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The Amazing Mathematical Race: Boxing the Rare Element
Students enter a race against time to determine the maximum sized box that can be formed from a standard sheet of copy paper. The boxes are to be used to contain a valuable and rare element which is light as cotton and corrosive to all...
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Making Savvy Consumer Choices
It's never too early to learn about grocery budgeting. Middle schoolers delve into the world of consumer math with a lesson plan that focuses on both healthy choices and real-world math applications. Groups work together to form a...
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8th Grade Math "I Can" Statement Posters
Clarify the Common Core standards for your eighth grade mathematicians with this series of classroom displays. By rewriting each standard as an achievable "I can" statement, these posters give students clear goals to work toward...
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Why are Bubbles Spheres
Students calculate the surface area of different polygons. In this geometry lesson, students practice calculating the volume of spheres. They work with cones, cylinders and rectangular prisms.
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Play Dough Day
Twelfth graders build a model of the following figures with the base from column I and the cross-section from column II. Draw the base with labeled axes on the graph paper and construct the figure on top of the base with the play dough...
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Why Are Cells So Small?
Young scholars examine the relationship between cell surface area and the ability of materials to diffuse through a cell. They participate in an experiment in which they determine which materials diffuse easier than others. They...
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Perimeter
Students examine the concept of perimeter. Students calculate the perimeter of a random shape on a grid. Students develop a better understanding of the concept of perimeter. Students calculate the perimeter of shapes.
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Measuring the Earth
Students identify types of arcs and angles in a circle, find the measure of arcs and angles, and solve real world problems involving lengths of segments in circles, lengths, and areas.
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Creating a "Concrete" Spreadsheet
Students create a spreadsheet that calculate the amount of concrete needed to pour various concrete forms.
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Watershed Investigations
Students explore the components of a watershed and the factors that affect it. They read a topographical map and use geometry to determine the area of a watershed. Students estimate the volume of a body of water and perform runoff...
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Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things
Second graders publish a class cookbook of their own recipes. They explore the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class.
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Similar Triangles
Ninth graders find the height of every day objects using techniques learned through postulates that allow triangles in a problem to be similar. They calculate the length of a missing side and solve proportions.
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Twenty-Five Measures of the Angles of a Triangle Problems
In this triangle worksheet, young scholars calculate the measures of the angles or the sums of the measures of the angles in twenty-five triangle problems and hands-on activities. The solutions are provided.
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Pyramids- Slant Height and Altitude
Young scholars calculate the height and altitude of a pyramid. In this geometry lesson, students define the parts that make up a pyramid. They use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the missing parts of a pyramid.
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Reading distance on maps
Eighth graders complete worksheets on reading the distance on maps in miles or kilometers. In this maps lesson plan, 8th graders use a calculator and ruler.
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The Price is Right, So Let's Make Change
Students estimate, calculate, and count back the amount of change needed from purchases made during small group activities.
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The Box with the Greatest Volume
Students use measurement tools to measure the nearest 16th of an inch. They connect fractions and their decimal equivalents and compare this with other decimals. Finally, the class uses algebraic concepts and formulas to solve problems.
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Using Math to Build a Swimming Pool
In this calculating dimensions of a swimming pool worksheet, 6th graders solve the areas, the five depths, the volume, the square meters of tiles, the cost of the tiles, and convert the measurements from standard to metric. Students...
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Measuring Supporting Structures
Students calculate the volume of the Pantheon's columns and estimate changes in weight given different parameters.
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Measurements
Seventh graders solve word problems involving real world situation. In this geometry activity, 7th graders solve problems related to volume. They apply the formulas taught in geometry.
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Visualizing Solids of Revolution - Washers
Students solve the area of a cross section. In this calculus lesson, students solve areas rotated and bounded by two functions. They solve using the washer method.
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STRETCHING SPRING
Students calculate the length, width, height, perimeter, area, volume, surface area, angle measures or sums of angle measures of common geometric figures. They create an equation of a line of best fit from a set of ordered pairs or...
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Unit 7: Mensuration Mental Tests
In this mental math worksheet, middle schoolers calculate area, volume, perimeter, and convert units in two mental math tests of ten problems each.
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Risk Assessment and Geometry
Tenth graders study the concept of risk analysis as it relates to geometry. In this spatial relationship lesson, 10th graders are provided a set of coordinates to analyze a piece of land described. Students write a description that...