It's time to check the mail! The task is to determine the most cost-effective way to mail a packet of information. Young scholars write an equation that models the amount of postage as a function of the number of sheets mailed and...

A mail truck travels the same amount of miles per day. It will be up to your algebra learners to find an equation for this mailman’s truck. One needs a good understanding of rate of change and the initial value for this model. The...

Determining relationships is all part of algebra and functions. Your mathematicians will decide the type of relationship between airports and population and translate what the slope and y-intercept represent. The problem is multiple...

Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom may keep postal workers from delivering the mail, but is their livelihood sustainable? A question about the USPS makes up one of the three items in a series of free-response questions from the...

To examine mathematical functions in a modeling situation pupils combine quadratic and step functions to represent a presented scenario. They both graph and write a function to represent data shown in a table. 

Good advertisers can make mathematics seem irrelevant. Teach your classes to use math to see through these tactics and make good decisions. The posed task has pupils analyze sweepstakes statistics to determine and compare the cost of...

Fred thinks his test score is high enough to earn him a certificate. Given the mean and standard deviation, use properties of normal distributions to calculate Fred's percentile ranking and see if he is right. Consider having your class...

By using language like "half of the stamps," children are exposed to patterns in arithmetic that requires solving a two-step word problem. This type of language opens a new door for transitioning learners toward understanding fractions...

Develop an understanding of the Map, Keep, and Combine operations. The lab leads the class through the exploration of three list operations. Each task contains a self-check to measure scholars' understanding of the operation in the...

Transform your scholars into mathematicians as they develop their own geometric definition. The task asks individuals to compare cylindrical objects and create a definition for the disc-ness of each object. They may use any method and...

Who's Buck? Give your pupils this short quiz to test reading comprehension, or choose specific questions from the document to include in a more comprehensive unit test.

You may want to recommend that your class check out this online quiz on Call of the Wild as a means of self-assessing basic reading comprehension; however, it lacks the rigor necessary for a worthy assignment.

In this online interactive idioms worksheet, students determine which multiple choice answer best answers each of the 10 questions dealing with strange expressions.

In this people who wear uniforms activity, students write what job they have based on the description. Students complete 11 questions.

For this online interactive ESL worksheet, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions regarding Valentine's Day. Students check their answers immediately.

Students take a quiz on homonyms. In this homonyms lesson plan, students take a multiply choice quiz on words that sound alike but that are spelled and mean different things.

In this homonyms worksheet, students complete a 20 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about the correct use of homonyms in sentences.

In this confused words worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences by choosing the correct confusing word. Students complete 20 sentences.

In this commonly confused words worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences by choosing the correct commonly confused word. Students complete 20 sentences.

In this verb tense worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice online interactive quiz about the correct verb tense in sentences.

This task assesses a student's ability to construct a linear function and interpret its parameters within the context of a mail truck's mileage. Aligns with 8.F.B.4.

Assess students learning of linear functions with a summative assessment.

A short multiple-choice quiz on the Pony Express.