Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: More Christmas Boxes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Sharpen your logic and spatial reasoning skills while working on this challenge. Solution available.
Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Geometry Word Problems: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Introduces how to set up and solve simple geometric-figure word problems. Includes advice regarding formulas to memorize.
Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Mathworld: General Solid Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has links to general solid geometry topics, including depth, height, width, and length. A good introductory site into geometry.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Safari: The First People

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Emulate the work of archaeologists in South Africa attempting to solve the riddles of human evolution by inferring a person's height from the length of one bone. Identify and communicate present-day rituals through ancient art techniques.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Volume of Right Rectangular Prisms

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn how unit cubes can be used to model the solution for the volume of a 3D figure This video focuses on calculating the volume of a rectangular prism using the equation, length x width x height. This video was submitted through the...
Unit Plan
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Observaciones Y Modelos en Astronomia

For Students 6th - 8th
How does the length of the day change? How does the height of the sun change? Do we always see the same star? The answer to these questions and different observations about the sun, the moon and the stars that we can do from earth can be...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Do You Measure Up? (With the Ti 10)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students measure weight, height, and length with the help of a balance, scales, rulers, yardstick, and tape measures. They use their TI-10 to find proportions and to round off answers to whole numbers.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Rhombus Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Calculate certain variables of a rhombus depending on the inputs provided. Calculations include side lengths, corner angles, diagonals, height, perimeter, and area of a rhombus.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Parallelogram Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Calculate certain variables of a parallelogram depending on the inputs provided. Calculations include side lengths, corner angles, diagonals, height, perimeter, and area of parallelograms.
Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Pyramid of Unas

For Students 9th - 10th
The pyramid of Unas, who was the last pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty, is nowadays rather dilapidated. All of its outer covering has vanished except for that on the southern face, where a few of the limestone blocks were restored in ancient...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Relief of North America, 1890

For Students 9th - 10th
A relief map from 1890 of North America, Central America, Greenland, and the Caribbean to Puerto Rico showing the general mountain systems, highlands, and plains of the region. Major river systems are shown. "North America is the third...