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Animated Project for Curriculum Areas

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners use an animation program plan and create a short animation movie showing what they have learned in math or any other curriculum area.
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Optical Illusion

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students practice creating optical illusions as well as discerning how perception of information may change its characteristics. They distinguish between an equilateral triangle, endpoints, vertices's, and segments of triangles. The...
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The Ancient Maya

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the culture of the Mayans through a variety of activities. In this lesson about Maya, students analyze pictures in books and on websites, produce scale models of Maya architecture, and create Maya mosaics. Students study...
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Indirect Measurement with Similar Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use similar triangles to find missing heights.  In this using similar triangles to find missing heights lesson, students use proportions to find the heights of missing side lengths.  Young scholars find the...
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Calculus Games

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus learning exercise, students rewrite a word problem using algebraic symbols and calculate the derivative of a function to find the correct solution. There are 20 matching questions with an answer key.
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The Comet Encke Tail Disruption Event

For Students 9th - 12th
In this comet tail disruption instructional activity, learners solve 7 problems using two images from NASA's STEREO satellite showing the breakup of the comet's tail. Students analyze the diagram and use the scale to solve the problems...
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Sudoku Puzzle with Limits

For Students 11th - 12th
In this limit problems instructional activity, learners solve 28 limits problems.  Students find the limits of various functions as x approaches a certain number.  Learners solve a sudoku puzzle with their answers.
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Sudoku Puzzle with Derivatives

For Students 10th - 12th
In this Sudoku puzzle learning exercise, students use basic derivative formulas, the chain rule and implicit differentiation to solve given problems.  This six-page learning exercise contains 26 problems. Answers are provided on the...
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Rubrics Realized

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a template document that contains a 6-column/6-row rubric structure. They modify their template to include scoring categories or criteria, and scoring characteristics for a specific assignment.
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Earth's Warming Climate: Are We Responsible

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine the atmospheric data for CO2. In this web-based atmospheric lesson, student follow instructions to examine and plot on-line scientific data about the CO2 levels in our atmosphere and analyze the changes found in...
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Linear Inequalities

For Students 9th - 11th
In this linear inequalities worksheet, students solve and graph systems of inequalities on a coordinate plane. Examples and explanations are provided. This five-page worksheet contains 32 problems. Answers are provided at the end of...
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Rotation Velocity of a Galaxy

For Students 9th - 11th
In this orbit of stars in galaxies worksheet, students are given an equation that models the orbital speeds of stars as they relate to their distance from the nucleus of a galaxy. Students solve 5 problems using this equation and...
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Sudoku Puzzle: Logs and Exponentials

For Students 11th - 12th
In this logarithms and exponential worksheet, students solve 29 multiple choice problems.  Students use their answers to solve a sudoku puzzle.
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Trigonometry

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
This unit covers the basic trigonometry including understanding radians, how to convert between radians and degrees, the area of a circle subtended by an angle, basic properties and graphs of sine, cosine, tangent, and solving...
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The Radian Walk

For Students 10th - 12th
Students play a game to learn angle measures in radians. In this precalculus/trigonometry activity, students play a game similar to a cake walk. When the music stops, which ever student is selected, names his/her coordinates and place on...
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Fermi Observatory Measures the Lumps in Space

For Students 9th - 11th
In this gamma-ray worksheet, students read about the Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory and how it measures the invisible lumps in space. Students solve 3 problems using an equation to determine the time that gamma-rays travel in space and the...
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Finding Areas of Triangles, Rectangles, and Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students find the areas of geometric shapes. In this geometry instructional activity students find and measure the sides, perimeters, and areas of quadrilaterals, triangles, and circles. Students relate the measures to the others by...
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Create Your Geometry Crossword

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars learn how to identify cell addresses, format cell contents, add pop-up comments to a cell, and also apply conditional formatting. They use clues and words to make a geometry crossword puzzle pertaining to geometrical shapes.
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Can You Carry a Tune in a Bucket?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use water filled pipes to play a tune and consider the mathematics behind the sound waves. In this sound wave lesson, students play a tune with water filled pipes. They create a mathematical model to evaluate the wavelengths and...
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Five Senses: Brave Little Monster

For Teachers K
Students identify which of the five senses is being used at a given time. They read "Brave Little Monster" by Ken Baker and then read the story again as they match student-made cards depicting the five senses to moments in the story.
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Math: Congruent and Similar Figures

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use geo-boards to create similar and congruent figures and find their corresponding sides. Using the geo-board paper, they draw the shapes they create on the geo-boards. With partners,students create similar and congruent...
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Math Assessment - Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students recall number words in sequence and correctly associate them with a specific set of objects (rational counting). They play a game such as Race to Twenty.
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Matching Numbers to Words

For Students K
Students explore a math concept. In this math lesson, students practice matching a number with its corresponding word. Students can work independently or with teacher help.
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Mathematical Analysis of Temperature Scales

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students use the point-slope formula to determine the relationship between the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales of temperature. They use a graphing calculator to determine the slope of the line between two points in each scale.