This lesson offers a list of 17 downloadable tasks for high school algebra students to practice interpreting expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context. Interpret parts of an expression, such as terms, factors, and...

Large manipulatives and hands-on activities are used to teach patterns to Kindergarten and Grade One.

This task is the first in a series of three tasks that use inequalities in the same context at increasing complexity in 6th grade, 7th grade and in HS algebra. Students write and solve inequalities, and represent the solutions...

This problem asks the student to evaluate six numerical expressions that contain the same integers and operations yet have different results due to the placement of parentheses. It helps students see the purpose of using parentheses....

This instructional activity is on solving one and two-step equations. Students will watch interactive video clips that provide a step by step process to solving equations. Students will also visit interactive websites that provide games...

The lesson plan provided here gives a step-by-step set of instructions for balancing an equation in order to find the value of the unknown variable. After two examples are worked through, 10 practice problems are given, as well as their...

This problem allows students to see words that can describe the expression from part (c) of "5.OA Watch out for Parentheses." Additionally, the words (add, sum) and (product, multiply) are all strategically used so that the student can...

Students learn about four forms of equations: direct variation, slope-intercept form, standard form and point-slope form. They graph and complete problem sets for each, converting from one form of equation to another, and learning the...

Is it any wonder that young scholars are suspicious? We lead, sometimes drag, them through Algebra I insisting they must follow the order of operations. We make them learn the "hard way" of doing an assignment one day only to show them...

For the sake of this commentary, let R be the height of Rual's seedlings (of course students do not need to use a letter to represent any number in this task). Student must compare the size of each of two products (112xR, and 34xR) to...

In this lesson, students will work cooperatively to solve multi-step equations online. The program will allow them to solve the equations and then check their answers. Students lacking the needed skills to complete this assignment will...

The purpose of this task is to give young scholars a chance to work creatively with three of the four fundamental arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, and multiplication). It is well suited for helping students develop fluency...

The purpose of this game is to help students think flexibly about numbers and operations and to record multiple operations using proper notation. Aligns with 5.OA.A.1.

During this lesson, eighth grade middle schoolers will interpret the perimeter of a train of triangles, squares, trapezoids, or hexagons as a function (for each input, there will be exactly one output). Students will represent their data...

This lesson is designed to review and reinforce three methods (graphing, substitution and elimination) of solving systems of linear equations. The students will work together and independently to find the solutions to systems of...

Providing one lesson plan, one practice exercise, and two teacher resources, the information at this website is geared toward students who already understand rational and irrational numbers. The lesson plan has explanations of what...

Students are introduced to the physics concepts of air resistance and launch angle as they apply to catapults. This includes the basic concepts of position, velocity and acceleration and their relationships to one another. They use...

The activity teaches young scholars about an important characteristic of lines: their slopes. Slope can be determined either in graphical or algebraic form. Slope can also be described as positive, negative, zero or undefined. Students...

This lesson is designed to assist students not only in using the order of operations, but also experimenting with how grouping and ordering affects answers. In groups as teams, the students will compete while finding algebraic...