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5280 Math

Triangle Area Patterns

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Combine algebraic and geometric strategies to find solutions. The task asks learners to find the coordinates of a third vertex of a triangle to create a triangle with a specific area. The project is a set of seven problems that...
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Teach Engineering

The Challenge Question

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
A research position becomes a modeling job. The introductory lesson in a series of nine presents the challenge of analyzing a set of bivariate data. The class brainstorms what the data may represent. Pupils must decide what is needed to...
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Teach Engineering

Android Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Prepare to accelerate your Android. Pupils prep for the upcoming activity in this third installment of a four-part series. The lesson progresses nicely by first introducing different types of acceleration to the class. The teacher...
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California Education Partners

Linflower Seeds

For Students 7th Standards
How does your garden grow? Use proportions to help Tim answer that question. By using their understanding of proportional relationships, pupils determine the number of seeds that will sprout. They create their own linear...
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Teach Engineering

Stay in Shape

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Using their knowledge of right triangles, pupils find out how far a ship is from a light house. Class members determine how far around the world a ship would be sailing at a constant speed.
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Polytechnic Institute of NYU

Potential vs. Kinetic Energy

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Legos in science class? Watch your pupils fall in love with this activity. After learning to measure potential and kinetic energy, young scientists create their own ramps using Lego Mindstorm sensors and software.
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Bouncing Balls

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How high will it bounce? Groups determine the height different balls bounce off of different surfaces. By performing the necessary calculations, they determine the initial and final momentum of the balls. The included worksheet provides...
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Tippy Tap Plus Piping

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Getting water to a tap requires an understanding the fundamentals of fluid flow. Groups design, build, and test a piping system to get water from the source — a five gallon bucket — to a tippy tap. The objective is to be able to...
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Fun with Bernoulli

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Reduce the pressure in the classroom. The second instructional activity in an Airplanes unit of 22 introduces the class to Bernoulli's Principle. Pupils demonstrate the principle by blowing between different objects causing a reduction...
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The Temperature Effect

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How temperature affects the efficiency of a solar panel is the focus of the third in a series of eight resources that presents how engineers are able to control the temperatures of photovoltaic panels. Class members find out how the...
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NASA

What's the Frequency, Roy G. Biv?

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
While all light travels at the same speed, each color in the visible light spectrum contains a different wavelength and frequency. Scholars determine the relationship between frequency and wavelength as they complete the activity. They...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Dividing Numbers

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Three pages make up a reference page designed to help parents understand the concept of division. Division strategies are showcased using detailed descriptions and labeled examples. 
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Middle School Mathematics Test 5

For Students 6th - 8th
A middle school test contains two 40-minute sections covering material through algebra. All questions involve applied problem solving or mathematical analysis.
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Viscous Fluids

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Elasticity and viscosity. Help your class understand the similarities and differences with an introduction to viscous fluids. After describing four types of fluid behaviors: shear thinning, shear thickening, Bringham plastic,...
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Curated OER

Precalculus Test

For Students 10th - 11th
In this calculus activity, students match cosine values with sine values. They solve trigonometric equations and graph functions. There are 20 questions with a bonus question.
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Curated OER

Pre-Calculus Test Chapter 5: Identities

For Students 10th - 12th
In this identities worksheet, students match equivalent expressions containing sine, cosine, and tangent.  They solve equations, find intervals, and determine all solutions to an interval.  Students prove given...
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Curated OER

Slopes, Slope-Intercept Form, Standard Form

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students identify the slope of an equation using various methods. In this algebra lesson plan, students graph linear equations and calculate the slopes using the x and y intercept to solve the equations and graph the lines. They use the...
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Curated OER

Euler Encore 1

For Teachers 11th - 12th
In this math worksheet, students use Euler's Method to solve differential equations. They are given an equation to graph (y'). Students sketch that equation as well as the related equation (y). They find the area of given rectangles and...
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Curated OER

An Exploration of the Slope of a Line

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners define the slope of a line. In this algebra lesson, students differentiate between parallel and perpendicular lines using their slopes. They rewrite equations in slope intercept form and explain the meaning of the slope.
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Curated OER

Hide the Beans

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this subtraction worksheet, students use a spinner to spin to a number between 1 and 9. Students draw that number on the picture of the open hand. Students then find out how many beans are in the other hand by subtracting to complete...
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Helping with Math

Addition - Sums to 12

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Addition practice worksheets are good to have on hand to add to homework packets. On this one, 30 single-digit vertical problems are arranged into six rows of five problems each. Add this to your library of tools for reinforcing addition...
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Curated OER

Lines in the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students graph lines in a coordinate plane. In this geometry lesson, students graph lines on a coordinate plane, and identify the slope. They classify the lines as parallel or perpendicular and write an equation of a given line.
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Curated OER

To Float or Not to Float, That is the Question?

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders develop operational definition of density, do computations using density equation, categorize pieces of matter as being able to float on water or not, based on density, explain why some objects sink or float based on...
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Curated OER

Electrochemistry

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this redox worksheet, students answer 8 questions. They use a diagram of a Galvanic cell to answer questions as well as write balanced equations and solve problems.

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