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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Shapes - Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Extend scholars' learning experience with a unit consisting of five shape lesson plans, an extension activity, assessment, and rubric. Begin by reading a story about shapes, then conduct an overview and assign pupils' their first...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Factoring Extended to the Complex Realm

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A solution will work one way or another: find solutions, or use solutions to find the function. Learners use polynomial identities to factor polynomials with complex solutions. They then use solutions and the Zero Product Property to...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Awkward! Who Chose the Number 360, Anyway?

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Don't give your classes the third degree. Use radians instead! While working with degrees, learners find that they are not efficient and explore radians as an alternative. They convert between the two measures and use radians with the...
Activity
Smithsonian Institution

What's the Code? Coding Robot Movements Using Sound

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Tap into the desire to learn about computer codes. Pupils apply the Tap Code and the Polybius Square to send secret codes using sound. They design a code that tells a robot what movements to make and then test out their code using one of...
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Curated OER

Secret Formulas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners calculate the perimeter of rectangles and squares. They imagine trying to build a fence around a yard or trying to determine how much paint they need to paint a room. They also develop formulas and procedures for determining the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dividing Whole Numbers by the Power of Ten

For Teachers 5th Standards
Knowing how to properly place the decimal point when dividing by powers of ten is an important skill. Here is a instructional activity which should give your learners a good understanding of this technique. One nice thing about the...
Organizer
Curated OER

The Gender of Nouns

For Students 6th - 9th
Yes, a puzzle! Kids of all ages love completing puzzles, even if they're linked to work. This grid focuses on the definite articles el, la, los, or las. For each of about 40 nouns listed, pupils must find the appropriate square and shade...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Working with Squares Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
In this square number worksheet, students find the squares of 20 numbers. They complete the eworksheets online, save them, or print them out.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Dihybrid Cross Punnett Squares

For Students 9th - 12th
In this dihybrid cross worksheet, students complete two punnett squares for the cross of two traits. They determine the genotypes, phenotypes and phenotypic ratios of the offspring.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Magic Squares

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this magic squares instructional activity, students add up the sum of the rows, columns, and diagonals to see if they are all the same and write the magic number. Students complete 4 magic squares.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Story Summaries; The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore language arts by completing a graphic organizer in class. In this story structure lesson, students read the classic tale "The Three Little Pigs" and discuss the main characters, conflict and setting. Learners complete a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tiling the Plaza (Geometry)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make patterns with a variety of pattern blocks. Pupils experiment with making tile designs using only one shape by rotating that shape around a point. They enter a contest for creating the best tile design for the new plaza...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Canyons: Magic Square Activity

For Teachers 7th - 9th
A fan of magic squares vocabulary activities? Readers use terms drawn from Gary Paulsen’s Canyons to complete an exercise. The worksheet, an answer sheet, as well as complete directions for crafting a magic square, are included.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Walk Two Moons: Magic Square Vocabulary Assignment

For Students 7th - 9th
Readers work alone or in groups on complete a vocabulary exercise designed to be used with Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons. Using the magic square format, learners match the vocabulary words with their definitions. An answer sheet is...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Distributive Property

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use a visual to introduce the Distributive Property. The lesson is chronologically numbered and follows a distinct plan. The class works with the teacher to complete the lesson. The plan is not written in a traditional way, but...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve 16 problems involving imaginary numbers. In the first three, students find the square root of 3 negative numbers in terms of i. Nine problems involve addition, subtraction, multiplication and...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Magic Squares #2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this magic squares activity, students complete 4 squares whose sums of rows, columns and diagonals must be the same. Answers on page 2.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Square Shape

For Students K - 1st
In this recognizing the shape of squares worksheet, students trace a square, color the squares on a picture of a house, and draw a square. Students complete 5 activities.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Quick Tables And Square Numbers (pg. 2)

For Students 4th - 5th
In this square numbers worksheet, students complete 7 word problems with the square roots and 24 problems squaring numbers.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Addition squares

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this addition squares worksheet, students add the lines of the square to equal the sum at the end of the square. Students complete 5 squares.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Addition Squares #5

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition squares activity, students fill in the squares with sums that are correct on the right side and at the bottom. Students complete 5 squares.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Addition Squares #3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition squares worksheet, students fill in the squares so the sums are correct on the right side and at the bottom. Students complete 5 problems.
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EngageNY

Radicals and Conjugates

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Make the irrational rational again! Continuing the theme from previous lessons in the series, the lesson relates the polynomial identity difference of squares to conjugates. Learners develop the idea of a conjugate through analysis and...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Sequence of Partial Sums: Partial Sums

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Have some fun building squares out of triangles. Pupils investigate the partial sums of odd numbers. Using the sum of the first four odd numbers, learners see that it can be rewritten as a sum containing a triangular number. Simplifying...

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