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Buying My First Car Worksheet 3
In this math worksheet, learners create a spreadsheet for the different costs of the purchase of a car and use the information to answer 3 questions.
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Less Than Or Greater Than
In this less than or greater than worksheet, students utilize the symbols to complete thirty-two number statements.
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Last Will and Testament of Amanda Hugandkiss
Eleventh graders apply mathematical knowledge and reasoning skills to solve a real life problem. In this algebra lesson, 11th graders use a variety of problem solving skills to solve non-routine problems of increasing...
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Measure for Measure: Lengths and Heights
Learners explore measuring tools by calculating heights and lengths of random objects. In this distance measurement lesson, students utilize the Internet service MapQuest to measure the distance between their current towns and many other...
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Math: Who Makes an Epidemic?
Students calculate the threshold value for the number of susceptible people needed to create an epidemic. They examine a real life flu epidemic and use the SIR model to solve the problems. Students discover they can use mathematics to...
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Where in the World?
Students explore how GPS works, the mathematics behind the technology, and how GPS is used. They find positions in one and two dimensions, and participate in a WebQuest that explores how math is used to find a location on Earth using GPS.
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Autumn
Take a walk through the forest as the leaves change color and fall from the trees, making way for a new ecosystem cycle to cycle through. An inquiry-based lesson plan examines how the process of decomposition eliminates tons of...
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The Commutative Cookie
Third graders investigate the commutative properties of multiplication and focus upon the setting of cubes in the correct patterns to solve problems. They differentiate between numbers that have multiple factors and prime numbers....
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How to Calculate Your Age by Chocolate
In this math puzzle learning exercise, students follow detailed directions to find their age. They begin with the number of times per week they eat chocolate. Their final answer tells how much chocolate they want or eat as well as their...
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The Price is Right?
Twelfth graders read "A Primer on Gasoline Prices" and complete a worksheet on the price of gas. They discuss supply and demand and what a consumer can do about prices at the pump.
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Examine Addition Properties
In this addition properties worksheet, students complete problems involving the commutative, associative, and identity properties. Students complete 5 problems.
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Addition Properties
In this addition properties worksheet, students use addition properties to answer the six word problems about the national parks of the United States.
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Magic Squares
In this magic squares worksheet, students practice their addition skills as they solve four 3x3 magic square puzzles by identifying the common sums.
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What is the Smallest Number of Pourings Needed?
In this word problem worksheet, students solve the problem of how to give two students two quarts of milk each with an empty five-quart pail and an empty four-quart pail. The students are provided with two ten-quart cans full of...
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Math Club #2b: Training for the Math Olympics
In this Math Olympics instructional activity, 7th graders work in groups to solve 2 math puzzles requiring logic and problem solving skills.
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Multiplication Algorithm (1)
Third graders in a 3rd grade math class make connections from prior instruction and mastery to solve problems in new learning situations. Using logical thinking and prior knowledge to solve current math problems is the focus of this...
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Are You Absolutely Sure of the Value?
Seventh graders develop an examineing of absolute value through real world situations. They develop an examineing of when absolute value can be used in a given situation.
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Using Representations to Model Problems
student make predictions or draw conclusions based on physical and visual representations of profit and sales. They model problems with physical materials and visual representations, and use models, graphs and tables to draw conclusions...
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It Counts
Young scholars understand and reinforce how numbers are assigned to objects, as well as think about more, less, or equal values. In this lesson, students are asked to describe, compare, and classify plants. They should be able to use...
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Odd Is In
Pupils play a game with coins and then use reasoning skills to develop a strategy for winning the game.
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Growing Up
Learners solve a given problem and explain their thinking using two number sentences to match their answer. One number sentence must use addition, one must use multiplication, and students must explain their answers. Includes sample...
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Shaking Hands
Students use diagrams or lists to show relationships. They also identify the pattern of triangular numbers. The mathematics behind situations provide a way of problem solving to examine the answers.
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Body Changes in Space
Students explain the cause of and effects of fluid shift in a microgravity
environment. Students identify the effects of microgravity during long duration space flight. Students describe research on cardiovascular effects in microgravity...
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Still More Lollies
Fourth graders listen to the problem to the class and think about how they solve the problem and to discuss it with their friends using number sentences in their written record of the solution.