Curriculum Corner
8th Grade Math Common Core Checklist
Ensure your eighth graders get the most out of their math education with this series of Common Core checklists. Rewriting each standard as an "I can" statement, this resource helps teachers keep a record of when each standard was...
Charleston School District
Review Unit 4: Linear Functions
It's time to show what they know! An assessment review concludes a five-part series about linear functions. It covers all concepts featured throughout the unit, including linear equations, graphs, tables, and problem solving.
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Ferris Wheels—Tracking the Height of a Passenger Car
Watch your pupils go round and round as they explore periodic behavior. Learners graph the height of a Ferris wheel over time. They repeat the process with Ferris wheels of different diameters.
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Secant and the Co-Functions
Turn your class upside down as they explore the reciprocal functions. Scholars use the unit circle to develop the definition of the secant and cosecant functions. They analyze the domain, range, and end behavior of each function.
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Art Class, Variation 1
Student statisticians calculate ratios to determine how many shades of green were mixed by Ms. Baca's art class. They graph the number of blue parts against the number of yellow parts for each combination and discover that some produce...
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Marshmallow Figures
Students enjoy making 3-D figures while learning about rectangular prisms, pyramids, vertices, edges, and faces. After a lecture/demo, students use marshmallows, toothpicks and a worksheet imbedded in this lesson plan to create 3...
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Inquiry Unit: Modeling Maximums and Minimums
Young mathematicians explore the maximun area for patio with the added complexity of finding the mimimum cost for construction. First, they maximize the area of a yard given a limited amount of fence and plot width v. area on a...
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Can You Resist This?
Some things are hard to resist. Small collaborative groups build circuits and calculate the voltage using Ohm's Law. Budding engineers explore the connection between the voltage across different resistors and linear...
Charleston School District
Sketching a Piecewise Function
How do you combine linear and nonlinear functions? You piece them together! The lesson begins by analyzing given linear piecewise functions and then introduces nonlinear parts. Then the process is reversed to create graphs from given...
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A Surprising Boost from Geometry
Working with imaginary numbers — this is where it gets complex! After exploring the graph of complex numbers, learners simplify them using addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
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Tangram Perimeters
Middle schoolers work together to make figures out of tangram squares. In groups, they calculate the measurements they need and apply the Pythagorean Theorem. They complete a worksheet solving equations using the theorem and review their...
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2-D Geometry
Third graders describe and compare attributes of two-dimensional shapes. They explain geometric terms, angles and shapes. Students demonstrate each vocabulary word with their body and they mirror the body positions associated with each...
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Calculating Distances in Two and Three Dimensions
Students use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems. In this geometry instructional activity, students solve for the distances by calculating the different parts of the shape of a two and three dimensional shape. They reason by analogy.
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Gridding a Site
Students establish a grid system over an archaelogical site. They label each grid unit. They determine the location of artifacts within each grid unit. They construct a scientific inquiry concerning the location of artifacts on the site.
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Measure Up!
Learners examine parallax and angular measurements. For this investigative lesson students calculate distances of objects and map their results.
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Chapter 6: Geometry Perimeter and Area
In this perimeter and area worksheet, students find the perimeter of various polygons. They compute the perimeter, surface area, circumference, and volume of given figures. Students explore trigonometric ratios. This...
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The Right Angle
In this geometry activity, 10th graders determine the answer to a vocabulary questions and then follow the give rules to place the answer in the appropriate place on the crossword grid. The one page activity contains 18...
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Parts of a Circle
Sixth graders use yarn, paper plate, and other materials to identify parts of a circle. In this parts of a circle lesson plan, 6th graders identify the circumference, radius, diameter, and other parts of a circle.
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Geometric Bingo
Students explore the concept of geometric shapes. In this geometric shape lesson, students play bingo to review geometric shapes. Students identify the shape being described by the teacher and put a marker on their bingo card.
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Parabolas
In this parabolas worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 15 different problems related to parabolas. First, they define parabola and its information related to graphing one. Then, students write each equation in standard form. They...
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Classifying and Constructing Corners
Fifth graders, after seeing Honeycomb examples, complete a Classifying Angles worksheet, Clock worksheet, and Defining Angles worksheet.
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Measuring Supporting Structures
Learners calculate the volume of the Pantheon's columns and estimate changes in weight given different parameters.
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Sort it Out
Pupils identify and sort a variety of two- and three-dimensional objects and compare and contrast their attributes. They identify shapes, locate shapes on the faces of solids, sort real objects and explain the sorting rule, and describe...
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Incomplete Plans
Students practice constructing a building utilizing snap cubes and an incomplete building plan and draw the missing view. They identify and compare relationships in two and three-dimensional representations/objects. Each student explains...