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Baseball Math

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Pupils collect data on baseball plays. In this statistics lesson, students graph their data and make predictions based on their observation. They calculate what the probability is that a favorable outcome would happen.
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Percent Increase and Decrease

For Teachers 7th Standards
Increase the percent of pupils that are fluent in solving change problems with an activity that asks class members to look at problems that involve either increases or decreases and to express the change in terms of the percent of...
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EngageNY

Read Expressions in Which Letters Stand for Numbers III

For Teachers 6th Standards
Those key operation words sure come in handy. Groups continue their work with converting between different notations for algebraic expressions. They work in stations to write the symbolic form for given verbal phrases. This is the 17th...
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Getting the Job Done—Speed, Work, and Measurement Units II

For Students 6th Standards
How fast is your class? Learners determine the amount of time it takes individuals to walk a given distance and calculate their speeds. Pupils solve distance, rate, and time problems using the formula and pay attention to the...
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Dilations on the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 8th Standards
Dilations from the origin have a multiplicative effect on the coordinates of a point. Pupils use the method of finding the image of a point on a ray after a dilation to find a short cut. Classmates determine the short cut of being...
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The Division Algorithm—Converting Decimal Division into Whole Number Division Using Fractions

For Students 6th Standards
Knowing the standard algorithm opens up a whole new world of division. Scholars learn how to convert division involving decimals to division involving whole numbers to use the standard algorithm. Knowing how to multiply with powers of...
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Divisibility Tests for 3 and 9

For Students 6th Standards
Who knew the sum of a number's digits gives such interesting information? The 18th installment of a 21-part module has scholars investigate division by three and nine. After looking at several examples, they develop divisibility tests...
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Drawing the Coordinate Plane and Points on the Plane

For Students 6th Standards
To plot a point in the coordinate plane, you first need a coordinate plane. Pupils learn to draw an appropriate set of axes with labels on a coordinate plane. They must also determine a reasonable scale to plot given coordinate pairs on...
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The Relationship of Multiplication and Addition

For Teachers 6th Standards
You know 4 + 4 + 4 = 3(4), but what about x + x + x? Pairs work together to develop equivalent expressions relating multiplication and addition in the third lesson of a 36-part series. They extend their knowledge of multiplication as...
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The Relationship of Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 6th Standards
Add an outstanding resource to your repertoire. The first installment of a 36-part module looks at the relationship between addition and subtraction through an activity using tape diagrams. Pupils develop the identities w – x + x =...
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Two-Step Problems—All Operations

For Teachers 6th Standards
Step 1: Use the resource. Step 2: Watch your class become experts in solving two-step problems. Scholars learn to solve two-step word problems in context. They use tape diagrams and algebraic techniques to break the problem into two,...
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The Relationship of Multiplication and Division

For Teachers 6th Standards
Take any number, multiply it by five, and then divide by five. Did you end up with the original number? In the same vein as the previous lesson plan, pupils discover the relationship between multiplication and division. They develop the...
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Read Expressions in Which Letters Stand for Numbers

For Teachers 6th Standards
Pencil in the resource on writing verbal phrases into your lesson plans. The 15th installment of a 36-part module has scholars write verbal phases for algebraic expressions. They complete a set of problems to solidify this skill.
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Associated Ratios and the Value of a Ratio

For Teachers 6th Standards
Do ratios have values? The seventh activity in a series of 29 introduces the value of a ratio. Pupils create associated ratios to a given ratio. They also describe the fraction associated to the ratio as the value of the ratio.
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The Concept of a Function

For Students 8th Standards
Explore functions with non-constant rates of change. The first installment of a 12-part module teaches young mathematicians about the concept of a function. They investigate instances where functions do not have a constant rate of change.
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What Lies Behind “Same Shape”?

For Teachers 8th Standards
Develop a more precise definition of similar. The lesson begins with an informal definition of similar figures and develops the need to be more precise. The class learns about dilations and uses that knowledge to arrive at a...
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The Line Joining Two Distinct Points of the Graph y=mx+b Has Slope m

For Teachers 8th Standards
Investigate the relationship between the slope-intercept form and the slope of the graph. The lesson plan leads an investigation of the slope-intercept equation of a line and its slope. Pupils realize the slope is the same as the...
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The Distributive Property and the Products of Decimals

For Students 6th Standards
Make multiplication of decimals easier by applying the distributive property. Pupils investigate how they can use the distributive property to multiply decimals. After learning the strategy, they work on some practice problems at...
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EngageNY

Problem Solving and the Coordinate Plane

For Students 6th Standards
Class members investigate rectangles on the coordinate plane. They determine the length of line segments in the coordinate plane with the same x-coordinate or same y-coordinate and then solve geometric problems involving perimeter...
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Replacing Letters with Numbers II

For Teachers 6th Standards
Teach about properties properly. Individuals investigate the commutative and identity properties for both addition and multiplication. They see that the properties hold true for all values by using substitution to test out several examples.
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Nature of Solutions of a System of Linear Equations

For Teachers 8th Standards
If at first you cannot graph, substitute. The instructional activity introduces the substitution method as a way to solve linear systems if the point of intersection is hard to determine from a graph. The 28th installment of a 33-part...
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Definition of Rotation and Basic Properties

For Students 8th Standards
Examine the process of rotating images to visualize effects of changes to them. The fifth lesson of 18 prompts pupils to rotate different images to various degrees of rotation. It pays special attention to rotations in multiples of 90...
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Some Facts About Graphs of Linear Equations in Two Variables

For Teachers 8th Standards
Develop another way to find the equation of a line. The lesson introduces the procedure to find the equation of a line given two points on the line. Pupils determine the two points from the graph of the line.
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Decimal Expansions of Fractions, Part 1

For Students 8th Standards
Is it possible to add infinitely long decimals? As pupils complete the examples in the ninth lesson plan of this 25-part series, they determine that adding these decimals cannot be done without error. Their task is then to determine the...

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