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Fra-Per-Dec

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of ordering fractions and finding equivalent fractions. In this ordering fractions and finding equivalent fractions lesson, students play a card game where middle schoolers must collect 5 cards with...
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A Tough Nut to Crack

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study the origins and background of the pecan.  In this agriculture lesson students divide into groups, complete an activity and worksheets.
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Brain Teaser -"Prizes"

For Students 4th - 6th
In this brain teaser activity, learners solve 1 brain teaser word problem. A website reference is given for additional activities. 
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Create A Question

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore mathematical problem solving. Given a case problem, students write a rule to solve problems involving decimal multiplication and division. They invent problems, share them with the class, and solve other student's...
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Ohio Census 1990 and 2000

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students begin the lesson by examining Census data from the state of Ohio from 1990 and 2000. Using a worksheet, they solve problems using the data and a calculator. They share their responses with the class and discuss what the data...
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Rubber Gardens

For Teachers K - 8th
Students recycle discarded automobile tires and create gardening sites for limited space areas.
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Closer To the Ground Lesson 2: Providing a Helping Hand

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how businesses and corporations contribute or sponsor activities for the common good. They read annual reports of major corporations to determine how they contribute to focused activities for the common good.
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Creating a Bar Graph with a Graphing Program

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars use the S'COOL data base to create a bar graph.
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Gotcha Covered

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners participate in investments. They purchase property for future financial return or benefit. They discover a stock strategy in which you own stock and write (sell) a call at the next strike price above the current stock value.
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Graphing Inertia: An Oxymoron?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate Newton's Law of Inertia in order to create a context for the review of the use of different types of graphs. They practice gathering the data from an experiment and put it into the correct corresponding graph.
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Free Cell

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use algebra to begin solving a problem. The problem has a real world application to engage learners. The main skill is converting fractions and decimals. Also finding the right number sentence for the word problem is...
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Time Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars make sensible estimates and check for reasonable results. They also solve problems with positive and negative integers using practical activities or models as needed.
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Adding Ten Tiles I

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students practice this problem that needs a certain amount of experimentation (trial and error) to get any answer at all. In the process they practice their basic number facts. However, to get the complete set of answers Students need to...
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"NSN, Fractions/Decimals" Investigations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders engage in a "layered" unit of discovery. There are three levels of potential learning opportunities, in the spirit of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (bronze, silver, gold). The instructional activity is based upon fractions.
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A Pocketful of Change

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study the meaning, symbolism, and value of U.S. coins, especially the quarter. They conduct a survey of coins in students' possession, graphing the results to show frequency distribution and drawing inferences about the U.S....
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Binary Operations

For Students 7th
In this binary operations worksheet, 7th graders solve and complete 12 different problems that include various types of binary operations. First, they determine if the operation used is commutative. Then, students name the identity...
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Population Ratios

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students access web site and record various population statistics pertaining to a county in the USA of their choice. They use this data to set up and solve ratios. They compare data to make meaning of the numbers.
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The Household Environment Survey

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils examine data collected from a national survey of household environmental practices to develop their own questionaires. Once they have their own survey questions, students conduct their own investigations, and report their findings.
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Writing an Equation: Fundraiser

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students represent relationships between variables by writing, creating, and solving linear equations, and using tables and graphing.
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Coin Probability

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in pairs, receive three different types of coin bags. They pick coins out of the bag and tally what was picked fifteen times. They do it with all three bags for three separate tallies.
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Who Would Have Figured?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate what happens when a coin is tossed a few times versus many times. They analyze, in groups, the data from tossing coins, and the Law of Large Numbers.
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Which Is the Better Car Deal?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners investigate whether it is more economically sound to take a low financing rate or rebate when purchasing a car.
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Mathematics: It's a Wrap!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars calculate the amount of wrapping paper needed to wrap boxes. They describe how they determined their answers.
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Where in the Usa is Radon?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine the areas of New Jersey and the US that are likely to have high radon concentrations. Students draw a map of their own neighborhood that show soil associations in their neighborhood.

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