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EngageNY

Using the Quadratic Formula

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is the connection between the quadratic formula and the types of solutions of a quadratic equation? Guide young mathematicians through this discovery as they use the discriminant to determine the number and types of solutions, and...
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EngageNY

Deriving the Quadratic Formula

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Where did that formula come from? Lead pupils on a journey through completing the square to discover the creation of the quadratic formula. Individuals use the quadratic formula to solve quadratic equations and compare the method to...
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Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Organic Formulae 2

For Students 6th - 12th
Is your chemistry class frustrated by the multitude of representations of organic molecules? Add some challenging puzzles to an otherwise ho-hum organic lesson and let the fun begin! The second of a two-part activity focused on basic...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Derivation of the Quadratic Formula

For Students 9th - 11th Standards
What connection does the quadratic formula have with a quadratic equation? Using a matching activity, pupils construct the algebraic derivation of the quadratic formula in this Algebra II lesson task. The task provides two variations of...
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Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Ionic Formulae 1

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
The ionic formula for banana would be BaNa2. Scholars work their way through four puzzles reviewing ionic formulas. Each puzzle requires scientific knowledge as well as logic and problem-solving skills.
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Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Ionic Formulae 2

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Scientists call ions with a negative charge anions. Scholars work through one matching puzzle and four logic puzzles reviewing the chemical formulas for anion ions. Each level increases in difficulty and solidifies the concept in pupils'...
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Newseum

Media Ethics: Fairness Formula Starts With Accuracy

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
As part of a study of media ethics, young journalists apply a fairness formula to news reports. They look at accuracy, balance, completeness, detachment, and ethics to determine if the reporting is fair.
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Curated OER

Percentage Composition and Empirical & Molecular Formula

For Students 10th - 12th
In this compounds learning exercise, students determine the empirical and molecular formulas for given compounds. This learning exercise has 10 problems to solve.
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Curated OER

Distance Formula with Decimals 1

For Students 4th - 8th
In this distance formula worksheet, students complete the distance formula with numbers with decimals. Students complete 16 problems total.
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EngageNY

The Volume Formula of a Pyramid and Cone

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Our teacher told us the formula had one-third, but why? Using manipulatives, classmates try to explain the volume formula for a pyramid. After constructing a cube with six congruent pyramids, pupils use scaling principles from previous...
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PPT
Science Geek

Ionic Compound Formulas

For Teachers 9th - 12th
By contrasting cations and anions, this presentation shows how to predict ionic charges by periodic groups. The slides conclude with a few guided practice problems for writing ionic compound formulas. 
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Explicit Formulas: Tiles for Writing nth Term in a Sequence

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Build an explicit formula using tiles. Pupils develop a tile representation of a term within a sequence given figures of previous terms. Using the diagrams, learners develop the explicit formula by recognizing the common difference and...
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Beyond Benign

Shampoozled—Part 1: Formula Calculation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Time for your classes to show off what they've learned! The 11th installment in the series of 24 uses concepts learned in the previous 10 lessons to create the perfect shampoo formula. Their formulas consider both sustainability and...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Distance Formula: Right Triangles

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Go the distance with a far out resource. Individuals use an interactive to create right triangles on a coordinate plane to help find distance between two points. Challenge questions aid them in developing the distance formula.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Midpoint and Segment Bisectors: The Midpoint Formula

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Let's meet in the middle. Given two points on the coordinate plane, pupils use the interactive to find the midpoint. The interactive provides a graphical display of the midpoint and the midpoint formula with the coordinates of the...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Recursive Formulas: Fibonacci Sequence

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Explore the building blocks of the Fibonacci Sequence. Given the lengths of sides of squares, pupils deduce the pattern to determine the lengths of two more squares. Learners continue to work with recursive formulas to generate numerical...
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Mathed Up!

Changing the Subject of a Formula

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
What to do with more than one variable? Part of a larger series, the video shows how to solve a formula for another variable. Pupils solve equations with more than one variable for a given variable of interest. Problems include linear,...
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Curated OER

Finance Formulas Review Sheet

For Students 9th - 12th
Keep your finances straight—more like finance formulas straight—with a well-organized formula guide full of everything you need. Starting with simple interest and ending with future and present value, this sheet can be useful for many...
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5280 Math

Stories That Formulas Tell

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Learn the stories a formula holds. An interesting lesson takes a unique approach to teach how to use formulas. Beginning with a formula, learners predict what the variables stand for and then use the formula to make calculations and tell...
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Curated OER

Writing Chemical Formulas

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students study how to write chemical fomulas by reviewing the combinations atoms form into compounds. They write a procedure to test various substances and name the compounds and write formulas. As they construct models for formulas and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Empirical and Molecular Formulas

For Students 9th - 12th
In this compounds worksheet, students write the empirical formulas or the molecular formula for the given chemical compounds. This worksheet has 20 problems to solve.
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PPT
Curated OER

Empirical Formula: From Percentage to Formula

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Starting with definitions of empirical and molecular formulas, this slide show guides pupils through the ways to calculate and produce chemical formulas as percentages and molar ratios. A number of examples are given for viewers to try...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Distance Formulas

For Students 7th - 8th
In this distance formulas worksheet, students identify and complete 9 various questions that include using the distance formulas to solve. First, they use the formulas given to respond to each of the questions in the tables shown on the...
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Curated OER

The Distance Formula and Marching Nonviolently for Social Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the distance formula using real world data from nonviolent marches for social change.  For this secondary mathematics lesson, students investigate the marches of Gandhi and King using maps overlaid with a coordinate...

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