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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unit 8 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 5)

For Students 5th Standards
Reinforce math vocabulary with a set of flash cards. With a total of forty-eight cards, each are printed in bold font, and include definition cards that offer a labeled example. Terms include absolute value, ordered...
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Curated OER

Worksheet 1, Coordinate Graphing

For Teachers 10th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students determine the quadrant a given point is in. They find the midpoints of two line segments. Students plot points to form a triangle and find the distance between points. Students find the area of the...
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Curated OER

Angles in Standard Positions

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students identify positive and negative angles using the Unit Circle. In this pre-calculus lesson, students identify the different angles on a unit circle using the coordinate plane and the four different quadrants as a guide. They...
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Curated OER

5 Vector Geometry

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students imagine the way lines look. In this vector instructional activity, students recognize how to find a vector equation, Cartesian equation or perpendicular distance. Students find angles between planes. Students complete an...
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Curated OER

Perpendicular and Angle Bisectors

For Teachers 10th
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders solve problems that are based on the theorems associated with perpendicular and angle bisectors of a triangle.  An application on the coordinate plane is included.  The one page...
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Curated OER

Which Quadrilateral Is It?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars prove conjectures about geometric figures on the plane or in space using coordinate geometry. They develop fluency in operations with real numbers, vectors and matrices using mental computation or paper-and-pencil...
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Curated OER

The Spiraling Bug Problem

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students analyze the journey of a bug as it moves along a coordinate plane at a 90 degree angle. There is an answer key with problem.
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Curated OER

Finding the Measure of Segments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers observe and solve examples of betweenness, ruler postulate, and segment addition postulate. They complete the Finding the Measure of Segments worksheet using the distance formula.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unit 4 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 6)

For Students 6th Standards
Reinforce math vocabulary with a set of flash cards. Forty-eight cards offer boldly printed words, and their corresponding definition alongside an example with labels. Terms include absolute value, inverse operations, slope, and more! 
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Curated OER

Worksheet 31

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students investigate vectors and polar coordinates. They convert the paths of polar coordinates to Euclidian points.
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Curated OER

Quadrilateral Explorations-Grade Nine

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate quadrilaterals.  In this geometry activity, 9th graders examine and classify quadrilaterals using the slope, midpoint and distance formulas.  Additionally, students create various quadrilaterals given...
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Curated OER

Three D Constellations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars address a major misconception in astronomy, the understanding of scale. The activity is designed to introduce students to both celestial coordinates and to the first rung on the distance determination ladder, parallax.
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Curated OER

Conic Sections

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students explore the different properties of conics. In this algebra lesson, students calculate the midpoint of a line, the distances between two points as they get ready to find the focus and directrix in eclipse and other conics. They...
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Curated OER

Human Face of Mathematics - Mathematics in Aboriginal Culture

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students collect statistical data.  In groups, students play a dart game and then determine the distance between darts.  They collect the data and plot the information on a coordinate plane.  They identify the mean and the...
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Curated OER

Olympic Line Graphs

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine how to make line graphs.  In this Olympic line graph lesson students make line graphs and search the given Internet sites to find data on their summer Olympic Game. 
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Bloodstain Pattern Doesn't Lie......

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
An interesting instructional activity on hypothesizing about the diameter of a drop of blood that is splattered. To test their theories, learners work in groups to make blood droplets splatter from different heights. They use graphed...
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Curated OER

Data

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students collect data from an experiment they perform. For this data lesson, students use multiple representations to solve practical problems; describe advantages and disadvantages of the use of each representation. Then, they evaluate...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Introducing the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice using estimation. In this estimation lesson, 5th graders add, subtract, multiple, and divide using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Students decide upon instances when estimation is more appropriate than...
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Geophysical Institute

Latitude and Longitude with Google Earth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Travel the world from the comfort of your classroom with a lesson that features Google Earth. High schoolers follow a series of steps to locate places all over the earth with sets of coordinates. Additionally, they measure the distance...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unit 8 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 4)

For Students 4th
Enhance fourth graders' math vocabulary with 17 word cards and their definitions. Learners focus on terms that deal with graphing, such as y-axis, coordinates, plot, and ordered pair in the last set of math vocabulary cards. 
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Illustrative Mathematics

Walk-a-thon 2

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
During a walk-a-thon your learners must determine the walking rate of Julianna's progress. Using tables, graphs, and an equation, they must be able to calculate the time it took her to walk one mile and predict her distance based on the...
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Curated OER

Race The Rapper: Slopes

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students calculate the slope of the equation In this algebra lesson, students graph coordinate pairs of linear equations and identify the relationship between x and y values and slope.  They differentiate between functions and...
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Curated OER

"If You Hopped Like a Frog" by David M. Schwartz

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students search for and generalize an algebraic pattern. They make and analyze a coordinate graph.
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Curated OER

Are We Sure They Are Parallel?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the definition and properties of parallel lines. This high level lesson has students calculate the slope of the two parallel lines, and draw the lines on a Caretsian coordinate system.