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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Rational or Irrational? That Is the Question

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners 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...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Suzanne Alejandre: Pirate Diamond Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An interesting small-group activity that will engage middle schoolers in problem solving, reasoning, and communicating their mathematical thoughts with eachother. The materials needed for the project and the steps the teacher should...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: An Exploration Into Finding Slopes of Inclines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will work in small groups to analyze a topographical map of the Fiery Gizzard hiking trail on the Cumberland Plateau in southeastern Tennessee. They will use the map key to determine distance traveled and elevation gained to...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Calendar Fun Operations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to help students evaluate numerical expressions by using order of operations. The students will be provided a calendar for the current month of the year. Students will then be provided with a worksheet that...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: My Peanut Butter Is Better Than Yours!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The students will engage in the process of statistical data comparing data using tables and scatterplots. The students will compare data using measures of center (mean and median) and measures of spread (range). This lesson can be done...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Polynomials Divided by Monomials

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigation of division of polynomials by mononials. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dartboard Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson learners will find probability of events presented in a geometric context. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: It's in the Bag!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
It's in the Bag will allow students to explore basic principles of probability. Students will investigation the likelihood of a certain color cube coming out of a bag. Then proceed to write word problems involving the plausible outcomes....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Midpoint of a Line Segment.

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exponents and Division

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will introduce the exponent and division rule, the zero exponent rule, and the negative exponent rule. Students will make a human fraction to discover the division rule for exponents. The lesson will also introduce various...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Piece of Pi

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson uses graphing to help young scholars understand that pi is a constant and is the slope of the line graphed on a circumference vs. diameter graph.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exploring Slope

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this lesson is to help students see the real world application of slope. The students will view a movie clip of slope, calculate the slope of stairs in the school building, and analyze results.This lesson plan was created...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Battleships

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is designed to review and reinforce three methods (graphing, substitution and elimination) of solving systems of linear equations. The students will work together and independently to find the solutions to systems of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Make a Pie

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will survey their classmates and construct circle graphs to display their results. Students will produce circle graphs using a compass and protractor, and then with an interactive computer program.This lesson plan was...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: I'm Lovin' It: Finding Areas Between Curves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will best fit equations to a curve to find the area of a logo or image. Images will include McDonalds, Nike, and the Motorola logo. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exponential Growth and Decay

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson on exponential growth and decay involves a variety of teaching resources. There are a variety of websites used to teach and reinforce how to identify exponential growth or decay and how to solve problems relating to growth...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Factoring by Mack"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Thirsty for Ratios

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, the students will learn what a ratio is and how it can be used in a comparison. In this lesson, students will also determine how to combine a sports drink in powder form and water to make enough for a whole football team....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Box and Whisker With a Bed Sheet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The class will make a list of all of their classmates heights, ages in months, and shoe sizes. They will then use this data to create a human box-and-whisker plot. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Human Slope

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will participate in this discovery activity intended for them to uncover the role each variable plays in the graph of a line in the form y = mx + b. Students will actually demonstrate lines in slope intercept form on a life size...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Graphing Fun

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this hands-on project, middle schoolers have the opportunity to survey their classmates to find information that is meaningful to them. Then students will construct graphs using computer software. Middle schoolers will analyze their...
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Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments:how to Measure the Height of a Tree

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This part...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Fair Division Activities

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of activities in fair division allows students to work in groups on discrete math concepts. Tips are included on how to incorporate the activities into other math areas, including Algebra and Geometry.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th
This MathWorld tutorial provides detailed overviews of the concepts and theorems associated with geometry. Most of the Math World sites are extensive and some require higher math knowledge to understand, links to terms and topics are...

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