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Let's Get it There Fast
Are planes the best shipping method? Using maps, pupils determine the fastest mode of transportation between two cities. Given a list of items to ship, groups decide the best shipping method to finish the 18th segment of a 22-part unit.
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Digestible Computers
Students examine the pros and cons of 'embedded computing' in the field of medicine. They invent and describe a computer that would be embedded in an individual to improve their education or school and write essays critiquing their...
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March of the Dividing Ant
Students inspect divisibility rules. In this divisibility rules instructional activity, students study the relationship between factorization and the divisibility rules for 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10. Students read One Hundred Hungry Ants and...
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Using High Stakes Testing to Make Students and Schools Accountable for Learning
Learners conduct an informal survey about their views on high stakes testing and use basic computation skills to evaluate results as a group. They participate in activities related to high stakes testing and "No Child Left Behind"...
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Simple Addition Using Hundredths 2
In this addition with decimal tenths practice worksheet, students practice their computation skills as they solve 40 problems that require them to add 3 or 4-digit decimal numbers.
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Math Jeopardy
This math review PowerPoint jeopardy game quizzes students on the concepts of time, money and computation skills. This PowerPoint has varying problems ranging in difficulty. Students must choose a question and solve it for the most points.
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Math Mammoth End of the Year Test--Grade 1
In this first grade math assessment activity, 1st graders complete 22 math problems based on the topics that were taught in first grade. The topics include telling time, solving word problems and addition and subtraction computation skills.
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Challenge Discussion Sheet 8
In this differential worksheet, students compute the rate a boat is approaching a dock when given the height and length of a rope. They find the rate the angle formed when a rocket is launched at given distances above the ground....
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Discussion Sheet 10: Convergence
In this convergence learning exercise, students compute improper integrals. They use the comparison test or the absolute convergence test to prove convergence. Students find the area of a region bounded by graphs. This one-page...
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Discussion Sheet 3: Function
For this function worksheet, students compute functions, classify critical points and determine the absolute extrema for an indicated region. This one-page worksheet contains approximately nine multi-step problems.
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Discussion Sheet 9
In this math worksheet, students determine the convergence and divergence for each series using the test that is indicated. They also compute the partial sum and determine the error.
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Discussion Sheet 2: Domain and Range
In this domain and range worksheet, students determine the domain and range of a function, compute the limits of a function, and use the intermediate value theorem to verify that an equation is solvable. This one-page worksheet contains...
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Discussion Sheet 4: Limits & Differentiation
In this limits and differentiation worksheet, students use the limit definition of a derivative to compute functions, and differentiate functions. They determine the geometric significance of values and identify the sketch of a...
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Discussion Sheet 9: Functions and Limits
In this function and limits activity, students identify a one-to-one correspondence and identify an inverse function. They compute limits of functions. This two-page activity contains five multi-step problems.
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Computing Indefinite Integrals
Provide your students with a framework for introducing indefinite integrals. It takes into account a learner’s prior knowledge of slope fields and definite integrals and uses the notion of an antiderivative to give them an intuitive...
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Math computation
The lesson says it is intended for 4th grade but it is suitable for grades 1-3 as well. The class discusses what it means to add, the commutative property of addition, and mathematical reasoning. This is an exercise in number sense,...
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Slowly But Surely
The US mint has created this fabulous lesson plan, which practices language arts and mathematics skills. Learners will use the provided worksheets and step-by-step instructions to experiment with different sentence structures, use...
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Subtracting Fractions - Unequal Denominators
Subtracting fractions that have unequal denominators is a tricky process. The lesson utilizes fraction bars as a manipulative, in order to understand subtracting fractions and estimating differences. After completing three activities in...
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Perfumania
Students identify various geometric shapes. Apply the given formulas to determine the volume of these shapes. Design their own container to conform to specifications provided. Use their knowledge of volume formulas and shapes to compute...
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Making Money and Spreading the Flu!
Paper folding, flu spreading in a school, bacteria growth, and continuously compounded interest all provide excellent models to study exponential functions. This is a comprehensive resource that looks at many different aspects of...
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Listing Fractions in Increasing Size
Increase the depth of your class's fractional number sense with this number-ordering activity. Given four fractions, each with different numerators and denominators, young learners are asked to place them in order from smallest to...
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Task: Grain Storage
Farming is full of mathematics, and it provides numerous real-world examples for young mathematicians to study. Here, we look at a cylinder-shaped storage silo that has one flat side. Given certain dimensions, students need to determine...
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Energy Content of Foods
Why do athletes load up on carbohydrates the evening before a competition? The lesson helps answer this question as it relates the type of food to the amount of energy it contains. After a discussion, scholars perform an experiment...
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Linear Computational Circuitry
In this electrical worksheet, learners draw a schematic design circuit board to grasp the understanding amplification in linear circuitry before answering a series of 35 open-ended questions pertaining to a variety of linear circuitry....