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How Does Your Population Grown?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Do you know how the population has grown of your community? Can you predict the population over the next half century? Can we find an algebraic model that matches our data? These along with many more questions can be researched by...
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Zome System

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Get hundreds of interactive activity plans using the Zome Modeling System. Among dozens of lessons, a first exposure to similar triangles can be very visual for the learner. Here, young geometers explore the number of different shapes...
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Fibonacci Sequences Icebreaker

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore Fibonacci sequences. In this math lesson, students identify the relationship between two numbers. Students use Fibonacci sequences to create algebraic equations.
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Guess That Sequence!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students analyze number sense by participating in a pattern identification activity. In this number sequence lesson, students examine several groups of numbers and identify the sequence in the group before adding on to it. Students check...
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Patterns in Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Research patterns in nature which illustrate biological and mathematical concepts. Your class will discover and explore aspects of fractals, Fibonaccis numbers, whale and butterfly migration patterns, whale identification, flower...
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Difference of Equations

For Students 11th - 12th
In this difference of equations instructional activity, students solve and complete 49 various types of problems. First, they obtain the solution of any linear homogeneous second order difference equation. Then, students apply the method...
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Secret Sequences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are exposed to different types of sequences. in this sequencing lesson, students learn about simple sequences, multiplication sequences, declining sequences, the Fibonacci sequence and other sequences.
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Easy Worksheet: Special Numbers

For Students 9th - 12th
In this special numbers activity, students solve 4 short answer problems. Students find various terms in the Fibonacci sequence, triangular number sequence, and the natural numbers in Pascal's Triangle.
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Where Math Meets Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify Fibonacci's sequence of numbers and use the pattern to write poetry with one syllable words. In this math and writing lesson, students identify Fibonacci's sequence of numbers and learn about this early mathematician....
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The Golden Rectangle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of the golden ratio. In this golden ratio instructional activity, students measure objects to determine if their measurements fit the golden ratio. Students calculate the average measurements of the class.
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There's More Than One Way to Get to St. George!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore alternative ways to do the four operations.
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Numbers in Nature

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students identify numbers in nature. In this algebra lesson, students solve problems using Fibonacci sequence as it is expressed in nature. They research the Fibonacci's pattern as it relates to numbers.
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Using Ratios

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students study the Golden Ratio and its relationship to Renaissance artists. After exploring proportions and ratios used by Renaissance artists, students create a mix of ten variations of color paint, and record the ratios of primary...
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Leonardo of Pisa and the Golden Rectangle

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Young scholars investigate geometry and algebra and the history behind these two interesting subjects. In this algebra lesson, students analyze the Fibonacci Sequence and relate it to solving exponential equations. There are alot of...
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Modeling pentagrams using Geometers Sketchpad

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students using visual modeling software will construct two regular pentagrams which are mathematically similar. They also create a multi-page document and learn to create links between the pages and to a website on the History of...
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Probability

For Students 9th - 12th
In this probability and statistics learning exercise, students determine the probability of a series of independent event occurring.  The one page learning exercise contains a combination of four multiple choice and free response...
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Hexagonal Pattern of Beehives

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young geometers and biologists investigate the math of nature in an activity that is just the bee's knees. Participants will study the tessellations of hexagons in a beehive, along with the natural rationale behind the specific shape....
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What's My Function?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders utilize input/output tables to help them solve algebraic equations. They incorporate patterns, number sequences and relations to represent and analyze mathematical problems and number relationships using algebraic symbols.
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As Good As Gold

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students find examples of the Golden Ratio on the human body through measurement. Additionally, students learn about the use of the Golden Ratio and the Golden Rectangle in art and architecture. A very interesting lesson for the students!
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Patterns in Nature

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn about artist Larry Schulte and view examples of his work. They create addition sentence for the first seven numbers of the fibonacci sequence and use unifix cubes to build that sentences. Students color and create three...
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Golden Connections

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine the ratio of pairs of consecutive terms in the Fibonacci Sequence. Using four different colors, they create a golden rectangle in either two or three dimensions. They use photographs to create two collages using...
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Eye Spy a Pattern

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how to see patterns by showing how things work together. They identify, analyze and determine a rule for predicting and extending numberical patterns involving operations of whole numbers, decimals and fractions.
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Probability

For Students 9th - 12th
In the probability and statistics worksheet, students determine the probability of an event occurring.  The one page worksheet contains one multiple choice question with the solution.
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Design, Grow, and Ponder in a Garden

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A garden can inspire students to make mathematical connections.

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