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- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students explain the differences between linear (arithmetic) and exponential (geometric) growth. They use worksheets imbedded in this lesson to help them make predicitions and graph data points. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students find common denominators and add fractions with different denominators correctly. They demonstrate understanding of the meaning of denominator, fractions, and common denominator through pictures or a written exercise. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 9th
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Students use cups of bright candies to model population decay, and growth. They complete a worksheet and participate in a discussion relating their findings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students use candy bars, beef jerky, and brownies to represent different fractions. Students also use colored multi-link cubes or blocks to illustrate the same representations of fractions. Students work with a partned to create diagrams and complete the included worksheets on fractions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students create a $100,000 stock portfolio by selecting stocks from a list of one hundred companies. They complete sell/buy orders, track their portfolio values through Yahoo Finance over an eight-week period, conduct Internet research on a company, and develop a Portfolio worksheet using Microsoft Excel. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students use codes to solve pre-algebra math problems that demonstrate number sense and reverse operations. They discuss examples of each type of problem, and complete a worksheet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students explore equality and inequality by participating in a Tilt/Balance activity. The students listen to the story "Lemonade for Sale" by Stuart J. Murphy and use equations to graph lemonade sale profits. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students investigate the concept of multiplying fractions with the help of a handout and a treat of brownies. They work on a worksheet for a short while and then progress to multiplying a chain of terms. Then the teacher reviews fractions using the brownies as visual aid and a treat. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 10th
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Students graph the absolute value of compound inequalities. Through a demonstration, students discover the meaning of absolute value. They take notes, rewrite opposites, and solve for each variable. Students complete a worksheet and graph inequalities. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students review adding and subtracting of integers. The class makes a number line from -10 to 10 and practice adding and subtracting by "acting out" the math problems. Students play a card game using the number cards from a regular deck. Red are negatives, black cards are positive. Students complete an integer worksheet for homework. Full Review »

