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Finding our way
Tenth graders investigate the use of a GPS. In this math lesson, the students will use a GPS type system to determine positioning in two dimensions. They will complete questions out of a student workbook.
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Grab Bags
Eighth graders graph two inequalities with a single variable. They include drawing the intersection or union of inequalities on a number line. Students solve the linear equations using properties of equality and inequality. The lesson...
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Tall Towers
Linear measurement is the focus of this math lesson. Youngsters work in groups to build towers with blocks. They build towers represented on index cards and determine how many blocks taller one tower is.
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Count the Differences
Pupils find the difference between consecutive y-values on the calculator and write an equation that fits the data. They continue finding the differences in consecutive y-values using lists on their calculator. Learners...
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Measure Up!
Discover ways to measure items without standard tools. In this measurements instructional activity, learners estimate how long certain objects are by measuring with a non-standard measuring tool. Students check their estimates with a...
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How Alike Are We?
Fourth graders find the range, mode, median, and mean for each of the data sets (height and shoe size). They discuss which measure of central tendency for each data set best represents the class and why. Students graph the shoe size and...
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Buying Your First New Car!
Learners explore exponential growth and decay using M&M’s in this Algebra II/Pre-calculus instructional activity. They investigate the cost of a new car by calculating depreciation and payments.
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Show Me the Money
Pupils investigate financial applications of mathematics in this mathematics instructional activity. They will investigate equations that represent a company’s income, expense, and profit functions and use those equations to identify...
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Slope Calculation
Students compute the slope of a line based on the coordinates of two points on the line. In addition, they examine the relationship between the numerical value of slope and its properties on a graph.
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Where Should You Turn?
Fourth graders complete activities to study decimal numbers. In this decimal numbers lesson, 4th graders study decimal numbers to express numbers less than one and intervals. Students complete map and location activities to study the...
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Expanding Journal Writing Entries For Beginning Writers
First graders through a variety of strategies assess how to write in journals openly and effectively. Those strategies include integration of technology, story telling, group and team work, performance-based assessment/rubrics, visual...
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Maglev Trains
Students explore how Maglev trains work. In this technology instructional activity, students discuss the pros and cons of Maglev compared to conventional trains. They build a simple Maglev train model.
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Conjectures and Conclusions
Students draw conclusions and make conjectures given a specific scenario. In this geometry lesson, students model real life scenarios using properties of triangles. They model number facts and explain why the outcome is what it is.
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MEANINGFUL METRICS with DRAMATIC DEMONSTRATIONS
Tenth graders study the metric system. In this metric lesson students complete a lab activity and several metric worksheets.
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Lights on the International Space Station
Groups explore illumination with NASA's Lighting Environment Test Facility (LETF) as a context. Using the TI-Nspire app, groups determine the lux equation that models their simulation. They then use the lux equation to...
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Mr. Payne Word Search Puzzle
In this language arts instructional activity, students study 10 words in a word bank, then locate them in a word search puzzle. The words appear to be related to algebra; the meaning of the title is not known. There is one misspelled...
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Optimization For Breakfast
Students identify he proportion of a cereal box. For this algebra lesson, students define the relationship between patterns, functions and relations. They model their understanding using the cereal box.
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Structural Changes in a Protein
Students observe and manipulate the structure of a protein. They form an alpha helix, a beta sheet, and add disulfide bonds. They create a multimeric protein and compare their location with other students.
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Alike and Different
Students compare and contrast objects and are introduced to a Venn Diagram. In this alike and different lesson plan, students make observations regarding properties of objects. Students classify object and build ideas about variables....
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Square Milk Bottle Crates
Pupils attempt a problem that Students has the potential to have more than one solution. Hence the problem is accessible to a wide range of pupils. The problem is essentially about finding patterns and this is typical of a number of such...
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Weighing Time
Students devise a strategy to solve problems that is done in a systematic and mathematical fashion. The finding of the unknown value is the focus of the instructional activity. To solve linear equations proficiently is the skill of the...
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The Old Chicken Run Problem
Sixth graders apply problem solving strategies to work with a real life situation in which they need to determine the area. They determine the area of chicken runs that are rectangular in shape when give a partial perimeter.
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Polygonal Strings
Sixth graders apply knowledge of how to calculate the area and perimeter of triangles. They determine why it is inappropriate to measure the area of land by its perimeter which is done in certain areas of New Guinea. They complete a...
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Quadratic (2009)
Functions require an input in order to get an output, which explains why the answer always has at least two parts. After only three multi-part questions, the teacher can analyze pupils' strengths and weaknesses when it comes to...