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Bon Voyage Math
Sixth graders investigate the cost of throwing a party. In this cost of throwing a party lesson, 6th graders have to throw a going away party for 2 exchange students given a $350 budget. Students work in groups to determine...
TryEngineering
Choose Your Best Way
Find the best path through town. The lesson teaches future computer programmers about networks and paths in graph theory. They develop a network of their towns to determine the most efficient path to visit each of their homes.
Curated OER
Thanksgiving Internet Math Fun
In this Thanksgiving Internet math fun worksheet, students interactively choose from 16 different activities with links to other websites, all with a Thanksgiving and math theme.
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Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations
Young scholars observe that there are myriad combinations of rhythms to choose from when improvising jazz and blues music, and recognize that while the variations seem infinite, they are in fact finite. They notate a 12 bar blues...
Curated OER
Math Word Problems
For this problem solving worksheet, students solve six multiple choice word problems that involve finding probability and identifying monetary amounts.
Noyce Foundation
Pizza Crusts
Enough stuffed crust to go around. Pupils calculate the area and perimeter of a variety of pizza shapes, including rectangular and circular. Individuals design rectangular pizzas with a given area to maximize the amount of crust and do...
Inside Mathematics
Graphs (2006)
When told to describe a line, do your pupils list its color, length, and which side is high or low? Use a worksheet that engages scholars to properly label line graphs. It then requests two applied reasoning answers.
Teach Engineering
About Accuracy and Approximation
How accurate are robots? Groups draw lines by moving robots backwards and forwards by one rotation of the wheels. Using the appropriate formula, they determine the percent error in the length of the lines in relation to the calculated...
Noyce Foundation
Percent Cards
Explore different representations of numbers. Scholars convert between fractions, decimals, and percents, and then use these conversions to plot the values on a horizontal number line.
Inside Mathematics
Marble Game
Pupils determine the theoretical probability of winning a game of marbles. Individuals compare the theoretical probability to experimental probability for the same game. They continue on to compare two different probability games.
EngageNY
Fraction Multiplication and the Products of Decimals
Class members come up with a hypothesis on the number of decimal digits in the product of two decimals. Learners work in groups to complete several decimal multiplication problems. The results help groups develop a conjecture on the...
Noyce Foundation
Lawn Mowing
This is how long we mow the lawn together. The assessment requires the class to work with combining ratios and proportional reasoning. Pupils determine the unit rate of mowers and calculate the time required to mow a lawn if they work...
Curated OER
Least Squares
In this least squares learning exercise, students solve 6 different problems that include the least squares of numbers. First, they plot 3 points on the axes shown and draw in their best approximating line. Then, students estimate the...
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Numerical Analysis: Polynomials
In this polynomial worksheet, students explore functions, determine the least square error, and explore quadratic spline interpolation. This two-page worksheet contains approximately six problems.
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Explanation of Optimal A
In this math worksheet, students examine the concept of optimal A and solve a problem using the example. They find the error in the rounding.
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Math A Regents Questions: Quadratic Equations
In this quadratic equations worksheet, students solve 2 short answer questions. Students write and solve quadratic equations given a quadratic word problem.
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Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations
Learners explore the various rhythmic combinations in jazz and blues music. They watch a video segment, apply a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible rhythmic combinations, and perform a combination of notes and...
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Paul Bunyan - A Folktale Full of Math
Sixth graders solve math problems from a folktale story. In this solving math problems from a folktale story lesson, 6th graders read the Paul Bunyan folktale. Students determine today's cost of the meals that Paul Bunyan...
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Finding Area and Perimeter in a Miniature House Using Standardized Units
Students explore the concept of area and perimeter. In this area and perimeter lesson, students construct miniature houses. Students determine the area and perimeter of their model in order to buy glue, carpet, and wall paper.
Teach Engineering
Energy and the Pogo Stick
Let your class bounce to examine the concept elastic potential energy. Individuals bounce on a pogo stick in order to calculate its elastic potential energy. Groups then compare the elastic potential energy to the gravitational...
Balanced Assessment
Confetti Crush
In the first part of a middle school assessment task, learners analyze a given statement about the amount of confetti revelers throw at Times Square on New Year's Eve. The second part of the task requires learners to identify objects...
Curated OER
Shapes to Forms
Here is a math lesson that is really a visual arts lesson in disguise! In it, pupils utilize their knowledge of geometric shapes and forms to create a detailed version of a cylinder. The instructions on how to go about the task are very...
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Addition
Those are some big addends! Challenge students to find the sum of 16 equations, each of which has at least three addends. They are adding, two, three, and four-digit numbers here, and regrouping is a given. Two example problems offer...
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Confidence Intervals: Population Mean; Population standard Deviation Known
In this confidence interval worksheet, learners examine a given confidence level and sample data to determine the margin of error, identify a confidence interval, list the mean and give the standard deviation. Students complete seven...