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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the lives and careers of women who have made historic and contemporary contributions to the fields of mathematics and computer science. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate how mathematicians describe rotational symmetry and cyclic symmetry. They decide what changes and what does not when a figure is rotated. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students explore the mathematician Fibonacci and his sequence of numbers. This special sequence of numbers are found in vegetables, fruits, plants, pine cones, pine needles, pineapples, Pascal's tri-angle, and much more. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students study how to find prime numbers. They investigate the teachings of the mathematician Eratosthenes and apply his theory of prime numbers less than 100. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students study about mathematicians' notion of fairness in games of chance. They work in pairs to perform three different experiments using macaroni and paper bags. They record their results on charts and discuss the fairness of the games. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students examine mathematicians' notion of fairness in games of chance. They work in pairs to perform three different experiments using macaroni and paper bags. They record their results on charts and compare their data. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students incorporate data learned about Mexico into this quest for the identity of a specific group of people from the country. Clues are provided which support data previously mastered. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students solve problems by choosing strategies, explaining their reasoning, making calculations, and checking results. They are told that mathematicians as far back as 2000 B.C.E. have studied the relationships between sides and angles of right triangles. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Sudents solve problems by choosing strategies, explaining their reasoning, making calculations, and checking results. They are told that they are going to discover patterns that can be used to simplify expressions containing exponents. Students are explained that, in math, we frequently use laws found by other mathematicians to shorten the time it takes to solve problems. They are given examples such as the Pythagorean Theorem or the Quadratic Formula. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students compete in a Money Math Olympics. Students work in teams to compete for speed and accuracy working math problems. Students keep track, in their math journals, of the number of problems solved accurately. Teams with the 3 highest scores win Money Math Olympic medals. Full Review »
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