Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Area and Perimeter Review Using Legos
Lesson plan in which students calculate area, build areas to a given amount, and calculate the perimeter with the use of Legos. Step by step instructions and videos are provided. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.c Use area models to represent...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rewriting Formulas
For this lesson, young scholars explore "real-life" resources that make use of literal equations (rewriting known formulas) to help make people's lives easier. Students will use Excel to design formulas that find a specific value like...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Calculating Work Done by Forces
Through interactive practice problems and examples, students calculate the amount of work done by forces.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Trip Through Space to Calculate Distance
Imagine two aliens racing across outer space to their moon. Who can we deem the fastest alien? With DIRT- or the equation Distance = Rate x Time- we can calculate their rates, using the distance they traveled and the time they took....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Fiscal Policy
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms, calculations, and graphs related to fiscal policy. Topics include how taxes and spending can be used to close an output gap, how to model the effect of a change in taxes...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Praxis Core Math: Circles Lesson
A basic review of circles and how to calculate the circumference, radius, diameter, and area. Includes practice questions.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Compound Events Visual Displays of Sample Spaces
Seventh graders will be able to represent the sample space of compound events, and calculate the probability of events using their sample space.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Circular Flow and Gdp
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and calculations used in describing the output of an economy. Key topics include the expenditures approach, income approach, and value added approach to calculating GDP...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Definition, Measurement, and Functions of Money
This information is intended for AP Macroeconomics students or for those taking college macroeconomics. This lesson reviews key terms and calculations related to the definition, measurement, and functions of money. Topics include the...
Math Planet
Math Planet: Calculating With Decimals and Fractions
Gain an understanding of how to calculate with decimals and fractions by viewing an example and a video lesson.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Calculating the Outcome
Gain an understanding of how to calculate the outcome using a tree-diagram by viewing an example and a video lesson.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Intro to the Concept of Probability
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to introduce students to the concepts of probability. Students learn about the definition of, outcomes in, and calculations of experimental probability. Students use an...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Clock Facts
Students calculate elapsed time using analog clocks. Included in this instructional activity are a detailed plan, clock template, and video of students making their clocks.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Angles Are on a Bat House?
Third graders are preparing to build bat houses. They have calculated surface area, identified nail placement, and will now collect data on angle types in this real-world activity.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Understanding the Bush Tax Cut Plan (Lesson Plan)
A lesson plans that requires young scholars to calculate income tax rates, interpret data tables and tax tables, critically analyze articles detailing a tax cut plan proposed by the Bush administration, and form opinions about the impact...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Math Behind Michael Jordan's Legendary Hang Time
Learn the affect of gravitational acceleration by calculating what Michael Jordan's hang time would be if he played basketball elsewhere in the universe.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Math Foundations: Divisibility and Primes: The Distribution of Primes
This lesson focuses on the distribution of large prime numbers. It offers a calculator to check numbers for prime and a calculator that allows you to create prime numbers. It also provides the history of methods find the distribution of...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Regression Analysis
A collection of lesson ideas, a practice activity, and teacher resources for exploring regression analysis.
Oregon State University
Calculus Quest: Power Functions
This CalculusQuest site is details the power function by looking at the significance of the function, standard notation, the rules of exponentiation, domains and graphs of power functions, and also calculations. This site is a good...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Applications of Histograms
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use calculators to create graphical representations of data, such as histograms.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Mass, Weight and Gravitational Field Strength
This lesson focuses on gravitational fields and includes what one is, the formula for gravity force, defining weight, formula for mass, an example of how to calculate gravity force, a practice question, and a link to a test.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Geometry: Circle and Pi: Introduction
This lesson focuses on the characteristics of a circle including similarity, radius, circumference, and Pi. It provides formulas to determine the area of a circle, calculating Pi, and learning exercises throughout.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Ordering and Computing With Negative Fractions and Decimals
This lesson plan allows students to practice comparing and ordering rational numbers on a number line as well as computing with fractions and decimals. It provides an assessment plan and attachments for the lesson's activities.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Exponential Growth
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of exponential growth, especially in comparison to linear growth. This is done in the context of weekly allowances, in which one group earns a...