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Primary Understanding and Use of Place Value

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Explore place value and regrouping with your class. They develop awareness of several ancient number systems and how they differ from the base ten system commonly used today. They play "Chip Trading" with partners to practice addition...
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BBC

Simple Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a wonderful activity designed for young mathematicians. In it, they employ simple addition and subtraction strategies in order to solve word problems. There are some excellent activity sheets embedded in the plan to make the...
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EngageNY

Four Interesting Transformations of Functions (Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What happens to a function whose graph is translated horizontally? Groups find out as they investigate the effects of addition and subtraction within a function. This nineteenth instructional activity in a 26-part series focuses on...
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Curated OER

Identifying Horizontal, Vertical and Oblique Lines

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders watch the teacher draw a horizontal line across the board. They listen to the definition of horizontal and has a student demonstrate putting their body in a horizontal position. This is repeated with a vertical line. The...
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Curated OER

Area, Arithmetic and Algebra

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
Explore the concept of this perfect square trinomial and difference of squares instructional activity. A hands-on activity that uses paper rectangles and squares to illustrate the perfect-square trinomial and difference of squares formulas.
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Dividing with Fractions

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Use paper strips or models to relate division problems to division of fraction problems. Since the materials can be broken up, it helps them to show how they can complete repeated subtraction with fractions and not just whole numbers.
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Curated OER

Combining Like Terms

For Teachers 8th - 9th
In this combining like terms worksheet, young scholars solve and complete 20 different problems that include combining like terms in various algebraic expressions. First, they define like terms to determine how to combine them. Then,...
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Curated OER

Adding and Subtracting Polynomials

For Teachers 6th - 9th
For use with a TI-nspire calculator, this lesson focuses on adding and subtracting polynomials. Learners use calculator to add and subtract polynomials using both the vertical method horizontal methods. A class discussion follows the...
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Curated OER

Interior Design Techniques in Black and White

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create interior designs using white paper and black ink. In the process, they incorporate all four line techniques - horizontal, vertical, curved, and diagonal. While the designs do not need to be tangible representations of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

"Like Terms", I Add Them

For Teachers 9th Standards
Ninth graders add and subtract polynomials.  In this Algebra I lesson plan, 9th graders work practice problems as they view a PowerPoint presentation of the lesson plan.  Both the horizontal and vertical methods of addition and...
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Curated OER

Elements Picture Assignment

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students identify the basic structural and decorative designs, create examples of line (horizontal/vertical/curved/diagonal), as well as identify and explain the difference between shape and form. Then, they identify and explain the use...
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Cornell University

Buoyancy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Swimmers know to float by turning their bodies horizontally rather than vertically, but why does that make a difference? In an interesting instructional activity, scholars explore buoyancy and the properties of air and water. They test...
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Physics Classroom

All Work and No Play Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Don't let the term, "slotted wood board" detract you from the value of this experiment. Class members tie a string to a cart and, with even horizontal force, drag it up an inclined plane. The objective is to compare the work done with...
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Utah Education Network (UEN)

Subtracting Integers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Review the concepts of additive inverses and adding positive and negative integers. Relate understanding to the subtraction of integers. This is done with either the use of "Algeblocks" (any square or tile manipulative should do) or...
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Curated OER

True North, Magnetic North

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explain why compass angles need to be corrected for regional magnetic variation. They observe the difference between magnetic and true north. Each student measures the angle of variation for a town in a different state.
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Finding a Difference

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students find a small difference by counting up from the smaller to the larger number. They count the ones that don't match, lay them horizontally to match them to the orientation of the number line and show the two numbers on...
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Curated OER

Got These Properties? (Commutative in Addition/Zero in Addition and Subtraction)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the commutative property of addition and the property of zero in addition and subtraction. They complete an asessment worksheet to gain practice reading and working number sentences horizontally and vertically.
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Maya Math: Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners examine how ancient Maya counted, and practice addition and subtraction using Maya number glyphs.
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Curated OER

Incredible Inventions That Make A Difference

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use reading and research skills to retrieve and synthesize information about inventions that have made an impact in their lives. They complete a horizontal timeline adding a picture or graphic above each date.
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Curated OER

Counting Back and Counting On

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Read aloud your choice of books about counting on and counting back (a list is provided, or tell stories of your own). Your learners will write horizontal equations to portray what happens in the story. They build a paper chain and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Downhill

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
A car traveling down a steep hill is the model for this resource. The confusion comes when the elevation, E, is given in terms of distance, d. The distance, d, is the horizontal distance from E. Therefore, the equation, E = 7500 – 250d,...
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Curated OER

Walking on Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use this problem to help them to relate to force vectors: Suspend a meterstick horizontally between two tables. Place a 1kg mass in the middle of the meterstick. Notice the bend of the meterstick. Explain why the...
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Curated OER

Graph Paper Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young artists divide a piece of graph paper into sections using rectangles, squares, and triangles. They then fill each section with patterns of shape and color. Elementary graders describe how their patterns are organized. Secondary...
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Operations with Positive Fractions and Decimals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore the concept of fractions and decimals! In this fractions and decimals lesson, pupils use fraction tiles to express fractions. They play a fraction review basketball game where when a team gets a question correct they get to shoot...

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