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FREE STANDING STRUCTURE
Students demonstrate basic construction skills by building a free standing structure. They compute the cost of the structure.
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Practice Problems: Correlation and Linear Regression
In this correlation and linear regression activity, learners examine data to determine the statistic mean. They compute the percent of the variability. This three-page activity contains 16 problems. Answers provided.
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Estimating Prices
Students practice making reasonable estimates. In this consumer math, students round purchase prices of items to estimate the total cost. Students practice using metal computations to arrive at estimates.
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
Students purchase gift items and practice collecting, analyzing, computing, and recording information. In this data lesson plan, students also complete money equivalent activities.
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Investigating the Probability
Students investigate probability using coins and dice. They collect data, graph, organize and interpret data. They predict, describe, compare, compute and draw conclusions based on what they observe and record.
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Bridge Building
Eighth graders will create model drawings of bridges and integrate technology into the process of creating a visual representation. Technology is used in the industry of design and architecture. This lesson helps to build real life skills.
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Who Wants Pizza?
Students practice fraction skills online at the "Want Some Pizza" website. They complete activities via the internet and on square grid paper. They pull down tabs to check their answers.
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Spreadsheet Budget Project
Eighth graders record all the food they eat for one week, compute the costs for all of this food, and display the different categories on a spreadsheet and then convert to a chart.
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You Are Invited to Design and Build a Dream Room
Seventh graders watch a video and enlarge and shrink scale by applying proportional thinking. They practice measuring, using percentages, computing area, and problem solving.
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Getting Started With Java-Background
Students study the history of computers including hardware and software, binary representation of data and examine the beginnings of programming languages. They investigate the development of software and the fundamentals of...
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Whale of a Web Site
Students compare and contrast differences and likeness of whales/fish and toothed/baleen whales and discuss what they know about whales and what they would like to study about whales. They then describe the characteristics of a mammal.
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Aw Chute!
Students are presented with the problem of constructing a parachute that has the maximum hang time. They construct their own parachute using available materials. Pupils drop their parachutes from a height of two meters and record the...
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Worksheet 11
In this math worksheet, students find a solution basis and compute the Wronskian for each of the equations. Then they sketch a graph of a typical solution.
Helping with Math
#10: Solving Equations (2 of 2)
In this prealgebra activity, pupils perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division operations to solve for an unknown. There are 12 problems to be solved. Use this as a quiz to assess how well your class is grasping the skill...
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Menu Word Problems Worksheet #8
In this adding and subtracting monetary amounts activity, learners use their problem solving skills to solve 10 word problems.
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Menu Word Problems Worksheet #2
For this adding and subtracting monetary amounts worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 10 word problems.
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Menu Word Problems Worksheet #3
In this adding and subtracting monetary amounts worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to solve 10 word problems.
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That was Then, This is Now
Students compare and contrast data charts and statistics for food prices of now and in the past. In this food prices lesson plan, students answer short answer questions and calculate computations.
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Introduction to Earning Interest: What are APR and APY?
Students explore saving and investing money. In this middle school personal finance lesson, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and compound...
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Super Cents
Second graders study money amounts less than a dollar. For this math lesson, 2nd graders practice counting coins. Students read various stories and discuss how money was used in the stories.
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Numeral Analysis: Rate of Convergence
In this rate of convergence worksheet, students use three different methods to compute an order of convergence of a function. This four-page worksheet contains approximately 10 problems, with examples.
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Reteaching Page: 4.9 Multiply Fractions by Whole Numbers
This concise task demonstrates how fraction strips can be used to visualize the multiplication of whole numbers by fractions. Steps are explained for computation, and then a few practice problems follow. This can be useful when first...
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Museum of Computer Technology
High schoolers research the five generations of computing devices and computer inventors, and create a virtual museums.
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Probability and Sports
Students research topics on the internet where probability is relevant. Students study statistics and probability concepts by looking at practical questions that arise in professional sports.