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Consuming Cola

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Caffeine affects your heart rate — or does it? Learners study experimental design while conducting their own experiment. They collect heart rate data after drinking a caffeinated beverage, create a box plot, and draw conclusions....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Building Functions: Composition of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Hammer away at building different types of functions. An engaging lesson builds on learners' knowledge of domain and range to create an understanding of composite functions. Young scholars learn to write composite functions...
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Exploring the Binomial Theorem

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A comprehensive instructional activity that explores and researches Pascal's triangle and relates its properties to the Binomial Theorem through a variety of lessons. Have the class practice expanding polynomials using the theorem. A few...
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A Way to Wealth: Understanding Interest and Investments

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Money motivates! Help young bankers understand how math plays a part in investing. Give learners math practice while instilling real-world financial literacy skills.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Duke Ellington

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students read Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the life of the 20th century composer. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and...
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Box-and-Whisker

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are introduced to the concept of box-and-whisker plots. A step-by-step process for creating a box-and-whisker plot is provided. The goal of the lesson is that students study the components of a box-and-whisker plot and be...
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The Estimation Station

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students challenge "common knowledge" against newly learned estimation strategies and put those strategies into use. They consider variables in estimating different groups of objects and practice skills of representing numbers.
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Mathematics Witing: Algebraic Processes and Its Connections to Geometry

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students, using manipulatives, determine how many different ways there are to arrange 3 and 4 objects. They organize and record their arrangements. Students investigate the pattern generated by 3 and 4 objects, they predict how many ways...
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Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Learning Unit

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore counting and classification. They sort leaves, create graphs, write sentences for the data in the graphs, develop graphs for shapes, favorite animals, birthdays, and participate in a die prediction game.
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Working Backwards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the concept that to solve some problems, they may need to undo the key actions in the problem. This strategy is called working backwards asking the appropriate questions.
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A Statistical Study on the Letters of the Alphabet

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students see that there are mathematical rules that can affect our use of the English language. Calculate the probability of picking any letter at random from a piece of English literature.
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Acting Like a Hog

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore game theory.  In this secondary mathematics lesson, students plat the game of HOG using dice and explore the optimal strategies.  Young scholars play the game three ways:  any number of dice, a fixed...
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What Do We Do With A Dirty Bomb?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine composition of dirty bomb and its possible effects on a city, and investigate simulations of such an event; students use computational and problem solving skills to assess damage and prepare report proposing solution to...
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Computer Passwords

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine an appropriate numerical representation of a problem situation, including roots and powers. They determine an appropriate number of digits to represent an outcome. Pupils are asked to determine how many years it...
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Proving that You Have Found the Minimum

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders pretend to set up an ice cream shop in a make believe town of shapes.  In this geometry lesson, 10th graders work together to put up an ice cream stand in an ideal location and solve for the minimum given the shapes.
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Count The Letters

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students perform activities involving ratios, proportions and percents. Given a newspaper article, groups of students count the number of letters in a given area. They use calculators and data collected to construct a pie chart and bar...
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Possible Outcomes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this statistics worksheet, students plot the possible statistical outcomes by examining the data and plotting the missing answer for the four problems.
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The Math Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the reaction time to figure out problems. They use the following example to get them started with reaction time: the edge of a ruler is placed near a person's thumb and index finger and, without warning, the ruler is...
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Applied Science-Science and Math Post Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore magnification. In this science skills observation lesson, students make a hand lens using a wire loop and a small amount of water.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Up on Top

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students make bar graphs and identify items in the bar graphs as being likely, certain, or impossible. In this bar graphs lesson plan, students answer questions about the bar graphs using reasoning and communication skills.
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Raisin the Statistical Roof

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use a box of raisins to help introduce the concept of data analysis. Learners collect, analyze and display their data using a variety of methods. The included worksheet takes them through a step-by-step analysis process and graphing.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Graphing and the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Ready to introduce your class to the coordinate plane? This website includes a detailed lesson plan that includes two interactive games to help learners practice graphing ordered pairs. The scripted discussion is a little cheesy and a...
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Matrices: A Secret Weapon

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students perform operations with matrices. In this algebra instructional activity, students use cryptography and cryptanalysis to solve problems. They add, subtract, and multiply matrices.
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Factors

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Practice factoring numbers by using graph paper, manipulatives and computer applets.

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