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Translate a Story Problem: Using Equations with Square Roots
In this translating a story problem worksheet, students work one word problem. As students translate the problem into math symbols and drawings, they can drag their mouse over the story. The steps to setting up the problem are...
EngageNY
Translating Graphs of Functions
If you know one, you know them all! Parent functions all handle translations the same. This lesson examines the quadratic, absolute value, and square root functions. Pupils discover the similarities in the behavior of the graphs when...
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Place Value and Expanded Form
Numbers can take many forms. Learners practice translating one form to another in this place-value worksheet. They start with a word-form number and choose which of six three-digit numbers is less than (the worksheet uses the term below,...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DNA Words Are Three Letters Long
DNA writes 64 different words but only codes for 20 different amino acids. Budding scientists learn about where each of these numbers come from and why they aren't equal with an online interactive. The resource explains the research, the...
DK Publishing
Real-Life Problems: Distance, Length, and More
Math just got real! Scholars solve seven word problems dealing with life applications for multiplication, division, and subtraction. They show their work in a designated space, and must include units in their answers. Learners will work...
Illustrative Mathematics
Extensions, Bisections and Dissections in a Rectangle
Gaining practice in translating a verbal description into a diagram and then an equation is the real point of this similar triangles exercise. Once the diagram is drawn, multiple methods are provided to reach the conclusion. An effective...
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Translating between words and math - quiz
For this math words worksheet, students solve problems that deal with word phrases, word problems, and expressions of numbers. Students complete 10 multiple choice problems.
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Problem Solving Model
Use a vocabulary chart to introduce math functions. The class defines a list of mathematical vocabulary terms on a worksheet, as well as completes equations and expressions. They examine word problems and practice transcribing them into...
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Translate Word Phrases and Sentences into Equations
Use this video to show your learners an example of how to translate word phrases into an equation to solve a real-world problem. The presenter begins with a review of how to use cross products to solve a proportion, including how to do...
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Probability- Two Events
In this statistics worksheet, students examine different events after translating the word problems into equations and choose which event is most likely to occur. There are 14 questions with an answer key.
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Chapter 11 Objective 5.1 Exercises
In this translating worksheet, students read word sentences, translate them to number sentences and solve the equation. This one-page worksheet contains ten problems.
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Translating Teacher Talk
Interpreting the world of teacher vernacular to improve communication.
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Translating Between Verbal and Algebraic Expressions
Students translate between verbal and algebraic expressions. After folding paper into four sections (multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction), students list code words under the appropriate section title. Next, they...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Chief Executives Compared: The Federalist Papers
Delve into the responsibilities of the president by looking at President Hamilton's opinion of the presidential office in his own words. The second in a three-part series, the resource also offers an interesting compare-and-contrast...
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Translating Sentences to Equations
In this translating worksheet, students translate word phrases to algebraic equations and then solve the equation. This one-page worksheet contains ten problems. Answers are provided on the page.
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Translating Word Phrases into Algebraic Expressions
Students view a PowerPoint and practice writing algebraic expressions from word phrases. In this algebra lesson, students utilize phrases such as, "plus, minus, sum, difference, increased by and subtracted from." There are 5 problems on...
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Solve Calculations Written in Words
In this math words worksheet, students solve 16 problems in which math sentences in words are translated into numbers and operations. Students solve the mixed operations number sentences.
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Word Problems
In this algebra activity, 9th graders rewrite word problems into algebraic sentences. They define sum, difference, quotient and factors. There are 5 word problems with an answer key.
K12 Reader
Robert Burns’ Poetry: A Red, Red Rose
Regional dialect can make a lovely poem even more beautiful. After translating the Scots words in "A Red, Red Rose" into modern English, class members identify the two similes Robert Burns uses in his poem.
BBC
Walking with Dinosaurs
Breath new life into your class's study of dinosaurs with this extensive collection of materials. Offering everything from a printable T-rex mask, word searches, and connect-the-dots activities to informational handouts, hands-on...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Solving Inequalities
What does translating points on a number line have to do with solving inequalities? Young mathematicians first learn about translations of points on a number line, and then use this information to solve linear inequalities in one variable.
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Discovering Swahili
Learners investigate the African language of Swahili by translating vocabulary words. In this foreign language instructional activity, students write 26 English words that define Africa and utilize the Internet to translate them into...
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Using Personal Pronouns Correctly
Complete personal pronoun practice activities. Pupils use correct personal pronoun form in sentences the teacher writes on the board. They review the function of a pronoun and the various cases and practice placing personal pronouns by...
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Translating Word Expressions to Algebraic Expressions
In this translating worksheet, students read a word sentence, and then translate it to an algebraic equation. Fifteen problems are provided on this one-page worksheet. Answers are provided on the right-side of the page.