Combine geometry and tradition with a lesson that spotlights Navajo weaving. The book, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood and Martin Link hooks scholars before watching a video of Navajo people tending their sheep and beginning...

Eighth graders list the steps of Darwin's natural selection. They demonstrate the process of natural selection in a predation activity. Students create paper origami frogs to race across the floor and analyze the differences in the...

Students interpret NASS data to determine loss or gain of farm land and compare land in production and crop production over a 50 year period.

Ninth and tenth graders calculate the length, width, height, perimeter, area, volume, surface area, angle measures or sums of angle measures of common geometric figures. They solve problems involving scale drawings, models, maps or...

From the highest high to the lowest low here's a resource that won't fall flat. Given data on the area and the highest and lowest elevations of each of the 50 states, learners decide which states are the least flat and the most flat. Of...

It's time to investigate patterns! First and second graders construct a paper weaving using a hundreds chart, then use the Ti-10 calculator to make patterns such as adding 3 each time. Learners remove multiples of three from the hundreds...

Elementary schoolers use data in a table to make a line plot, then answer five related questions. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.

Third graders complete place value charts in the decimal system, the binary and Hexadecimal system. They discuss the contributions made by Ada Lovelace to computer language. They express the idea of place value with exponents.

In this algebra worksheet, students rewrite word problems using algebraic symbols. They figure out who is telling the truth about the day of the week. They are given different clues to help them get the correct answer. There is an answer...

Twelfth graders discuss attitude necessary to be successful in calculus. In this calculus lesson, 12th graders review famous quotes about success to help them get motivated to learn and be successful in the classroom. This assignment...

Students explore land use.  In this land instructional activity, students examine the use of land and land records.  They create a diagram of a specified piece of land and determine the area of the land.  Students discuss...

In this algebra worksheet, students analyze a comic strip and answer specific questions about it. There is an answer key with this problem.

Twelfth graders investigate the chain rule and use it to solve functions. In this calculus activity, 12th graders apply the chain rule to problems with powers, and product rule. They practice with lots of examples before doing it on...

Eighth graders investigate modern-dance choreographer Merce Cunningham's historically significant contribution to dance-making history. Specifically, 8th graders explore and practice Merce Cunningham's choreographic use of chance...

In this math worksheet, students solve the functions from the definition of Taylor polynomials of degree 4 centered at zero.

Students learn to identify numbers and to group objects in sets. The genre of artwork is used as a way of engaging students to develop this number skill. The creative project of making one's own hyperstudio card is made and this is where...

Young scholars engage in a lesson that is about an introduction to the course of calculus. They practice some of the basic concepts and solve some problems applying different principals of calculus. The teacher uses the sample problems...

Students explore the concept of adding and subtracting integers. In this integer lesson, students use strips of paper (various sizes) to add and subtract integers. Students visualize the process of adding and subtracting integers.

Biographies of Blacks in mathematics from the 1700s to the present time.