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Fruit Loops/Cheerios Activity: Measures of Central Tendency
In this measures of central tendency worksheet, students use Fruit Loops and Cheerios to gather statistical data. They find the mean, mode and median of the data. Students construct a box-and-whisker plot of the class data. This...
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Shaquille O'Neal: Foot and Hand Size
For this measurement worksheet, students will cut out and compare their own feet and hands to that of basketball star, Shaquille O'Neal.
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Shaquille O'Neal Hand & Foot Span
If Shaquille O'Neal wears a size-20 shoe, how big are his hands? Learners will use the average ratios of foot length to hand span to calculate the hand span of Shaq, but first, they have to collect the data! They will measure their peers...
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Dribbling Math Challenge
Students practice foot dribbling and hand dribbling with control. In addition it helps to reinforce math concepts.
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Max's Math Adventures
In these shape activity worksheets, students read the poem about shapes and then draw and write about one of the zoo animals from the zoo. Kids use the given shapes to put their animal together. Students add hair, eye color, and clothing...
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z-Scores
Just how far away from the mean is the data point? Pupils calculate the standard deviation for a set of data and find out how many standard deviations a point is away from the mean. The teacher leads a discussion on how to calculate...
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Making Games
Sixth graders participate in a variety of the following math games to practice problem solving: Factor Capture, Garbage Can Basketball, Equivalent Fraction Capture, and Equivalent Spoons. They practice problem solving involving multiple...
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Tarantula Shoes
Students read a book about Ryan O'Keefe, a young man who wants a pair of basketball shoes promoted by a basketball star. They explore about spending, saving, opportunity cost, and trade-offs as they study Ryan's decisions throughout the...
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Measuring Up on the Mayflower
Second graders use a meter tape to compare the length of the Mayflower to a basketball court and make homemade butter for crackers. Afterward, all students sit inside the makeshift Mayflower's dimensions and enjoy their Pilgrim butter.
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Science of Special Effects
This is a creative, multidisciplinary, well-designed lesson provided by Scientific American related to special effects. Students make their own animated short films and use math and computer skills.
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What's My Pattern?
Students recognize, describe and extend patterns in three activities. They organize data, find patterns and describe the rule for the pattern as well as use the graphing calculator to graph the data to make and test predictions. In the...
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Paper Toss Shootout
Young scholars explore the concept of percentages. In this math lesson, students throw paper at wastebaskets as if shooting a basketball in a hoop. Young scholars shoot the paper a given amount of times and then calculate their shooting...
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Let's Play Some Ball!
Pupils review horizontal and vertical shifts of a parabola and how they effect a specific quadratic formula. They play a basketball review game in which they try to find the right quadratic equation for a given problem in order to earn...
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Shaquille O'Neal Hand/Foot Span
Shaquille O'Neal has huge hands and feet, and learners will use those two measurements to practice collecting and extrapolating data using ratios. They record the measurement of foot and hand span of several of their classmates, then...
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Understanding Proportions and Scale Drawings
Proportions are ratios found using multiplication or division. Middle schoolers solve measurement problems, find a figure's missing dimension, and find the distance between two points. Resource features four lesson plans with detailed...
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Basketball Caps
Students work on a problem, individually or in pairs. They are asked questions that focus on average. They discus that the average number represents an equal redistribution , rather than just being able to state the rule. They write...
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The Fraction Race
The students participate in a game involving a hula hoop and basketballs. After each student participates in the activity, they write their game score in fraction form using the points they earned over the points possible.
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Mavericks and Measurement
Students study the measurement formulas for area and perimeter in real-life situations. In this area and perimeter instructional activity, students design a bed and arrange furniture in a hotel room using area and perimeter formulas for...
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Millions, Billions, Trillions
Students use real-world data to compare the relative sizes of millions and billions, and exponential growth. They use the salaries of famous people such as, Michael Jordan and Bill Gates to understand this math concept.
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The Distributive Property
Students use a visual to introduce the Distributive Property. The instructional activity is chronologically numbered and follows a distinct plan. The class works with the teacher to complete the instructional activity. The plan is not...
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Dribbling Math
Students practice adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers while working on dribbling skills. They play the role of munchers and dribblers while adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers from a deck of cards.
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Connect Walking with Mathematics
Examining walking strides, rates, and calories burned are just some of the ways to connect physical education with math.
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Integer Exponents, Scientific Notation and Volume
A one-stop resource for exponents, square and cube roots, scientific notation, and volume formulas guides learners through properties of exponents. As they learn to apply these properties to operations with scientific notation,...
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Exploring Scale And Ratio
Students measure the actual size and distance of the solar system using scale and ratio. They watch and discuss a video, create a distance-scale solar system model, and compare the scale sizes of planets to their actual sizes.