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New York City Department of Education

Designing Euclid’s Playground

For Teachers 10th Standards
Create a geometric playground. Pupils work through a performance task to demonstrate their ability to use geometric concepts to solve everyday problems. The accompanying engineering design lessons show teachers how the assessment works...
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University of California

Euclidean Geometry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Go back to where it all began! Investigate how axiomatic systems and Euclidean geometry are based on undefined terms, common notions, postulates, and propositions by examining passages from Euclid's Elements. (Social studies teachers...
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Bowland

Alien Invasion

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Win the war of the worlds! Scholars solve a variety of problems related to an alien invasion. They determine where spaceships have landed on a coordinate map, devise a plan to avoid the aliens, observe the aliens, and break a code to...
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National Security Agency

What’s Your Coordinate?

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Your middle schoolers will show what they know with their bodies when they become the coordinate plane in this conceptual development unit. Starting with the characteristics of the coordinate plane, learners develop their skills by...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Is Math Discovered or Invented?

For Students 9th - 10th
Would mathematics exist if people didn't? Did we create mathematical concepts to help us understand the world around us, or is math the native language of the universe itself? Jeff Dekofsky traces some famous arguments in this ancient...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Measurement: Greater Than or Less Than a Yard?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to compare the lengths of everyday objects to one yard and state whether they are longer or shorter. Includes video...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Objects Longer Than a Foot or a Yard

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to compare the lengths of everyday objects to a foot or a yard and state whether they are longer or shorter. Includes...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Movie Theater: Numbers to 9999

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario. Those skills include using words to show four-digit numbers, putting numbers in ascending order, and relating large numbers to everyday life.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Multiplying Fractions

For Students 5th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario on a fishing boat. Those skills include using everyday percentages as fractions and decimals, and multiplying simple fractions by whole numbers.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Market Place: Measurement: Temperatures

For Students 3rd - 4th
On this interactive site students learn to link temperature to everyday life and read informal scales on a thermometer.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Math of Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
Students study the relationship of mathematics and physics in this interactive learning module. Activities include readings, practice problems, and interactive self check questions.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Halloween: Everyday Decimals

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
On this interactive site students learn how to show measurments in decimal notation, subtract decimal numbers, and divide or multiply decimal numbers by 10, 100 or 1000.
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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Percent and Fractions: Ratio and Proportion

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Inter Math: Regular Polygon

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a description of regular polygons along with visual representations of several polygons. There are links to related terms, everyday examples, challenging problems, more information, and the interactive check point...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Cyberchase: Collection

For Students K - 1st
Cyberchase is the Emmy-winning animated series full of math and environmental adventures. It features three diverse kids, known as The CyberSquad, who use brain power and problem solving skills to outwit and outsmart the villain Hacker...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A Performance of "Mathemagic"

For Students 9th - 10th
Arthur Benjamin talks about mathematical quandries in our everyday lives. See if these have any effect on how you feel about math.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Prove a Mathematical Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore mathematical proofs and how they are used in our everyday life with this animated video. [4:39]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What's an Algorithm?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An algorithm is a method of solving problems both big and small. Though computers run algorithms constantly, humans can also solve problems with algorithms. David J. Malan explains how algorithms can be used in seemingly simple...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Finding Patterns to Make Predictions

For Students 6th - 8th
Make predictions then explore the patterns found in everyday objects like stairs. This interactive exercise focuses on developing an equation to represent a mathematical rule and working with virtual manipulatives to visualize a concept,...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: What Is Statistics?

For Students 9th - 10th
A video presentation covering the history and evolution of statistics, as well as this area of math's link to our everyday world. View simple examples, including the application of statistics in the business world. [28:36]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Pizza Physics (New York Style)

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the physics involved in folding a pizza slice in order to reduce the mess while eating. [3:58]

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