Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mathematics: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine school yearbooks from 1950 to the present. They count the number of male and female teachers and administrators. They compile date and extrapolate changes in job trends.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Estimating With Fire

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Watch the damage from a forest fire in this interactive simulation activity that challenges learners to estimate the burn area using different approaches. Learners are given a worksheet to track the different burn patterns and practice...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Applications of Congruence in Terms of Rigid Motions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Corresponding parts, congruent parts, congruent corresponding parts—what does it all mean? The resource challenges pupils to identify corresponding parts for pairs of figures. It uses examples of figures that undergo rigid...
Lesson Plan
1
1
Visa

Allowances and Spending Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Help youngsters understand how to manage small amounts of money by discussing an allowance and the difference between spending, saving, and giving.  
Lesson Plan
Teach Engineering

Energy Efficiency

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Using the resource is probably the most efficient way to learn about efficiency. The 18th installment of a 25-part Energy Systems and Solutions unit has pupils investigate energy efficiency through discussions and associated activities....
Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Spinners at the School Carnival (Equal Sections)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Spin to win a toy car. A fun activity has pupils use a spinner in which three of the equal sections represent winning a toy car, and the fourth section represents no car. They record the number of wins after certain numbers of spins,...
Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Spinners at the School Carnival (Unequal Sections)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Everyone's a winner. Scholars analyze a spinner with five unequal sections, three of which represent winning a toy car and the other two represent winning a toy truck. They conduct an experiment to estimate the number of toy cars and...
Lesson Plan
Kenan Fellows

Balancing Equations Using Matrices

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Matrices help solve systems of equations in chemistry, computer graphics, circuitry, probability, and more. The second instructional activity in a seven-part series focuses on using matrices to balance chemical equations. Pupils rely on...
Lesson Plan
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Spring Scale Engineering

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
After examining how a spring scale works, teams work together to design their own general measurement device. Reading material provides background information, but there is no part of the procedure in which learners handle an actual...
Lesson Plan
Bowland

How Risky is Life?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
"Life is more risk management, rather than exclusion of risks." -Walter Wriston. Scholars use provided mortality data to determine how likely it is a person will die from a particular cause. They compare the data to the perception of the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Probability Review

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the concepts related to probability. They review the key properties of statistics involved in the measurement of probability that includes mean, median, and mode....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's the Chance?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students conduct probability experiments with dice and coins. They watch a video for a variety of situations where calculating the probability is complicated by total number of possibilities. They solve problems presented in the video.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Do You Feel Lucky?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students calculate simple probabilities using mathematics then roll dice to test their predictions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's in the Bag?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students calculate the probability of an event occurring. In this statistics lesson, students calculate the outcome using combination and permutation. They differentiate between-theoretical and experimental probability.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Birthday Problem

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students make and analyze predictions and attempt to solve the birthday problem. They use the solutions they find to answer related questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is Probability?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners use an abacus as well as a calculator for calculations to bring multicultural awareness and appreciation to this lesson plan. They discuss the history of the abacus. Students compare/contrast the abacus to the computer.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math Lesson Plan: Super Easy 9 Times Tables Trick

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice their times tables. In this multiplication practice lesson, students learn and practice a method that helps them remember the 9 times table.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Game of Chance

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore probability through cooperative group activities and interactive video technique.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coin Tossing

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the use of probability and compare it to actual real world results. In groups, they flip a coin a specific number of times while their other group members roll a set of dice the same amount of times as the coin. To...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Unexpected Answers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore and complete a variety of activities demonstration probability. They make observations about the results of the activities. Students complete and discuss conditional probability. Also, students draw conclusions about...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Theoretically Speaking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners define probability. They determine outcome from a given situation based on simple probability. Students create experimental data using a coin and a number cube. They write how theoretical and experimental probability are different.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Have You Flipped Your Bic?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders flip a dime and a quarter to record and predict the probability of possible outcomes.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chaos

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars experiment with several chaotic simulation, they build a working definition of chaos. Students reinforce their knowledge of basic probability and percents. They are reminded of previous knowledge that is pertinent to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers play a probability game, then design and complete a probability problem concerning changing odds.

Other popular searches