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...
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.
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...
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...
PBS
Pbs: Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations
This lesson deals primarily with the number of rhythmic combinations that can be found in a four beat measure of music. Students will learn through trial and error and derive a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible...
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.
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Wildlife Math
This integrated lesson is the result of collaboration between Chip Blanton, a wildlife management teacher, and Greg Pendergrass, a math teacher (Ft. Payne High School). Learning to manage wildlife requires an understanding of planting...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Probability: Targeted Math
At the end of this lesson plan, students will be able to calculate probability for real-life situations.
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.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Calculus: Volume by Cross Section
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This tutorial explains how to calculate the volume of various solids using the 'slicing' method and then deriving a formula for each solid. It goes on to discuss...
Free Math Help
Free Math Help: Future Value
The tutorial examines future value. The lesson consists of a compound interest formula, continuously compounded interest formula, and a future value calculator.
Wyzant
Wyzant: Factoring a Trinomial
The tutorial explains how to factor trinomials. The resource includes a lesson with examples, practice problems, and an expression-factoring calculator.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Time Value of Money
We've all heard the phrase "Time is money." But what do these two things actually have to do with one another? German Nande explains the math behind interest rates, revealing the equation that will allow you to calculate the future value...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Puttin' It All Together
On the topic of energy related to motion, this summary lesson is intended to tie together the concepts of work, power, collisions, momentum and drag. A hands-on activity demonstrates this idea and reinforces learners' math skills in...
Wyzant
Wyzant: Simplifying Using the Distributive Property
Students investigate how to simplify using the distributive property. The resource consists of lessons with examples, an expression simplifying calculator, and a worksheet to check for comprehension.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Linear Quadratic Systems
The mathematics tutorial explores how to solve linear and quadratic systems of equations. The lesson consists of class notes, calculator tips, examples, and practice problems with solutions. The teacher resource includes a worksheet that...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Percents Defined
Learn how to calculate percent as a rate per 100 in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students model percent with a 10 x 10 grid. After watching the video, they create a design or picture on a 10 x 10 grid,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Pass It Down
This lesson, Pass It Down, integrates science and math into two consecutive hands-on genetics activities that should be embedded within an existing genetics unit suitable for biology students. The results of each activity will be...
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Human Impact: Oil Consumption
Lesson plan allows learners to practice their math skills by calculating how many barrels of oil they and their families consume.