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Alex: Shape Makers
In this Five E's AMSTI lesson, young scholars discover relationships between shapes. Students discover multiple ways to combine shapes to fill the area of a given shape using real and virtual pattern blocks, and share their solutions...
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Alex: Popcorn Bucket or Box?
In this exploration, students will apply their knowledge of finding volume and surface area of cylinders and rectangular prisms. Students will make recommendations to the local movie theater after determining which package is cost...
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Alex: Explorations in Place Value
Explorations in Place Value is an interactive math mini-unit that incorporates the use of children's literature, mathematical learning stations, and small group instructional strategies to reinforce basic principles of place value and to...
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Alex: Talking in Circles
The students will identify parts of the circle including center, radius, diameter, chord, and arc. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Imaginary Numbers? What Do You Mean Imaginary?
Is it any wonder that young scholars are suspicious? We lead, sometimes drag, them through Algebra I insisting they must follow the order of operations. We make them learn the "hard way" of doing an assignment one day only to show them...
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Alex: Easy Equivalent Measures
Easy Equivalent Measures is an exciting, engaging instructional activity that will make this unpopular, hard skill EASY for your young scholars. We will use Input/Output charts to demonstrate our knowledge of equivalent measures. This...
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Alex: Circles All Around Us
In this lesson, students will estimate several dimensions of circles in everyday objects. Students will use the metric and customary systems for their estimations. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through...
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Alex: Dartboard Probability
In this instructional activity learners will find probability of events presented in a geometric context. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: It's in the Bag!
It's in the Bag will allow middle schoolers to explore basic principles of probability. Students will investigation the likelihood of a certain color cube coming out of a bag. Then proceed to write word problems involving the plausible...
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Alex: A Scents Able Solution
Students will use a variety of math operations to create a flower bouquet within a budget. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Who's Line Is It Anyway?
In this lesson students will learn about line of symmetry in real life objects. An interactive web lesson is used to engage students and give a multitude of real life examples with some interactive practice. The lesson also includes an...
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Alex: Cutting the Cheese
The students will find the area of each two dimensional figure on a net of a triangular prism. In groups, students will cut out the net and create a triangular prism. Groups will then discuss how to find the lateral area and the total...
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Alex: Maybe Maybe Not
In Maybe, Maybe Not learners will explore and investigate components of probability. This lesson will enable students to develop understanding of a likelihood line and apply events to the line. This lesson plan was created by exemplary...
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Alex: How Low Can You Go?
In this lesson, students will identify and locate numberspostive and negative numbers, including decimals and fractions on a number line. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Are You Interest Ed?
In this instructional activity, young scholars will explore simple interest through the use of studying loans and savings accounts. The students will generate the formula I=P x r x t to calculate simple interest on loans. Young scholars...
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Alex: Guess My Shape
The students will make the connection between 2-D and 3-D shapes using modeling clay and geometric solids and participate in an interactive web lesson. Students will make predictions about what 2-D shape they think will be made when they...
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Alex: Positively f.u.n. !
This instructional activity 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...
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Alex: Why Do We Need Measurement Tools?
This lesson will explore the need for standard measurement tools. It will engage the learners and promote critical thinking and reasoning. This is a lead in lesson to conversions. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math...
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Alex: What's the Chance?
Students engage in opportunities to label events that are likely, unlikely, certain and impossible. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Share and Share Alike (Equal Parts)
This Five E's AMSTI lesson plan equips students to divide an object into equal parts. A story and interactive whiteboard activity about sharing food demonstrate the idea of equal halves of circles, after which students attempt to half...
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Alex: Midpoint of a Line Segment.
Investigate finding the midpoint of a line segment and derive the formula for the midpoint of two points on a coordinate plane. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: I Want My Half
In this activity, the children will identify parts of a whole using modeling clay, participate in an interactive web activity, participate in an interactive web game, and construct a fraction poster. The activities are used as...
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Alex: Thinking Outside the "Box"
The middle schoolers will find the area of each two dimensional figure on a net of a rectangular prism. In groups, students will cut out the net and create a rectangular prism. Groups will then discuss how to find the lateral area and...
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Alex: What Do We Have in Common?
This inquiry instructional activity explores the definitions of quadrilaterals and the properties of the diagonals of quadrilaterals to classify quadrilaterals. Students will work cooperatively to justify conclusions. This lesson plan...