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Measure Mania

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Groups of learners rotate through five classroom stations to estimate, measure, and record volume, length, weight, mass, and area using both customary and metric measure. They evaluate their data to determine how close their estimates...
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Area of Solids

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students find the area of rectangular solids and cylinders by cutting them into flat pieces and adding the areas.
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Cube Models

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders are introduced to the concepts of area and volume. In groups, they work together to build models of square centimeters in which they are given no instructions. To end the lesson, they record the dimensions of each model...
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Optional Laboratory: Calculating Board Footage in a Tree

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers work together to complete an experiment calculating the amount of board footage in a tree. They record their data and answer questions at the end of the lesson. They create their own hypothesis as well.
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The Geometry of Means

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this geometry worksheet, students are given a rectangle and a square. They verify ratios when given equal perimeters or areas. Students are given adjacent squares. They find the distance between the centers, and identify the means...
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Sudoku Puzzle: Logs and Exponentials

For Students 11th - 12th
In this logarithms and exponential worksheet, students solve 29 multiple choice problems.  Students use their answers to solve a sudoku puzzle.
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Virginia Department of Education

Order Up!

For Teachers 6th Standards
Order in the math class! Scholars learn to evaluate expressions using the order of operations. A game has them rolling number cubes to determine numbers to use when evaluating.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Polygon Perimeters

For Teachers 3rd Standards
What are polygons? Learners find the perimeter of various geometric figures that the teacher has drawn in chalk on the sidewalk. A worksheet to record their measurements is provided. Get your third graders outside and exploring the world...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Making Cubes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore vocabulary associated with three dimensional figures.  In this transformations lesson, 3rd graders create two dimensional nets for three dimensional figures.  Students become familiar with describing two...
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Challenge: Into the Pool

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
On this area and perimeter worksheet, designers use a diagram of a Koi pool with its surrounding walkway surrounding and the appropriate mathematical formulas to solve a set of four word problems. An answer key follows the worksheet.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Length and Perimeter

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore tessellations and the spatial concepts used in creating them.  In this tessellations lesson plan, 3rd graders rotate, reflect and transform shapes to create tessellations.  Students become familiar with...
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Solve Word Problems with Geometry

For Students 7th - 12th
In this geometry worksheet, students solve word problems having to do with lines, angles, shapes, area, perimeter, and more. Students complete 57 problems total.
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Multiplying Polynomials

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore the concept of multiplying polynomials. In this multiplying polynomials lesson, students watch a video clip about basic math skills. Students work in groups on an exploration about why a binomial squared equals a perfect...
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Countdown Challenge: Tangrams

For Students 7th - 8th
In this tangram worksheet, students find the area of each tangram shape. Afterwards, they name each piece and find the area of combined figures. This one-page worksheet contains approximately 25 problems.
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Does Sunlight Effect Leaf Size?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students make estimates and then measure leaves for accuracy. They calculate the area of the leaves by drawing an outline on graph paper and counting the squares. They compare the leaves exposed to sunlight to those that are in constant...
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Volume of Cones

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the volume of cones and pyramids. In this geometry lesson, students derive the formula for cones and pyramids. They calculate the volume of cones and other three dimensional shapes.
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The Importance of Being Flexible and Open-minded as a Visitor to Another Culture: Lesson 2 For "The Train Ride Home"

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the advantages of being flexible when visiting or living in a different culture. They read and discuss a first-hand account by a Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan, and write a letter from the point of view of a...
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Sleuthing A Writer's Skills

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read The Train Ride Home by Robin Solomon. In this literature response lesson, students will inspect the writing of Solomon to determine how she established a certain tone through her word choice and...
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Word Problems: Geometry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students solve word problems by using basic geometry. In this geometry lesson, students use geometric formulas to find the perimeter, area, and volume of objects. Students complete a worksheet.
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Volume

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students, after reviewing the measuring of the lengths of sides of different shapes along with the calculation of their perimeters and areas, encounter what it means by the 'perimeter' of a polygon. They practice measuring units of...
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Integrated Algebra/Math A/B Regents Questions: Quadratic Word Problems

For Students 9th - 12th
For this quadratic word problems worksheet, students solve 8 short answer and multiple choice problems. Students write and solve quadratic equations given a quadratic word problem.
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Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 5th - 6th
In this finding the missing units in triangles worksheet, students apply the Pythagorean Theorem to solve. Students solve 10 problems. 
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Counting Craters on the Hubble Space Telescope!

For Students 8th - 10th
In this Hubble Space Telescope worksheet, students are given a photograph of the radiator recovered after being in space on the Hubble Space Telescope since 1993. Students solve 6 problems about the impacts that left craters on the...
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Texas Instruments

The Determinant of a Matrix

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners calculate the determinant. In this algebra lesson, students find the determinant and use to calculate the area of a triangle. They calculate the area of a quadrilateral in a plane.