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Poverty & Disease: What is the Link?
Students consider how to reduce poverty and fight disease around the world. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, students participate in activities regarding global poverty, fighting disease, and connections between poverty and disease.
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The Golden Students
Scholars view the video, "Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land," and discuss examples in nature which have proportions of the golden ratio. They measure and record different body lengths from a worksheet and convert the ratios to equivalent...
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60-30-10
Students use ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships as they investigate the concept of how percentages are used by designers. Students decorate the same room using three different percentages of colors.
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Family Letter - Order of Operations and Sequences
In this order of operations and sequences worksheet, middle schoolers solve 16 short answer problems. Students create an arithmetic sequence by adding seven to a number. Middle schoolers perform operations on numbers in various order to...
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What Are the Odds?
Middle schoolers identify and interpret various ways of expressing probability as a decimal, fraction, percent, or ratio. They solve problems based on probability as they apply to real world applications.
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Laws of Exponents and Polynomials
In these laws of exponents and polynomials worksheets, students answer 40 multiple choice questions that cover using laws of exponents, polynomial operations, and area polynomial word problems.
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The Numbers Behind Hunger #1
Students investigate world hunger. In this global issues lesson, students research world hunger issues using the World Food Program website. Students analyze statistics and consider how to address word hunger issues.
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Properties of Fractals
Learners build a working definition of a regular fractal, they measure the concepts of dimensions and scale, they explore the concept of a logarithm and they attempt to solve simple exponential equations for the exponent both by trial...