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How Fast Is Your Car?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discover the relationship between speed, distance, and time. They calculate speed and represent their data graphically. They, in groups, design a ramp for their matchbox car. The goal is to see who's ramp produces the...
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Speedy Trials

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate how forces affect the motion of an object. In this physics lesson, 5th graders calculate an object's speed using a mathematical formula. They discuss how force and mass affects the speed.
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Complex Area Problems

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students calculate the area of different polygons. In this geometry lesson, students find the area of complex polygons. They solve word problems using rates and distances.
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Exploring Transformations: Translations and Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners perform translation and reflection. They identify the coordinate points of the new graph and create a formula for the movement. They identify the pre-image the and after image.
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Treasure Beneath the Sea

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the geometry of treasure hunting! Learners use geometry to design a treasure recovery strategy. The objective is to create a design that minimizes the amount of work required. Budding mathematicians use properties of triangles as...
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Animating Motion

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students apply what they recall about objects in motion by animati ng sequences of pictures that model a set of physical conditions. They animate the orbital motions of the Earth, the space shuttle, and the Moon based on calculations of...
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Probability

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore probability.  In this probability instructional activity, students define theoretical probability and experimental probability.  Students predict outcomes of hands on activities using coins and colored tiles, complete a...
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Area & Perimeter

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students define area and perimeter. They demonstrate understanding of the concepts concretely, with manipulatives, and describe with words, their strategies and thought processes.
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Faster speed-Shorter Time

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars calculate the inverse variation, and speed given the formulas. In this algebra lesson, students investigate properties of conics, focusing on the hyperbola. They identify the distance between the directrix and other parts...
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Velocity vs. Time

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders read and interpret v-t graphs. After studying velocity and time, 12th graders read graphs to calculate the acceleration of a moving body and determine the distance and displacement of a body. Students explore the...
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Pi

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders read the book "Sir Cumference and Knights of the Round Table" to introduce them to the concept of Pi. As a class, they discover where Pi originated and define the terms circumference, radius and diameter. To end the...
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Trigonometric Ratios

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students measure and analyze angles. For this trigonometry lesson, students measure angles and distances use non-traditional techniques. They identify the different ratios of sine, cosine and tangent.
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Exploring Volume of Cylinders

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders investigate the volume of a cylinder.  In this geometry lesson plan, 10th graders create three-dimensional cylinders and use a ruler to determine the dimensions.  The lesson plan progresses to the use of the formula to find...
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Work

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders determine when work is being done on an object. They define work and calculate work for several examples. They define and give examples of force and distance and define power and calculate power. They determine the...
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Pitching Cards

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners measure distances using different units. In this geometry lesson, students use the correct formula to calculate the distance between objects. They convert between traditional and non traditional ways to measure distance.
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What Goes Around

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the relationships between the area and perimeters of squares and rectangles. They calculate the perimeter of rectangles and squares using a formula. Students investigate the relationship between the perimeter...
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Light Beam

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students measure and convert between units. For this geometry lesson, students investigate through measurements of distances. They relate the properties of circle to solving problems with radius, diameter and area.
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Forces in a Climb

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a NASA website to use a given formula to find acceleration and distance after a specific time and how it relates to engine propulsion.
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Circle Relationships

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore circles.  In this geometry lesson plan, students explore the relationship between the circumference of a circle, the distance a ball travels, and the number of rotations the ball must make in order to travel a certain...
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Juggling Slopes

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students identify the slope of a line. In this algebra activity, students label slopes as positive, negative, zero or undefined. They use the slope formula to find the slope algebraically and graphically.
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Speedy Area

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students calculate the speed, rate and distance. In this geometry lesson, students calculate the area and perimeter of polygons. They perform an activity with a CEENBoT and calculate the distance and speed.
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Robot Area

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students calculate the area of different polygons. In this geometry instructional activity, students explore polygons based in their shape and number of sides. They find the formula for the area and use each specific formula for each shape.
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Hexagon Island

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify different polygons. In this geometry lesson plan, students name polygons using the number of sides. They calculate distance and slopes using the correct formula.
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Balsa Wood Airplane Flight and Speed Correlation

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders calculate the average speed of their balsa wood airplane. In this physics lesson, 9th graders build their own airplane and make necessary modifications to to make it fly straight. They interpret distance and time graph...

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