Students examine and identify gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in school materials, activities, and classroom instruction. They apply descriptive statistics knowledge to real-world data.

Young scholars participate in a game with M&M's to be introduced to percents and ratios. Individually, they estimate and record the number of candies they believe the bag holds and the amount of each colored candy. They open the...

Students examine unemployment in the United States. In this statistics lesson, students examine data and primary sources regarding unemployment in the United States.

Learners define mode, median and mean, and perform mathematical operations to determine these 3 terms. In this statistics/math lesson, students practice memory strategies to help distinguish between mode, median, and mean. Learners apply...

In this fractions worksheet, students multiply and divide fractions. Students multiply 4 fraction problems for review and divide 11 fraction problems.

Learners investigate acoustical ceilings.  In this acoustical ceilings lesson plan, students construct a blueprint for an acoustical ceiling.  Learners use area and perimeter of rectangles to construct their blueprint. ...

Students use the secant and secant segment theorem to solve problems. In this calculus lesson, students identify where the secant line crosses on a circle. They create circles and secants using cabri software.

Students investigate and solve Pythagorean triples. In this geometry lesson, students find the missing sides and angles of a right triangle. They graph right triangles and move the sides around to create different angles.

Students investigate the Pythagorean triples. In this geometry instructional activity, students solve for different parts of a right triangle. They identify the missing side or angle using the pythagorean theorem.

Students create a design of a circle. In this geometry instructional activity, students identify the measure of the diameter and radius of a circle. They graph and analyze their collected data and write equations based on direct variation.

Students define fluctuation and the price of food. In this algebra instructional activity, students create a budget to live on based on their living expenses. They create a chart and explore the cause and effect of real life scenarios.

Students convert between fractions, decimals, and percents using money. In this conversions lesson plan, students play with a mock store in class.

Students gather data from a web site on number of music albums sold by genre for the last two years. They convert these figures to fractions, decimals, and percents, and display the results in bar graphs and pie charts.

Students use FoilSim to demonstrate that the graphic analysis of the airflow around one object can be used to hypothesize airflow graphs for objects as they are elongated from a sphere to an airfoil shape.

Young scholars use the FoilSim educational software program to complete an activity regarding lift. They solve a multivariable equation for each of the variables and apply the results to various problems in different situations.

Eighth graders measure foot length and hand span in this experiment to determine the ratio. They apply the ratio to determine Shaquille O'Neal's hand span if given his shoe size.

Students use Indiana and Michigan state road maps to trace a route to Canada from Madison, IN. with the many possible stops along the way. They make a picture book that depicts a runaway slave's journey on UCR.

Students accurately assess their own income taxes using actual tax forms. They read and fill out the proper forms.

Students explore physics. They investigate the strategies used by an engineer to solve a problem. Students construct various models to solve the problem. They display their solutions and explain how they solved the problem.

Students investigate how Global Positioning Systems work and how and why GPS receivers make errors. They graph data points and apply estimation and prediction to real-life GPS situations, discuss time delay, and complete a worksheet.

Students compare the price and quality of different kinds of plastic kitchen wraps and then rank them from best to worst. They take into account how well it comes out of the roll, if it seals well, it is tangles, how much weight it...

Young scholars determine the energy content of various snack foods. They measure the temperature changes in various snack foods as the foods are burned in order to determine the foods' energy content. Students create graphs and data...

Students play a PowerPoint activity to be used as a review of basic skills for order of operations, and the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division for whole numbers, some fractional numbers and integers....

Students review their numbers up to one hundred. Using a chart, they compare and predict patterns that might be in the numbers. They practice skip counting and grouping numbers. Using a spreadsheet, they graph different sets of numbers...