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Curated OER

Using the Newspaper to Teach Division and Time Conversion

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use classified ads to select a career. In this math lesson, students convert the listed salary to an hourly, yearly, weekly and monthly rate. Students explain the process they used to find the various rates.
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Curated OER

The shop is important

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars consider where food comes from and how it gets to them. They identify where shops are found and visit one to investigate how it operates.
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Curated OER

Whipping up Willows

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars use the information they were able to discover from elders and community members as a basis for their study of ows. This lesson leads to a time of sharing with the elders and community members who provided information to...
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Curated OER

Decomposers at Work!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students design and conduct investigations that illustrate the process of decomposition. After a lecture/demo, students simulate the process of soil composting in the classroom. They closely chart the decomposition of their soil.
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Curated OER

Irregular Fractals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils study and research irregular fractals and construct a few based on their research. Students practice pattern recognition skills and plane geometry skills calculating dimensions on the Fractured Pictures activity.
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Curated OER

Straws and Shapes

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students investigate the concepts related to observing two dimensional objects. They also build three dimensional objects using the two dimensional objects. The students give an oral or written explanation for how the pieces fit together...
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Curated OER

Geometry /Tessellations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the concept of tessellations and how they are formed using angles. They categorize how different patterns do and not tessellate and separate them into two different places for assessment. The teacher draws examples...
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Curated OER

Acid Precipitation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students test the acidity of unknown solutions. They use this information to make inferences from data given from recorded rainfall records to identify areas that receive the most acid rain.
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Other

University of Chicago: Everyday Mathematics: Glossary

For Students 4th - 6th
A 60-page illustrated glossary of math terms for Grades 4-6.
Handout
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Inter Math: Interior Angle

For Students 6th - 8th
This site gives a decription of interior angles along with a visual representation. Be sure to use the links to related terms, everyday examples, challenging problems, more information, and the interactive check point involving interior...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Quilting With My Pal, Pythagoras!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit lesson, middle schoolers will learn about the Pythagorean Theorem and how it is evident in our everyday world. Students will apply the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem to the squares of a quilt. Each quilt square will be...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Positively f.u.n. !

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will actively engage students to identify and add positive and negative integers. In cooperative groups, students will discuss everyday vocabulary that will activate students' existing background knowledge and set the purpose...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Egyptian Numerals

For Students 3rd - 8th
Practice changing Egyptian numerals into our everyday numbers we use and vice versa. Three hints are available. This game is set up with a game show format. See how high you can climb on the money chart!
Website
Math TV

Weekly Math Tv Problem Solving Videos

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource offers two different topic problems per week for students to solve. A video showing the method to solve each problem is given. After viewing a solution method for solving the problem try one on your own where you can only...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Finding Patterns to Make Predictions

For Students 6th - 8th
Make predictions then explore the patterns found in everyday objects like stairs. This interactive exercise focuses on developing an equation to represent a mathematical rule and working with virtual manipulatives to visualize a concept,...

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