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Complete or Incomplete? That is the Question!
Students work in small groups to determine factors that contribute to a well-done assignment. They report their findings to the rest of the class.
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Factoring
In this factoring worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 12 different problems. First, they factor each polynomial completely, writing their parentheses first. Then, students write prime next to each polynomial that cannot be factored.
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Multiples of numbers
In this multiples of numbers worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about multiples of numbers and factors. Students complete 10 questions.
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We’ve Bean Growing: Anatomy of Germination
Students identify the main parts of a seed. In this biology lesson, students explain the factors needed for the seed to grow. They record observations everyday and report findings to class.
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Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions
In this algebra learning exercise, students solve rational expression with multiplication and division. They factor and simplify. There are 6 questions with an answer key.
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Soil and its Importance
It's difficult to guess the original goal of this presentation. It examines four factors to be evaluated, but their direct connection is unclear. Soil texture is described in three slides. The depth of material is examined in two slides....
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Application Problems with Fractions
In this math worksheet, learners compare fractions from a chart. They simplify six fractions. Students tell the fraction of a day they spend doing various activities. Each fraction is simplified. Three problems are multiple choice problems.
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Pumpkin Talk
A pumpkin and a candle are all you need to help teach your students about what keep a flame going, and what factors lead to its going out. A lot of rich discussion should result from this fun activity. A great addition to a science...
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Divisibility
In this divisibility learning exercise, students read divisibility rules and then check the boxes in the chart if the 3 digit number can be divided by numbers 2 through 10. Students do this for 5, 3 digit numbers.
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Addictive Risk
In this health learning exercise, learners assess their addictive risk for drugs. They read the two primary factors to addiction and highlight the characteristics that increase and decrease addiction when answering 4 questions.
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Coming to America: Opportunities, Risks, Consequences
Learners examine the immigrants of various cultures throughout the world. In groups, they identify the push and pull factors of those immigrating and the risks and consequences they are subject do when going through the immigration...
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Endangered Species
Young scholars define the terms endangered and threatened. They identify the factors that can cause species to become endangered. They discover how animals are protected by the Endangered Species Act.
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Quadratic Equations-Factoring
In this quadratic equation activity, students factor to solve a set of 10 problems. Answers are included on page 2; a reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Prime Factorization
In this math worksheet, students find the solutions to the whole numbers through finding the prime factorization. This could be done using number trees.
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Prime and Composite Number Mini Lab
Elementary schoolers determine the attributes of prime and composite numbers. Pupils, working in pairs, participate in an activity in which they use manipulatives to show the rectangles that can be made from square tiles. They practice...
Virginia Department of Education
Dilation
Open up your pupils' eyes and minds on dilations. Scholars perform dilations on a trapezoid on the coordinate plane. They compare the image to the preimage and develop generalizations about dilations.
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Multiplication & Division
Helpful for building a multiplication unit that focuses on different strategies. With explanations about repeated addition and subtraction as foundations for multiplication, scaling, summaries of progression, and basic multiplication and...
Chicago Botanic Garden
Nature Walk and Ecosystem Introduction
A food web has no organism higher than a tertiary consumer because there wouldn't be enough energy left to sustain them. The fourth installment in a seven-part series begins with a nature walk to get pupils thinking about their...
Student Handouts
What's My GPA?
Here is an excellent, detailed one-page reference sheet to introduce students to what a grade point average (GPA) is and how to calculate their own.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Multiplication Chart
This is not your run-of-the-mill multiplication chart. Going beyond the standard 12 x 12 limit, this resource includes multiplication facts up through 12 x 20, making it great for supporting children as they continue working toward being...
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An Appearance of Complex Numbers 2
Help the class visualize operations with complex numbers with a lesson that formally introduces complex numbers and reviews the visualization of complex numbers on the complex plane. The fifth installment of a 32-part series reviews the...
Education Development Center
Area and Multiplication
Take some intellectual fun and apply it to the concept of multiplying expressions together. A guide models how to break two numbers into an area model to multiply together in pieces similar to FOILing. The rest of the puzzles consist of...
Nuffield Foundation
Enzyme-Catalysed Synthesis
Enzymes: not just for breaking chemicals apart. Young biologists perform an experiment on potatoes. They first remove starch from potato extract. They then add the resulting liquid to samples of glucose-1-phosphate, glucose, maltose, and...
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Dividing by (x – a) and (x + a)
Patterns in math emerge from seemingly random places. Learners explore the patterns for factoring the sum and differences of perfect roots. Analyzing these patterns helps young mathematicians develop the polynomial identities.