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Statistical Pictures of School and Life
Students explore how mathematical data is used to summarize and illustrate everyday life. They apply mathematical concepts and skills to analyze data. Students conduct a five question survey of 50 people or more and graph the data.
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Solving Problems Involving Chords, Radii, Tangents, Secants and Arcs within the Same Circle
Tenth graders apply their knowledge of angles related to a circle, radii, secants, tangents and chords of a circle. They practice using formulas related to a circle. They also apply what has been practiced to real life situations.
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Finding Patterns in Fractals
Students discover patterns and sequences. They use a website to explore patterns and fractals. Students share their discovery of fractals and their patterns with the class. They develop a list of patterns used in everyday life.
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Linear Graphs and Patterns
Fifth graders find pairs of whole number co-ordinates and use them to draw graphs in problem contexts. They find and interpret the all meaningful pairs of whole number co-ordinates from graphs.
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Measuring Ourselves
Fifth graders conduct various measurement activities on themselves and a partner. They measure their height, weight, thumb-to-pinky span, and body temperature, recording the information in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.
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Student Costs Graph
Young scholars calculate the mileage, gasoline costs, and travel time and costs for a vacation. They conduct a virtual field trip, and create a comparison graph of costs using Microsoft Excel software.
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Virtual Field Trip: Lodging and Meals
Students calculate the costs for lodging and meals for a virtual field trip. They calculate the number of nights lodging needed for road and city travel and the number of meals needed, the costs for each, and input the data using...
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Using Representations to Model Problems
student make predictions or draw conclusions based on physical and visual representations of profit and sales. They model problems with physical materials and visual representations, and use models, graphs and tables to draw conclusions...
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Engineering in a Calculus Classroom
Students solve several differential equations. In this calculus lesson, students test their modulus calculation by testing different weights or beam lengths. They share their findings in class.
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Physics: Angular Solution of Hydrogen Atom
Students discover the angular solution of hydrogen activity. Depending on the undergraduate course, this activity can illustrate eigenvalue problems, to introduce Shrodinger's equation and particle wave duality, or to introduce...
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Transformations
Tenth graders recognize, perform and derive rules for basic transformations including translation, reflection and rotation. They also consider compositions, a combination of two or more basic transformations. Students explore both...
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Addition With Memory
In this math learning exercise, students perform multi-step operations that involve the addition of two other operations. The sheet is a teacher's guide.
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How Do You Get Home from School?
First graders create pictographs and interpret results of transportation home from school.
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Surveying During a Basketball Game
Tenth graders conduct a survey at a high school basketball game. They compile and present the data as histograms or bar graphs.
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Identifying Fraction Formats
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems that are related to the formats used for fractions. The sheet is intended as a teacher's guide.
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Words for Algebra
Students rewrite word problems using symbols. In this algebra lesson, students relate algebra to the real world. They identify the correct steps to take when solving word problems.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining Worksheet
In this coal mining math worksheet, students perform a set of operations to determine profit of mining a "chocolate chip cookie" and graph results.
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Money Skills (Using Coins)
Students pretend to purchase items at their class store using coins. At the store, they are to state the amount of the item they want to buy by reading the label. They give the cashier the correct amount of coins and are given a mark on...
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Physics: Eigenvalues
Young scholars solve problems by discovering the eigenvalues that satisfy design questions. They explain how relaxing a small angle approximation can change the solution. Students apply the numerical model of pendulumm motion to solve...
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Practicing Arithmetic
Students practice single operation arithmetic ranging from single digit addition to long division of decimals or real numbers using Graphit. They use data sets and rules to graph ordered pairs.
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Division With Memory
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems that are created using the Adobe Reader Software. The sheet is intended as a teacher's guide.
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Multiplication With Memory
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems that are based upon the operation of multiplication and strengthen memory. The sheet is a teacher's guide.
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Subtraction With Memory
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems using the skill of subtraction while working on memory. The sheet is a teacher's guide.