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Illustrative Mathematics

Kimi and Jordan

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Kimi and Jordan have taken summer jobs to supplement their weekly allowances. Kimi earns more per hour than Jordan, but Jordan's weekly allowance is greater. This activity asks students to determine how the incomes of the two workers...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Exponentials and Logarithms II

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Learners are given a logarithmic function and its inverse exponential function. The task, which is to graph both compositions of the two functions, uses the inverse nature of exponents and logarithms to generalize about the properties of...
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Curated OER

Foxes and Rabbits 2

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Explore the relationship between the population of foxes and rabbits in a national park using trigonometric models. Plot data and find the appropriate trigonometric functions. Two questions require interpretation and explanation of...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Average Cost

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
Here is an activity that presents a good example of a function modeling a relationship between two quantities. John is making DVDs of his friend's favorite shows and needs to know how much to charge his friend to cover the cost of making...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Boxes and Cartons of Pencils

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Boxes and cartons of pencils are a natural, real-world example for understanding bundles of ten and their relationship to a hundred. When you have many cartons, you can discuss place value, and how to represent multiple hundreds.  
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Polar Trec

Temperature Profile above the South Pole

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Collecting and understanding data is a big part of understanding the world and how it changes. To better grasp what temperatures are changing and how they affect global populations, learners create a graph based on the date provided....
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Curated OER

Measure the Gardens

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Understanding arrays is very similar to understanding the relationship between multiplication and area. Give your third graders an opportunity to practice identifying area models that relate repeated addition and multiplication. They...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Fractions on the Number Line

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Fractions are a common fear in school, but visualizing them on a number line can help your learners understand their relationship to one another. The activity provides two solutions; use either a number line or a common denominator....
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Illustrative Mathematics

Reasoning about Multiplication and Division and Place Value, Part 1

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Help your class make sense of quantities and their relationships. Given is the product of two numbers. It is up to your number crunchers to think about the quantitative relationship when the product is one-tenth or ten times the product...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Voting for Three, Variation 2

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Here is another opportunity for math learners to apply reasoning to solve real-world problems with ratios. The ratio of the number of votes for two candidates is provided. Your class is asked to use this ratio and information given about...
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Illustrative Mathematics

How Many Marbles?

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Don't lose your marbles! This simple story problem helps make teaching division with fractions much easier. Work on this problem along with the lesson titled, How Many Servings of Oatmeal? to highlight the difference between...
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Curated OER

Illusions of Depth

For Teachers K - 5th
Learning to create depth when painting or drawing takes skill and the ability to understand how things should be placed on the canvas. The class will use the Charles Deas painting Long Jakes to learn about composition, sharing...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Ice Cream

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Algebra learners can always relate to ice cream. In this case, a carton of ice cream has been at room temperature for t minutes. Given an expression for the temperature of the ice cream, it is up to your number crunchers to...
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Curated OER

Rounding and Subtracting

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Common Core is all about getting your learners to open their minds and think about the why and how. This problem has them thinking about unknown numbers and their relationship with one another when we round and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Longer and Heavier? Shorter and Heavier?

For Teachers K Standards
For many young children it seems obvious that longer objects are heavier than shorter objects. This assumption is put to the test as the class investigates the relationship between length and weight in a whole-group activity. Using a...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Making a Clock

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Have a fun time teaching children to read analog clocks with this whole-group math activity. Using large sets of the numerals 1-12 and 0, 5, 10...55, the teacher creates a large clock on either the carpet or the white board, explaining...
Printables
Blogger

How Can I Help My Child Succeed in School?

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Engage parents in extending their child's education beyond the classroom with this simple handout. Offering seven suggestions for ways parents can support the success of their children, this is an excellent resource for establishing...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Government Spending and Taxes

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
What types of government programs are designed to improve economic inequity in the United States? Introduce your learners to government programs, such as low-income housing, Social Security, and Medicaid, how they work to improve...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Introduction to Logarithms

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Build on pupils' understanding of inverse functions by connecting logarithmic functions to exponential functions. This activity allows individuals to see graphically the inverse relationship between an exponential and logarithmic...
Worksheet
Barton Math Class

Parallel and Perpendicular Lines Worksheet

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
With the focus being on parallel, perpendicular, or neither type, practice with three different types of problem solving. Learners start with a simple skill of determining the relationship between slopes and then work towards creating...
Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Trigonometric Ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Take an alternative route with trigonometry and let learners connect a tweaked version of the pythagorean theorem to the original in terms of triangle sides. The assignment leads participants towards deriving the Pythagorean identity...
PPT
Bowels Physics

Work, Energy, and Power

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Work, energy, and their relationship to power: what is the common thread? Explore this with your class as they learn the concepts of work and energy, both kinetic and potential, before completing multiple practice problems to...
Assessment
Mathematics Assessment Project

Bird’s Eggs

For Students 8th Standards
Are the length and width of birds' eggs related? Young ornathologists use a scatter plot to investigate the relationship between the length and width of eggs for Mallard ducks. They then determine the egg with the greatest...
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Education Development Center

Area Model Factoring

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
 Introduce learners to what factoring represents and it's relationship to a square with a resource about factoring and the method of area models. The questions are scaffolded to begin with introductory questions and eventually have...

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