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What's My Number?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use AppleWorks to stamp a given number to the thousandths place. They read, write and order integers, whole numbers and rational numbers. They represent place value using concrete or illustrated models.
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Balancing the Scales: Understanding Ratios

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are introduced to the concept of ratios. In groups, they convert sets of numbers into a ratio. After practicing, they use the ratios and proportions to solve story problems. They also calculate map distances and discover map...
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Egyptian Fractions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders take a brief look at what is known about Egyptian Fractions. These are unit fractions - fractions whose numerator is one. We look at how fractions can be represented in terms of Egyptian Fractions. Finally we suggest a web...
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Integrating Functions

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, middle schoolers find the answers to the functions that includes integration and trigonometry. They use the examples for help with the special functions.
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Using Negative Numbers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice using negative numbers by completing number equations.  In this math problem solving lesson plan, 6th graders discuss the different ways negative numbers can be used in a math problem and practice completing...
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Jobs and Salaries

For Students 9th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students look for the budgets and go through the practical activities of maintaining a monthly expense sheet.
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Cannot Buy Me Love

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Pupils investigate the concepts that are related to finance and how it is used in the world. They take part in activities that are focused around the use of a spreadsheet while using a T-chart to simulate a ledger of credits and debits.
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Venn Diagrams & Word Problems

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners explore the concept of Venn Diagrams through word problems. In this Venn Diagram lesson plan, students solve word problems about groups of people using Venn Diagrams. Learners use survey results about MySpace and Facebook in a...
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Population Ratios

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars access web site and record various population statistics pertaining to a county in the USA of their choice. They use this data to set up and solve ratios. They compare data to make meaning of the numbers.
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Pieced Flowers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice making pieced flower blocks to be used on their quilts. As a class, they create simple and complicated templates to be used as a stand alone wall hanging. They share their creation with the class and receive...
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Buying My First Car

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.
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Time Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make sensible estimates and check for reasonable results. They also solve problems with positive and negative integers using practical activities or models as needed.
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Adding Ten Tiles I

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students practice this problem that needs a certain amount of experimentation (trial and error) to get any answer at all. In the process they practice their basic number facts. However, to get the complete set of answers Students need to...
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Eight Basic Elements of the Earth

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students identify the concept of an element and work with an idea that all of the millions of substances on the earth are various combinations of only 8 elements. They work with the Periodic Table of the Elements and symbols of the...

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