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Octagon Lesson Plan
Young scholars investigate octagons using words and shapes. In this geometry activity, students discuss the shape of an octagon using physical and symbolic models. They make conjecture about the shape and relate it to the real world.
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Fractions Describe Parts of a Whole
Third graders represent fractions as part of a whole. In this fractions lesson, 3rd graders use manipulatives to show how a fraction is a part of a whole. This lesson includes individual practice and an assessment instead of direct...
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Fractions of a Set
Third graders use fractions to describe part of a set. In this fractions instructional activity, 3rd graders are introduced to fractions through a book and use pattern blocks to describe a fraction as a part of a set. This instructional...
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Translating Transformations in Geometry
Students create an image using given coordinates and evaluate how the coordinates change when a slide or rotation takes place.
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Reflections
Fifth graders create a reflection of a poygon using a Mira. They discover that a line connecting a vertiex of a polygon and the corresponding vertex of its reflection is perpendicular to the line of reflection. Students create a glide...
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What's Your Design?
Sixth grade students: design a stained glass window, submitting their initial plan detailing the measurements of all lines and angles. Seventh grade students: create a scale drawing of their own geometric family of four members.
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Exploring Volume of Cylinders
Tenth graders investigate the volume of a cylinder. In this geometry lesson, 10th graders create three-dimensional cylinders and use a ruler to determine the dimensions. The lesson progresses to the use of the formula to find...
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Qu'est-ce Que C'est? Foreign Phrases
Eighth graders develop their reading comprehension skills by reading foriegn phrases. They also use the foreign phrases to develop their writing skills.
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Measure Up!
Students examine parallax and angular measurements. In this investigative lesson students calculate distances of objects and map their results.
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Are you in Golden Shape
Learners solve and verify the solution for unknown measures. In this geometry lesson, students identify the properties of circles. They use the arc, angle and segment relationship to find the missing measures.
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Problem Posing Mathematics
Students work on multiplication problems. In this hands-on math lesson, students practice the concept of multiplication through manipulatives, arrays, pictures, and drawings. They discover other ways of learning multiplication besides...
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Cracks on the Walls
Students observe the cracks in school walls and pavements. In this geometry lesson, students explore the factors to be considered before building a structure. They complete a graphing and calculation worksheet after the lesson.
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You Can Count on Squares!
Fourth graders engage in and explore to develop mathematical, specifically algebraic, ideas. Although the tasks are built around measurement, they are algebraic to the extent that they require 'formulae' to be derived form the geometric...
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Fly Away With Averages
Learners discover the process of finding the mean, median, and mode. Through guided practice and problem solving activities, they use a computer program to input data and create a graph. Graph data is used to calculate the mean,...
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Fly Away With Averages
Students study mean, median, and mode. They construct paper airplanes and test them to see how far they fly. They measure the distance and then find the averages of their throws. They use spreadsheet software to record the data in a...
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Distortion Unleashed
Learners view examples of man-made structures and create a building that matches the style. Using the internet, they research the style of Frank Lloyd Wright and create plans for creating their own community. They use a painting of...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Area of Composite Shapes
Sixth graders take their knowledge about area of rectangles, squares and triangles and apply it to parallelograms, trapezoids, and composite shapes.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Measurement, Perimeter, and Area Activities
Measurement, perimeter, and area skills are exhibited while students participate in these hands-on lessons. Each lesson plan includes objectives, methods, strategies, a description, and assessment techniques.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Search the Perimeter and Secure the Area
This lesson will not only help students compare and contrast the concepts of area and perimeter, but it will also move toward the concept that area is maximized while minimizing perimeter with a square.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Bubble Mania Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Determine the area, diameter, and circumerfence of a bubble residue by creating a soap solution and blowing bubbles.
Alabama Learning Exchange
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Swimming Pool Math
Students will use a swimming pool example to practice finding perimeter and area of different rectangles.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Circling Around
Students will calculate the diameter, circumference, and ratio of a real world object. Students will create an electronic slideshow to illustrate the process of determining the diameter, circumference, and ratio of these objects.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Suzanne Alejandre: Factor Lesson
Young scholars will discover factoring through the area of a rectangle.