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Better Lesson: Area and Perimeter Review Using Legos

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
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...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Area (Elementary)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
In this lesson students will practice finding the area of rectangular shapes and irregular shapes with right angles and understand why the area formula works for rectangular shapes. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.5.b A plane figure which can...
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Better Lesson: Rewriting Formulas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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OnlineMathLearning.com

Online Math Learning: Multiply a Vector by a Matrix

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Examples, solutions, videos, and lessons to help students learn how to multiply a vector (regarded as a matrix with one column) by a matrix of suitable dimensions to produce another vector. Work with matrices as transformations of...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Linear Quadratic Systems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Resources to use when planning instruction on linear-quadratic systems. Find lessons on solving systems algebraically and graphically, a practice quiz with solutions, and a worksheet through which students investigate and solve systems.
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Better Lesson: Using Models to Add and Subtract

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Common Core standards encourage the use of models to build understanding in math. This lesson shows sometimes reluctant 2nd graders that models are helpful tools in solving mathematical problems.
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Better Lesson: Our Understanding of Numbers

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson is an informal assessment of student understanding of the base ten system, a critical area in the Common Core.
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Better Lesson: Multiplying With Fractions

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will use their understanding of multiplying fractions and apply it to dividing fractions which is a key component in common core. Included in this lesson are a closing activity, a link to a website for area models, and a...
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Better Lesson: Time and Money

For Teachers 2nd Standards
As the result of a Unit assessment, it was found that students showed some confusion with writing time and with adding sets of coins. These skills need to be reviewed to aid in mastery of the Common Core standards for time and money.
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Better Lesson: Moving Along in Hundreds

For Teachers 2nd Standards
The Common Core standard is that students understand that the numbers 100, 200, etc. represent so many groups of 100.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Complex Numbers: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides an in-depth lesson on complex numbers. You learn about simplifying, adding, and multiplying complex numbers by viewing example problems that are worked through step-by-step. Continue on to pages 2 and 3 which...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Exploring Cavalieri's Principle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students use the geometry program GeoGebra to explore Cavalieri's Principle, specifically to investigate whether it applies when calculating the volume of oblique solids. Lesson includes...
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Better Lesson: Simulations Can You Design an Experiment?

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders will be able to design and conduct their own simulation to determine the probability of an event.
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Homeschool Math

Homeschool Math: Fraction Multiplication and Area

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
This fifth-grade lesson explores the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths. We tile the rectangle with unit rectangles and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths. We multiply...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Multiplying Matrices by a Scalar

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers multiplying matrices by a scalar number. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice and attempt practice problems.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Trigonometry: Introduction to the Triangle Area Formula

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers how to find the area of a triangle using sine.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Dilation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students explore geometric dilations. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice problems.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Asa and Aas Triangle Congruence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students prove two triangles are congruent with the Angle-Side-Angle and Angle-Angle-Side shortcuts. Students examine guided notes, review guided...
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Better Lesson: Comparing Temperatures

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders should be able to recognize what makes one number greater or smaller than another, using place value understanding which is crucial to Common Core mastery. This lesson plan combines math and science by having students...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Proportionality

For Teachers 7th Standards
This lesson plan explores how to recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Solving Linear Systems Using Matrices and Technology

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers using a graphing calculator and matrices to solve a system of equations.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Going in Circles Inscribed Angles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson has students discover properties of inscribed angles in a circle. Students use the Geometer's Sketchpad application for the TI-89 to construct a circle and an inscribed angle.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Go Fishing for Positive and Negative Integers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson will actively engage students in a fishing tournament that uses ordered pairs to catch fish. As students begin to catch the hidden fish, they will find a relationship between the integers in the ordered pairs. By identifying...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Factor Quadratics: Factorization of Quadratic Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to factor quadratic expressions. Includes examples, videos, review exercises, and a quiz.