Curated OER
Curriculum Plan for Vietnam Study Abroad Project
Students compare and contrast the education system in Vietnam and Michigan. They study activities being addressed in changing Vietnam's education system and create presentations to demonstrate their understanding.
Curated OER
Pizza Toppings 2
Students explore possible combinations of items. They devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically. They examine using linear and quadratic patterns to solve combination problems. From a given...
Curated OER
Robot Rover
Students will work in teams of 2 to read and discuss a case study. In this probability lesson, students will learn the formula for finding the probability of two events occurring together. Students will learn the meaning of independent...
Curated OER
Wing Specifications
Ninth graders use FoilSim to fulfill the specifications of a given airfoil (wing) and plot and interpret graphs.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Teaching Guide: Intro to Js Resizing With Variable Expressions
A teaching guide for the Intro to JS lesson on Resizing with variable expressions.
Other
Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System: Using Expressions and Equations
This lesson provides learners with opportunities to practice writing equivalent equations and expressions for finding perimeter and patterns on a calendar. It also gives extension and remediation ideas as well as related instructional...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Working With Expressions and Equations Part 2
Sixth graders use substitution to find the values of equations and expressions they wrote using appropriate math symbols.
Other
Nearpod: Solving Linear Equations in One Variable
In this activity, 8th graders will learn how to solve linear equations in one variable including equations with one solution, no solution, and infinite solutions.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Equivalent Expressions
In this problem, we have to transform expressions using the distributive, commutative and associative properties to decide which expressions are equivalent. Common mistakes are addressed, such as not distributing the 2 correctly. Aligns...
Khan Academy
Khan: Lsn 12: Exponential Functions, Equations, Expressions and Radicals
Lesson 2 of 4 for Passport to Advanced Math. Students will build quadratic and exponential functions that model a given context; solve radical equations; work with rational expressions, including fractions with a variable in the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Triangular Tables
This task provides a good opportunity for group work and class discussions where students generate and compare equivalent expressions. In class discussion, students should be asked to connect the terms of an expression with quantities...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Distance to School
This task asks young scholars to find equivalent expressions by visualizing a familiar activity involving distance. The given solution shows some possible equivalent expressions, but there are many variations possible. Aligns with 6.EE.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Busy Day
This problem can be solved using simple arithmetical reasoning but is also naturally represented by a simple equation. Thus, it provides a good entry point for students into representing quantities in contexts with variables and...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.3.a and a sse.a.2: Cubic Identity
This task presents a challenging exercise in both algebraic manipulations and seeing structure in algebraic expressions. Aligns with A-SSE.B.3.a and A-SSE.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.3: Ice Cream
This task illustrates the process of rearranging the terms of an expression to reveal different aspects about the quantity it represents. Aligns with A-SSE.B.3.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Apr Egyptian Fractions Ii
In this task, young scholars will rewrite fractions as a sum of distinct unit fractions. To solve the problem, students will rewrite a simple rational expression and will need to study the arithmetic of these unit fractions with a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Are We Alike?
Sixth graders combine like terms and simplify expressions with multiple terms and variables.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Increasing or Decreasing? Variation 1
This task asks students to examine an expression that has a denominator represented by the addition of two fractions. Each of those fractions has a denominator that is a variable. They are asked to analyze the structure of the expression...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Animal Populations
In this task, students have to interpret expressions involving two variables in the context of a real-world problem about animal populations. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1, A-SSE.A.1.a, and A-SSE.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.1: Planes and Wheat
This is an exercise in creating equations from a situation with many variables. By giving three different scenarios, learners will be reviewing their definitions of the variables to emphasize the importance of defining variables when...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Seeing Dots
The purpose of this task is to identify the structure in the two algebraic expressions by interpreting them in terms of a geometric context, a series of squares filled with dot arrangements. Students are asked to notice a pattern and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Calendar Fun Operations
This activity is designed to help students evaluate numerical expressions by using order of operations. The students will be provided a calendar for the current month of the year. Students will then be provided with a worksheet that...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Sum of Even and Odd
In this task, young scholars use the structure of an expression to find ways to rewrite it. They are asked to use the defining property of even and odd functions to manipulate expressions involving function notation and to see the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Quadrupling Leads to Halving
This question provides students with an opportunity to see expressions as constructed out of a sequence of operations: first taking the square root of a denominator, then dividing the result of that operation into the numerator. Aligns...