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Number Chameleon
Students complete a worksheet in which they study the relationships between fractions, decimal, and percents.
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Sea Ice: Unscrambling the Egg Code
Students determine sea ice thickness, concentration, and floe size by reading egg codes. In this sea ice conditions lesson, students color code a map based on prescribed criteria and use the maps to identify changes in sea ice...
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Conversions: Metrics Made Easy
Young scholars, in groups, measure and record each other's height. They identify measurement conversion methods and use online resources to convert measured heights to multiple systems.
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Skateboards
Middle schoolers examine two plants that make skateboards. They practice converting fractions to percents in real life applications.
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Ratio and Proportions
Students explore the means and extremes of a proportion, the how to make a scale drawing.
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Conversions: Metrics Made Easy
Students convert standard units of measurement to metric units using tape measures, meter sticks, rulers, and online conversion calculators.
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Math League Baseball: Five Week Project
Eighth graders analyze how to use statistics, change fractions to decimal, and graph their statistics. They draft players from Major League Baseball eams and chose on player for each position, including 3 oufielders and one designated...
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Reading Trees: Understanding Dendrochronology
Students examine tree-ring dating and discuss the lack of water the settlers in Jamestown faced. They create paper tree rings, simulate rain patterns, and describe the history of construction paper tree sequences.
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Better Lesson: Moving From Fractions to Decimals
Introduce students to decimals with this lesson. Students will explore how fractions can be changed to decimals with place value charts.