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Yum Yum Cereal
Design an efficient cereal box. Scholars use set volume criteria to design a cereal box by applying their knowledge of surface area to determine the cost to create the box. They then determine whether their designs will fit on...
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Summer Olympics
Quickly get to the decimal point. The last assessment in a nine-part series requires scholars to work with decimals. Pupils compare the race times of several athletes and calculate how much they have improved over time. During the second...
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Cady's Cats
How much can a cat eat? The five-question fraction assessment asks pupils to determine the fractional portion of a food box eaten by cats. Learners show their proficiency in adding and subtracting fractions using several scenarios...
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Colorful Data
Scale up your lessons with a performance task. Young data analysts work through an assessment task on scaled bar graphs. They answer questions about a given scaled bar graph on favorite colors, analyze a bar graph to see if it matches...
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Perceived Risks
Students rank a list of everyday risks to compare with classmates. They rate each risk on both its ability to be controlled and its observability in the environment. Results are graphed.
Illustrative Mathematics
Calculating the square root of 2
Does a calculator give you the exact value of the square root of 2? Here, learners must decide if 1.414236 is equal to the square root of 2. They must also explain why the square root of 2 could never be equal to a terminating decimal....
NASA
Lights on the International Space Station
Groups explore illumination with NASA's Lighting Environment Test Facility (LETF) as a context. Using the TI-Nspire app, groups determine the lux equation that models their simulation. They then use the lux equation to...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Maximizing Profits: Selling Boomerangs
You'll return to this resource again .. .and again ... and again. Class members determine the maximum profit of a boomerang-making business by solving a system of equations. They then review and analyze provided sample responses to...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Comparing Lines and Linear Equations
Scholars first complete an assessment task on writing linear equations to model and solve a problem on a running race. They then take part in a card matching activity where they match equations and graphs of lines to diagrams of fluid...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Building and Solving Linear Equations
Young scholars write and solve linear equations in one variable based on descriptions of the operations that are applied to the unknown variable in an algebra machine. They then create their own problems for classmates to solve.
Federal Reserve Bank
Lesson 4: Back to School
Based on your current level of human capital, how long would it take you to earn $1,000,000? What about your potential human capital? Learners explore the importance of education and experience when entering the workforce, and compare...
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Impossible Graphs
Students practice plotting functions on the Cartesian coordinate plane while participating in a discussion about the Possible Or Not worksheet/activity. Students also use the Impossible Graphs worksheet to practice reading a graph,...
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Calcium Counts
Pupils evaluate the food pyramid. In this dairy nutrition instructional activity, students identify the position of the milk group on the food pyramid, then determine their daily calcium requirement and how they can meet that requirement.
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Mr. Payne Word Search Puzzle
In this language arts worksheet, learners study 10 words in a word bank, then locate them in a word search puzzle. The words appear to be related to algebra; the meaning of the title is not known. There is one misspelled word in the word...
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Basic Algebra - Lesson 4 Order of Operations
Ninth graders study the correct way to solve equations using the order of operations. They apply a mnemonic device to remember the proper order.
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Order of Operations: PEMDAS
In this order of operations instructional activity, students solve 10 problems using concepts of PEMDAS. Answers and hints are available on-line; a reference web site for additional resources is given.
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Order of Operations
In this order of operations worksheet, students complete problems where they use order of operations using parenthesis and exponents in problems. Students complete 10 problems total.
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Order of Operations
In this order of operations worksheet, students complete problems containing parenthesis, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students complete 10 problems.
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Order of Operations: PEMDAS
In this order of operations worksheet, learners read the PEMDAS rules and then complete a 15 question online interactive quiz.
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Best lesson in the whole world!
Students study the concept of fraction using mathematical reasoning. In this problem solving fraction lesson, students use various methods to explain their reasoning in solving fractions. Students use a number of different prompts to...
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Order of Operations 2
In this order of operations worksheet, students complete problems containing parenthesis, addition, and subtraction. Students complete 10 problems.
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Order of Operations - parenthesis, multiplication, division
For this order of operations worksheet, students complete problems containing parenthesis, multiplication, and division. Students complete 12 problems.
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Order of Calculating
In this order of operations learning exercise, students analyze 4 problems and indicate if the answers are right or wrong. Students then solve 10 order of operations problems. No exponents or parentheses are used. Students may be...
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Chapter 1 - Objective 4.1 Order of Operations
In this order of operations activity, students solve problems containing the basic operations, fractions and exponents. This one-page activity contains ten problems.