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Right Triangles

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners classify triangles and make connections regarding angle measurements and attributes of acute, right, and obtuse triangles. They listen to teacher define and explain triangles. Everyone imagines a place where a broken wing for a...
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Show Me the Way To Go Home

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students place a pencil perpendicular to the ground and trace its shadow between 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM. They measure the length of the shadow, periodically over several hours, in either English or Metric units. Using the data, they find...
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Everybody Needs a Rock

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Here is a lesson that rocks! Young scientists choose a rock and list words that describe it. They estimate the mass of their rocks and rank them within a group. They measure their rocks for volume and write a story that somehow includes...
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Heart Smart in a Heart Beat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
As an introductory activity, young statisticians measure their heart rate at rest and after exercise and compute the mean and median, and create a box & whisker plot.  This is followed by watching a video (that no longer seems...
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Statistics for Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use the Internet to access a variety of websites that present statistics and information for use in graphing. They represent sports statistics, geographical measurements, temperatures and more.
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The Statistics of Shoes

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students open a blank spreadsheet and format it for a class survey about the number of shoes owned by the men and women in the class. They enter the data before finding the mean, median, mode, quartiles, variance, and the standard...
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Buffon's Needle An Analysis and Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
If you dropped a needle on a lined sheet of paper what is the probability that the needle will cross one of the lines on the page?  Surprise your class with how calculating this probability can approximate pi. This question is known...
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Customary Units of Measuring

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students practice converting the measurements into the correct values for the three charts. The students may need a separate conversion chart.
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Measuring Liquid: ml, cl, litre

For Students 6th - 10th
In this liquid measuring worksheet, students answer 18 questions about measuring liquid using ml, cl and litres. Question 3 asks students to answer questions in their "Exercise Books", which are not provided. Students can click on the...
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Basketball Measurements

For Students 7th - 8th
In this basketball court measurements worksheet, students complete16 various types of problems using the illustrated basketball court at the bottom of the sheet. They find the diameter and radius of the smaller jump circle on the court....
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Aruba Cloud Cover Measured by Satellite

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners analyze cloud cover and to compose written conclusions to a given related scenario. They submit a letter of response and a report detailing their calculations and conclusions.
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Geometry, Measurement & Reasoning

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete worksheets involving rotational symmetry. In this geometry activity, students complete worksheets to identify rotational symmetry and rotations. They compare and contrast rotated figures. Students examine the...
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Honey Bee Facts And Figures: Math Skills

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners practice their mathematics and mapping skills using examples from honey bee biology. Discuss why the colonies were found in this pattern. They examine food and water in the area, and how many humans live in the area where...
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Measurement via Triangulation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners utilize triangulation techniques to determine altitudes of objects. An altitude locator is constructed and used to determine the height of a building or a tree. Tangent tables and formulas provide the ratio for the formula to...
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Tonnage - Measurement

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore the size of one ton. They research the capacity of sialing ships and estimate the volume of rectangular prisms. Students perform activities to discover the capacity of a classroom in tons.
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Making Math Meaningful in March Madness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the statistics of March Madness, the college basketball tournament. They watch videotaped basketball games to collect data for further analysis using Word and Excel. They analyze the data in a variety of activities...
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Math Internet Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students utilize online research skills to surf the Internet and complete an online scavenger hunt to find the answers to various mathematical questions.
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A Statistical Study by Adolescent Students on Relevant Issues

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use statistics to study attributes of a local center for pregnant teenagers. They apply mean, median, mode and a correlation study between two variables.
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Math Jeopardy: Basic Skills

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students play a PowerPoint activity to be used as a review of basic skills for order of operations, and the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division for whole numbers, some fractional numbers and integers....
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TIMS, The Bouncing Ball: Math, Science, Measurement, Graphs, Variables

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Young scholars determine the exact relationship between the height from which a ball is dropped and the distance that it rebounds.
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More Jelly Bean Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use their color categorized jelly beans to find the range, mean, median and mode. They use their recorded data documenting how many jelly beans there are for each color in order to calculate the range, mean, median and mode of...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars find Fibonacci sequences. In this applied Science lesson plan, students solve Fibonacci sequence problems. Young scholars explore the mathematical patterns of objects in nature.
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Math: Football League Statistics

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine a soccer league final standings chart and then answer 12 questions based on the information provided. They calculate some answers in both fractions and percentages.
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Count on Math

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students develop number sense up to a million.  In this developing number sense up to a million activity, students count their breaths in given time span.  Students use blocks representing 10's and 100's to create a...

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