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Adding Mixed Numbers - Unequal Denominators

For Teachers 5th Standards
Working with fractions that have unequal denominators is one of the most difficult concepts for young mathematicians to master. Here you will find a fine lesson that should help youngsters begin to get a grasp on this important...
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Modeling Conditional Probabilities 1: Lucky Dip

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Check out this detailed lesson plan on conditional probability!  Learners work individually and also collaboratively to analyze the fairness of a game and justify their reasoning. it includes detailed notes and many helpful...
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The Square Counting Shortcut

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
An excellent lesson that encourages students to discover how complex figures can be broken into simpler shapes when measuring area. Working with block letters, learners are given the freedom to develop their own strategies for...
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Task: Miniature Golf

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
"Fore!" All right, no one really yells this out in miniature golf, but this well-defined activity will have your charges using lots of numbers in their unique design of a miniature golf hole. Included in the activity criteria is the...
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Access Ramp

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Just about every public building that your students are familiar with has an access ramp which complies with ADA requirements. As it turns out, designing such a ramp is an excellent activity to incorporate slope, the Pythagorean Theorem,...
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2009 AP® Calculus BC Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th
Dive into the exam review. Pupils use questions, including one about diving into a pool, to prepare for the AP® Calculus BC exam. Items include contextual and non-contextual questions with contextual examples requiring a calculator....
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Rocket Quads

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How high will it fly? Pairs build straw rockets and launch them at different angles and determine the height and horizontal distance of the flight path. Teams make conjectures about how the angle affects the measured distances and use...
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Using the Calculator (Part II)

For Teachers 1st
First graders watch a demonstration by their teacher to see how to use a calculator. They identify the numbers being used and input them into the calculator. On a worksheet, they record the answer and use coins to show the total.
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Calculating Cats

For Teachers 1st
First graders are introduced to calculators. They complete a variety of math problems using calculators and identify basic parts on a calculator.
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Subtraction with Calculators

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate an understanding of subtracting one from a number of ten or less using manipulatives, work with calculators to solve subtraction problems, and create subtraction number sentences to solve on the calculator.
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Interest Calculation and Spreadsheets

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students, while in the computer lab working on a spreadsheet program, calculate interest and accumulated value of a savings plan. They follow specific directives on how to create their spreadsheets. At the end of the instructional...
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Trigonometry Math - Using a Calculator

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online math activity, high schoolers practice using their calculator to perform trigonomic functions. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A...
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Calculator Curiosities: Order of Operations, Domain, And Inverse Functions

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
For this math worksheet, young scholars investigate the concepts of order of operations, domains, and inverse functions while using a calculator.
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Recursion on a Calculator

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students investigate repeated values on the calculator. They also read the explanation of the golden triangle and its proof.
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Calculating Elapsed Time

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students calculate elapsed time in a series of activities. In this calculating time lesson plan, students view a Cyberchase video that demonstrates how to calculate elapsed time. Activities include counting, subtracting and regrouping in...
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Math on a Roll

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students practice various math skills using a polyhedral die. In this dice game lesson plan, students practice multiplication, addition, place value, and money using games. Standard dice may be used instead of a polyhedral die with...
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Using a Calculator: Take 10

For Students 4th - 6th
For this finding differences with a calculator worksheet, students read the numbers, subtract ten, record the answers, and check their answers on the calculator. Students solve 20 problems.
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Mystery Operations: Math, Patterns, Logic

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity the computer/teacher makes up a mystery operation, and you have to figure out what the operation is. You give the computer/teacher two numbers to calculate, and it tells you the answer. This is your first piece of...
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Calculating Percents 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this calculating percents practice worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to calculate the percents of the 10 listed numbers.
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Calculating the Date of Easter

For Students 6th - 8th
In this calculating the date of Easter worksheet, middle schoolers use the flowchart to enter a year and complete the mathematical calculations to determine the date of Easter in any year.
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Calculating Tips

For Students 4th - 6th
In this calculating tips worksheet, students determine how much should be tipped on amounts spent at restaurants.
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Calculator Game: 3s Times Tables

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this calculator game worksheet, students play a game with multiplication by 3. Students take turns choosing a number in the square and entering a number on the calculator that they think will produce the number in the square when...
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Calculator Game: 5 Times Table

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this multiplication calculator game worksheet, students collaborate with a classmate to play a game. Students use the number grid to choose a square. Students enter a number on the calculator that will equal that number when...
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Shel Silverstein Poetry Math

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the connection between poetry and math by reading poems that involve numbers.  In this Shel Silverstein poetry math lesson, 5th graders listen to 5 poems read aloud and discuss how math was used in the...

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