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Google

Google for Education: Correlation vs Causation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson, students will test the strength of a correlation and discern whether or not a law or conclusion can be made based on that correlation. Students will see the threshold commonly accepted for correlating data and test their...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Exploring Cavalieri's Principle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students use the geometry program GeoGebra to explore Cavalieri's Principle, specifically to investigate whether it applies when calculating the volume of oblique solids. Lesson includes...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Reflections, Rotations, and Translations

For Teachers 8th Standards
This task uses GeoGebra software, which can be freely downloaded, to explore what happens to the line segments and angles of a triangle when it is reflected, rotated, and translated. Includes printable task sheet for students and a...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Points Equidistant From Two Points in the Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a line segment that is bisected at a right angle by a second line. They are asked to prove statements about this geometric construction. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that can be used by the instructor to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G C Similar Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are asked to show that all circles are similar using two different methods, a visual one and an algebraic one. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that can be used by the instructor to demonstrate the material. Aligns...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Explaining the Equation for a Circle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This problem examines equations defining different circles in the x-y plane. Students must use the Pythagorean Theorem to find equations whose solutions are points on the circle and explain why they work. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Building a Quadratic Function From F(x) = X^2

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is the first of a series of tasks aiming at understanding the quadratic formula in a geometric way in terms of the graph of a quadratic function. Here the student works with an explicit function and studies the impact of additive...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Identifying Even and Odd Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are presented with four functions and must determine whether each is odd, even, or neither. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that can be used by the instructor to demonstrate the material. Aligns with F-BF.B.3.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Kitchen Floor Tiles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task about tiling a kitchen floor is to give students practice in reading, analyzing, and constructing algebraic expressions, attending to the relationship between the form of an expression and the context from which...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Find the Angle

For Teachers 8th Standards
For this task, 8th graders have to reason with angles and angle measurements, including the sum of the angles in a triangle, to deduce information from a picture. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that the teacher can use for demonstration...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Congruent Triangles

For Teachers 8th Standards
In this task, 8th graders investigate congruence and transformations of two triangles on a coordinate grid. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that the teacher can use for demonstration purposes. Aligns with 8.G.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Why Does Sss Work?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students must show that two triangles are congruent given a set of steps which produce a rigid transformation of the plane. Includes an experimental GeoGebra worksheet that instructors can use to demonstrate the task....
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: g.co Bisecting an Angle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students practice bisecting an angle. Includes a GeoGebra worksheet that teachers can use to demonstrate the task. Aligns with G-CO.D.12.