This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides a brief profile of Johann Bernoulli. The information is set up in a list format, covering topics such as: dates, father, nationality, education, religion, and scientific...

This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...

Using a 'news report' approach, students investigate the slope of various stairways on the school campus and report on wheelchair accessibility and adherence to the Americans with Disabilities Act. (PowerPoint Included) An extension of...

The purpose of this lesson is to help students apply math concepts of solving systems of equations to real life situations. The students will use the three methods of graphing, substitution, and elimination to solve the system of...

Students will participate in an activity that will help them obtain a feeling of how numbers are related to each other. They will determine whether a number is rational or irrational. Students will also be able to order rational and...

This strategy for factoring trinomials will eliminate the trial-and-error method used in most textbooks.The lesson plan will be a direct teaching lesson plan. With the teacher lecturing and the students taking notes and then having the...

In this instructional activity, the students will learn what a ratio is and how it can be used in a comparison. In this instructional activity, students will also determine how to combine a sports drink in powder form and water to make...

This lesson is designed for an Algebra II through Pre-Calculus classes and introduces the conic section- an ellipse. In this lesson students explore an ellipse, the set of points in a plane such that the sum of the distances from each...