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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Distributions and Univariate Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions comparing distributions of univariate data. The student is asked to note the differences between distributions regarding center, shape, spread, and existence of outliers.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Edible Alabama and Her Agricultural Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a great culminating activity after a unit study on the natural resources of the state of Alabama. Students will investigate some of Alabama's agricultural resources and create a multimedia presentation about one of them or recipe...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Minimum and Maximum Perimeter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The students can use varying numbers of tiles to form shapes, and then find the minimum and maximum perimeter for each.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Share and Share Alike (Equal Parts)

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Shape Up or Ship Out"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this activity, students will identify shapes that architects use to build houses. Students will then explore these shapes by building a model "dream" home.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id Haircut Costs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson could be used as an introductory lesson to introduce group comparisons. Being able to use data to compare two groups is an important skill. Students will sketch box plots using the data given about the cost of haircuts for...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Origami Geometry

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Origami (ori-folding, kami-paper) is the traditional Japanese art of folding paper. Students will discover relationships between shapes as they are actively engaged in this hands on geometry instructional activity to learn basic...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Explorer Draw App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Exploring Three Dimensional Cubes This App contains two familiar tools, Logo Light and Isometric Dots. Draw two-dimensional shapes using the programming commands in Logo Light. Draw representations of three-dimensional cubes using...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Tan"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The Chinese character mark formerly known as "Tan" is the first of two lessons to introduce first grade students to geometry using tangrams. This lesson incorporates history, math, and language arts. In this lesson students will be able...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Understanding Fractions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson the children will demonstrate parts of a whole using a candy bar (or fruit), and piece of paper. The activities are used as instructional plans to help students better understand shapes and parts of a shape up to a whole....
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Geometric Solids

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The instructional tool explores various geometric solids and their properties. Student can manipulate and color the different shapes. Learners examine the edges, faces, and vertices of the different solid figures.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Tan Ii

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The Chinese character mark for Tan II (pronounced she-tow-bah) is the second of two lessons to introduce first grade students to geometry using tangrams. This lesson incorporates history, math, and language arts. In this lesson students...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What's My Equation?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use TI-Navigator to guess the equation of a famous or interesting shape.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Copying an Angle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore relationships (including congruence and similarity) among classes of two- and three-dimensional geometric objects, make and test conjectures about them, and solve problems involving them.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Draw a Picture 1

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use the problem solving strategy, draw a picture, to identify the characteristics described in the correct picture. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance...
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Volume of a Cube

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
"The volume of a cube can be developed by considering unit cubes, a single row (longs) of unit cubes or a single layer (flats) of cubes using this applet." This easy software makes it possible to easily construct a cube and take it...
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PE Central

Pe Central: People Puzzles: Communication and Cooperation Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using large shapes and patterns, this physical activity requires that young scholars use effective oral communication to complete the group task.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Shaping the Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will utilize new found knowledge of architectural design and engineering to apply math and science skills in building a structure. By using interactive websites, they will create scale drawing plans and design and engineer a...
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Isometric Drawing Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes an interactive math tool to create drawings on isometric dot paper. You can draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. Rotate and color your drawings, and view them in 3D or 2D.
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George Eastman Museum

African Americans: Black History Through Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of photographs from the Eastman House collection. They include portraits of important figures who shaped American history, as well as many other African Americans, whose names are unknown.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering Algebra: Changing the Shape of a Graph

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn how to stretch or shrink a graph vertically.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Give Me a Hand or Leaf Me Alone

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students' find the surface area of geometric shapes cut from card paper and relate it to its mass. They use this data to find the surface area of irregularly shaped objects.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: I Want My Half

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, the children will identify parts of a whole using modeling clay, participate in an interactive web lesson, participate in an interactive web game, and construct a fraction poster. The activities are used as instructional...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Simulation of Sampling Distributions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains questions about simulating sampling distributions. Students see graphs of simulated distributions enabling them to reach conclusions about mean, shape, and standard deviation.