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NASA

Just How Far is That Star?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils often wonder how we know the distance to various stars. Starting with a thought experiment and progressing to a physical experiment, they determine the brightness and distance to various stars. The evaluation requires...
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Handout
Charleston School District

Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal

For Students 8th Standards
Pupils study angle measurements between different types of angles associated with parallel lines and transversals. The independent practice asks pupils to identify the types of angles in a diagram and to determine the measure of...
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Handout
Charleston School District

Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 8th Standards
Use patterns to your advantage! The Pythagorean Theorem allows learners to find missing sides of right triangles. Problems include those with both rational and irrational lengths. 
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Assessment
Charleston School District

Review Unit 8: Geometry Applicaitons

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Pupils complete a review worksheet that highlights the key problems from the first eight lessons in the series. Topics include the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse, as well as finding volume of three-dimensional figures.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Searching a Region in the Plane

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Programming a robot is a mathematical task! The activity asks learners to examine the process of programming a robot to vacuum a room. They use a coordinate plane to model the room, write equations to represent movement, determine the...
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Angle Measurement

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
What do you create when you rotate a ray? An angle! Teach all the angle basics including naming, measuring, supplements, and complements. 
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Willow Tree

Measurement

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Build a basic understanding of units of measure and create a great foundation for your learners. The lesson gives a complete overview of everything measurement, from types of measurement to rounding to conversions — it has it all! 
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Area of Common Geometric Figures

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Scholars can use area formulas, but can they apply what they know about area? The lesson plan challenges learners to think logically while practicing finding area of shapes such as rectangles, circles, parallelograms, triangles, and...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Modeling with Polynomials—An Introduction (part 2)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Linear, quadratic, and now cubic functions can model real-life patterns. High schoolers create cubic regression equations to model different scenarios. They then use the regression equations to make predictions.
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Teach Engineering

It's Tiggerific!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Spring into elastic potential energy with a lesson that provides background information on determining the elastic potential energy of springs and other elastic materials. General energy equations emphasize the conservation of...
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Teach Engineering

Energy Storage Derby and Proposal

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Small groups use the engineering design process to build and test a vehicle capable of carrying 250 grams a distance of five meters. The design must allow for the storage of potential energy and turn it into motion,...
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Lesson Plan
Brown University

Youth Activism and the Dakota Access Pipeline

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Do young people have a role in social movements? Should they? The involvement of young people in the Dakota Access Pipeline is the focus of a resource that asks class members to examine letters written by native youths who oppose the...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Solution Sets to Inequalities with Two Variables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What better way to learn graphing inequalities than through discovering your own method! Class members use a discovery approach to finding solutions to inequalities by following steps that lead them through the process and...
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EngageNY

Introduction to Networks

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Watch as matrices break networks down into rows and columns! Individuals learn how a network can be represented as a matrix. They also identify the notation of matrices.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Networks and Matrix Arithmetic

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Doubling a network or combining two networks is quick and easy when utilizing matrices. Learners continue the network example in the second lesson of this series. They practice adding, subtracting, and multiplying matrices by a scalar...
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EngageNY

Matrix Arithmetic in Its Own Right

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Matrix multiplication can seem random to pupils. Here's a instructional activity that uses a real-life example situation to reinforce the purpose of matrix multiplication. Learners discover how to multiply matrices and relate the process...
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Balanced Assessment

Frosting on the Cake

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Party planners need algebra too! Here, pupils decide the perfect size of a cake based on available ingredients. They use the concepts of area and perimeter to make their conclusions.
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Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Swimming Pool

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Swimming is more fun with quantities. The short assessment task encompasses finding the volume of a trapezoidal prism using an understanding of quantities. Individuals make a connection to the rate of which the pool is filled with a...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Why Are Vectors Useful? 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Investigate the application of vector transformations applied to linear systems. Individuals use vectors to transform a linear system translating the solution to the origin. They apply their understanding of vectors, matrices,...
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EngageNY

Using Matrix Operations for Encryption

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Data encryption is an important security measure for sensitive data stored on computers. Pupils learn how to utilize matrices for creating code. They also get a great review of matrix multiplication, inverse matrices, and the identity...
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Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Rugs

For Teachers 8th Standards
The class braids irrational numbers, Pythagoras, and perimeter together. The mini-assessment requires scholars to use irrational numbers and the Pythagorean Theorem to find perimeters of rugs. The rugs are rectangular, triangular,...
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Lesson Plan
Rochester Institue of Technology

Ergonomic Design

For Teachers 6th - 12th
To an engineer, the glass is never half full; it's just double the necessary size. The fifth installment of a nine-part technology and engineering series teaches pupils about the idea of ergonomic design. Measurements of popliteal height...
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Exploring Acceleration with an Android

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Small groups use rubber bands to accelerate an Android device along a track of books. They collect the acceleration data and analyze it in order to determine the device's velocity. 
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Activity
Star Date

Shadow Play

For Teachers K - 5th
Three activities make up a solar system lesson that features the sun, its light, and the shadows it produces. Scholars step outside to discover the changes shadows make at different times of day, take part in a demonstration of...

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