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Alex: A Scents Able Solution
Students will use a variety of math operations to create a flower bouquet within a budget. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Cutting the Cheese
The learners will find the area of each two dimensional figure on a net of a triangular prism. In groups, students will cut out the net and create a triangular prism. Groups will then discuss how to find the lateral area and the total...
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Alex: Maybe Maybe Not
In Maybe, Maybe Not students will explore and investigate components of probability. This instructional activity will enable students to develop understanding of a likelihood line and apply events to the line. This lesson plan was...
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Alex: How Low Can You Go?
In this lesson, students will identify and locate numberspostive and negative numbers, including decimals and fractions on a number line. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Are You Interest Ed?
In this lesson, students will explore simple interest through the use of studying loans and savings accounts. The students will generate the formula I=P x r x t to calculate simple interest on loans. Students will become familiar with...
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Alex: Guess My Shape
The students will make the connection between 2-D and 3-D shapes using modeling clay and geometric solids and participate in an interactive web lesson. Students will make predictions about what 2-D shape they think will be made when they...
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Alex: Positively f.u.n. !
This lesson will actively engage students to identify and add positive and negative integers. In cooperative groups, students will discuss everyday vocabulary that will activate students' existing background knowledge and set the purpose...
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Alex: Why Do We Need Measurement Tools?
This lesson plan will explore the need for standard measurement tools. It will engage the students and promote critical thinking and reasoning. This is a lead in lesson plan to conversions. This lesson plan was created by exemplary...
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Alex: What's the Chance?
Young scholars engage in opportunities to label events that are likely, unlikely, certain and impossible. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Midpoint of a Line Segment.
Investigate finding the midpoint of a line segment and derive the formula for the midpoint of two points on a coordinate plane. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Thinking Outside the "Box"
The students will find the area of each two dimensional figure on a net of a rectangular prism. In groups, students will cut out the net and create a rectangular prism. Groups will then discuss how to find the lateral area and the total...
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Alex: What Do We Have in Common?
This inquiry activity explores the definitions of quadrilaterals and the properties of the diagonals of quadrilaterals to classify quadrilaterals. Learners will work cooperatively to justify conclusions. This lesson plan was created by...
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Alex: Let's Go Shopping!
This lesson will give students practice with adding and subtracting money using a calculator. It will provide them an opportunity to determine savings using a store coupon, and determine the change they should recieve when making...
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Alex: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
As a hands-on lesson, the learners will recognize the correct usage of the order of operations. In groups, the students will work cooperatively to discover the importance of following step-by-step instructions and apply that knowledge in...
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Alex: Fractions on a Number Line
As students master the concept of the number line, they may be curious about where fractions would fit on a standard number line. Students will work cooperatively to explore the possibilities where fractions lie on number lines. Students...
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Alex: Pump Up the Volume
In this instructional activity, learners will be required to generate a formula for volume of a rectangular prism. Students working in cooperative groups will use prior knowledge for finding area of a rectangle to determine the "amount...
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Alex: Geometric Mean and Indirect Measurement
In this inquiry-based lesson plan, learners will work in groups to gather measurements needed to approximate the height of a building. Students will discover how geometric mean can be used to find the lengths of missing sides of right...
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Alex: What's in a Box?
The class has been contracted to work for a box factory. They are to make cube shaped jewelry boxes. Students determine how many different nets are possible and then analyze the resulting cubes. This real-world situation helps to develop...
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Alex: Investigating and Discovering Input & Output Patterns!
This lesson will investigate the patterns involved with Input & Output charts. The students will explore this concept through engaging, inquiry based activities. You will be able to meet the diverse needs of all your learners. This...
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Alex: Exploring Prime Numbers
Exploring Prime Numbers is a hands-on, minds-on math lesson that engages learners in the discovery of prime numbers through the construction of multiplication arrays. Students then extend on their background knowledge of multiples and...
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Alex: 100 More Hungry Ants
Students will investigate what happens to the number of ants at a picinc when 100 more ants arrive at the picnic. They will explore this concept using a slide presentation followed by a partner game. This lesson plan was created by...
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Alex: Hurricanes
This lesson starts out with a short video clip of Hurricane Ivan and shows the pattern it followed. Emphasis is placed on the fact that Hurricane Ivan struck and the eye traveled over Alabama. Discussion of hurricane facts follow....
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Alex: "Twenty Questions" History Virtual Fieldtrip
During this lesson, students engage in a virtual game of "Twenty Questions" with another class. They will utilize textbooks, trade books, the Alabama Virtual Library, and other Internet sites for reference. Each team (class) will be...
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Alex: Get to Know Your Library Media Center
This lesson will provide students with an orientation to the Library Media Center and the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The students will access the Alabama Virtual Library and will participate in a library scavenger hunt as a...