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The Twelve Days of Christmas

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students purchase gift items and practice collecting, analyzing, computing, and recording information. For this data lesson plan, students also complete money equivalent activities.
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The Sum of All Angles

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students add up the different angles using the angle addition postulate. For this geometry lesson, students differentiate between interior and exterior angles. They calculate the different angles for triangles and use proof to show their...
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Probability and Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students are taught to search the internet for statistics concepts on sports. In this probability lesson, students collect data and use the calculator to graph and analyze their data. They graph and make predictions about sports using...
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Global Harmony

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars listen to world music samples and try to identify the countries of origin; students work in small groups to design an online "world music caf??."
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Birds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils study birds and examine the idea that they evolved from reptiles or dinosaurs.  In this birds lesson students divide into groups and research one side of the debate, then at the end have the pupils debate each-other. 
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Inscribed Angles

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students analyze inscribed angles and intercepted arcs and explore the relationships between the two. They investigate the properties of angles, arcs, chords, tangents, and secants to solve problems involving circles.
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Parabola with Horizontal Directrix

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students find the vertex, directrix, and focus of a parabola. They graph parabolic functions and solve application problems involving parabalas.
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Parabola With Horizontal Directrix

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Young scholars find the vertex, directrix, and focus of a parabola and graph parabolic functions. They solve problems involving parabolas after a demonstration lesson plan by the teacher.
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2 X 2 Linear Systems

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students solve 2 X 2 systems using graphing and algebraic methods.
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Problem Solving in Mathematics

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discover that there are multiple strategies to be used in problem solving. They explain a problem solving situation in their own words and determine a possible strategy for solving the problem.
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Are You Absolutely Sure of the Value?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders develop an examineing of absolute value through real world situations. They develop an examineing of when absolute value can be used in a given situation.
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What Happens on Average

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to convergence of sequences based on averaging previous terms in the sequence. The power of the "fill-down" function in spreadsheets is exploited. By using various starting numbers, and inferring the limit,...
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Exploring Centers of a Triangle: Part 1

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students use problem solving skills, formal geometry, and The Geometer?s Sketchpad. They model and solve two real-world problems by constructing the in center and circumcenter of triangles.
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Exploring Geometric Constructions of Parabolas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are introduced to the construction geometrically of parabolas. Using a software program, they identify lines, segments and midpoints. They label the parabolas properties and characteristics and use a formula to determine the...
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Minerals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the concept of minerals. In this minerals lesson, students discuss how cooling affects the size of crystals. Students discuss how the structure of minerals is a tetrahedron. Students discuss the structure of silicates...
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Creating Polygons

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students describe, make and compare polygons. In this creating polygons instructional activity, students identify properties of quadrilaterals and describe common features of two dimensional shapes.
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Why is Roosevelt on the Dime?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners use a variety of reference resources to research the life of Franklin Roosevelt. From this research, they determine why his image was chosen to appear on the dime.
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Curveball vs. Fastball

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners graph the relationship between the release point and the final position of curveballs and fastballs thrown by both right and left handers given a constant speed, and explain the relationships illustrated by the graphs of data.
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The Baseball and Air

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Pupils use Curveball to complete the activity to determine how the speed of airstreams changes in relation to changes in the distance of the airstream from the center of the baseball.
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Lift vs. Airspeed

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners, after reading the explanation given below, use FoilSim and a graphing calculator to complete the activity to determine the relationship between airspeed and lift of an object by interpreting data.
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Expected Value

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore expected value, are introduced to the concept of varying payoffs, and have used a computer simulation of a "real world" example where expected value is used
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Statistics and Shopping

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine statistics and data analysis concepts from the practical questions that arise in everyday life.
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Age Structure Studies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students collect data from Internet sources to compare age distributions in their city, county or state with that of other places in the US or other countries. They construct and interpret age-structure population pyramids and research...
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Newton's Second Law: Mass-Acceleration Relationship with Dynamics Carts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students form their own hypothesis about the relationships between force, mass, and acceleration for their dynamics cart system. They collect data and express it in a graphical format to visualize the relationships.

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