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Curated OER

Painting - Architecture Study

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study architectural elements, then develop a strong composition from an interior photographs. They explore color planning by developing a painting with a variety of values.
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Curated OER

Buying My First Car

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Two School Dance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The purpose of this task is to see how well middle schoolers students understand and reason with ratios. This task was adapted from problem #14 on the 2011 American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 8 Test. Aligns with 7.RP.A.3. The site...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Walk a Thon 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to translate information about a context involving constant speed into information presented in a table and to find the time it takes to travel a unit distance as well as the distance traveled per...