Assessment
Concord Consortium

City of New Orleans

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
In the United States, most trains operate at a top speed of 100 miles per hour. Scholars use information on the distance and time of a train trip to determine if the train ever reaches a specific speed. They connect pieces of information...
Interactive
PHET

Graphing Quadratics

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Quadratics only have three terms, but each one is fairly important. Scholars use an interactive to explore how each coefficient affects the graph of a quadratic function. They also see how changes to the vertex form and how changes to...
Unit Plan
Radford University

Transformational Graphing in the Real World: Bacteria – Growth or Decay?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Grow—not decay—your knowledge of exponential functions. Young mathematicians graph exponential functions and explore how transformations affect the graphs. They decide whether the functions represent growth or decay in the context of...
Unit Plan
Radford University

Midsummer Classic’s Homerun Derby

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Hit a home run with your lessons. A two-part activity has learners explore quadratic equations that model the path of a baseball. They see how changing the initial speed of the ball affects its maximum height, maximum horizontal...
Instructional Video1:25
Corbett Maths

Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
What's the proper way to convert fractions? A short video shows three quick examples of converting an improper fraction to a mixed number. Pupils practice doing their own conversions to better understand the skill.
Lesson Plan
Mathalicious

Pandemic

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young scientists use exponential growth and logarithms to model how a virus spreads through a population. Pupils watch a news clip about the 2012 outbreak of Ebola. Scholars then manipulate inactive graphs to see how various factors...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Business of Interest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about finance and money management and use math to solve problems, communicate, and explore real life situations as they deal with banks. In this financial management lesson, students apply their math skills to real life...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Roofing and Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners use models and symbols to represent properties of the Pythagorean Theorem. In this right triangle lesson, students connect real jobs to properties of right triangles. They solve word problems applying the correct ratios and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Scenario Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students apply their knowledge of math to the real world. In this algebra lesson, students explore different way to incorporate math topics into the real world. They create a score or progress sheet to mark their progress.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Similar Figures

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your class will use a TI calculator to drag vertices of rectangles and triangles to observe what happens to ratios of pairs of sides within each figure. They will apply the definition of similarity to identify similar shapes. The...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Significant What?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners define accuracy and precision, and differentiate between the two terms, apply the concepts of accuracy and precision to a given situation and correctly apply the concept of significant figures to measurement and mathematical...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Border Patrol

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young scholars investigate systems of linear inequalities as they apply to an area of land. They practice graphing systems and determine if a point lies in the solution. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Area Unit

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners solve the area for parallelograms,squares, rectangles, trapezoids, and triangles. In this geometry lesson, students compare and contrast two dimensional shapes and apply their properties to solving real life scenarios. This is a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Tall is that Tree?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students apply their math skills to develop an accurate estimate of the height of a tall tree. Three different methods are outlined. All grade levels should be able to perform the shadow method and the proportional method.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Application of Properties of Quadrilaterals in the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students apply definitions and theorems to verify special quadrilaterals using coordinate geometry. They apply the slope formula, the midpoint formula, and the distance formula to justify that a given quadrilateral is a parallelogram....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Deric's Blotto

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners solve the handshake problem and investigate triangular numbers. In this geometry lesson, students investigate Blotto games as they apply concepts of triangles and geometric theorems.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Ratios to Taste the Rainbow

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students solve problems using ratios and proportion. For this algebra lesson, students analyze skittles and their different colors as they apply the properties of ratios and proportions to solve their problems.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Does Time Have to Do with it?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars investigate time. In this investigative lesson, students run through an obstacle course using standard timers. They record the time and apply this knowledge to problems in math. Young scholars record their predictions, and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Holiday Market Basket Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice with calculation of a price index using a fictitious market basket. They apply higher level problem-solving skills and develop an awareness of multicultural holiday rituals.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Invest In Yourself

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. In this financial management instructional activity, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Scale

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students apply concepts of scales to solve problems. In this geometry lesson, students solve real world problems using scales, proportions and ratios. They predict the actual size of a model given the scale drawings.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparing Ratios

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students solve problems using ratio and proportion. In this math comparison instructional activity, students identify methods used to solve and compare ratio and proportion in the real world. They apply criss cross multiplying to solve...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cardboard Boat Challenge

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students build a boat out of cardboard and tape. They apply Archimedes' Principle to their design.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rhinos and M&M's

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze patterns of exponential models by collecting data in paper folding and M&M investigations. They use graphing calculators to create scatter plots that lead to equations for the exponential models. They then apply this...

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