Students explore the history of basketball by reading and listening to a book entitled, "The Young Basketball Player." Afterwards, they create a trivia basketball game and write an interview for their favorite player. As a...

Money motivates! Help young bankers understand how math plays a part in investing. Give learners math practice while instilling real-world financial literacy skills.

Students investigate probability and the chance of an even happening. In this algebra lesson, students incorporate their knowledge of probability to solve problems and relate it to the real world. They learn to make decisions based on data.

In this central tendency worksheet, students solve and complete 10 different problems that include measures of central tendency. First, they write down the names and heights of students in their class. Then, students explain how they can...

Students use probability as a game strategy.

Can you tell how tall someone is just by looking at their feet? In this activity, young mathematicians measure their height, arm span, and foot size, graph their findings, and answer questions about how these measurements are related....

Learners collect data from China's population growth and determine the mean, median, and mode from the data. In this data lesson plan, pupils determine probabilities and use them to make predictions.

The written form for 345 is three-hundred forty-five, where as the word form for 70% is seventy percent. Here, young mathematicians read 10 sentences and write the word form of each number in the sentences.

Fourth graders play a game to determine the likelihoods of different outcomes when rolling two number cubes. Students play a game to determine the likelihoods of different outcomes when rolling two number cubes.

Fourth graders examine how to determine the probabilities or likelihood of outcomes. They complete trials to determine probability while using different manipulatives. They determine how games can be made fair or unfair in this unit of...

In this math worksheet, students analyze the winner of a mathematician's puzzle and try their hand at the game. This is a matching worksheet where the students review their statistics skills as well as basic math skills.

Students play a probability game, then design and complete a probability problem concerning changing odds.

Students estimate how many games are played if six teams play each other once. They investigate their own way and discuss possible strategies they might use. They then share their findings with the class.

Students use the internet to research the New York Yankees baseball team. After gathering their information, they discuss the challenges faced by the team and how they were overcome. They end the lesson by examining the math and...

Students converse with each other while playing a game in order to discover things that are alike and things that are different about themselves. The students gather data about themselves, organize and display data on the graph, and...

Students, in teams of four, practice shooting free throws while mentally converting the ratio of shots made to those thrown into a percent. They chart and record the ratio, decimal and actual percentage earned after each round.

Seventh graders compare experimental and theoretical probabilities.  In this comparing experimental and theoretical probabilities lesson, 7th graders discuss the theoretical probability of flipping a coin.  Students flip a coin...

Students study data on the nutritional value of Burger King meals in order to discover its nutritional value and also to compare the meals, using mathematical computation, to the recommended daily diet. In this data handling lesson...

Students discover details about the world of British football. In this current events lesson plan, students browse selected websites to explore the work and history of the game, the Euro 2008, and the business aspects of the game in...

Pupils read and interpret graphs of data sets. The data is used to devise reasons as to why teams in the NCAA Basketball finals from the 1950'sand up have the highest scores.

Students differentiate between theoretical and experimental probability. For this probability lesson, students create a puzzle and calculate the probability of an event occurring. They use problems dealing real life scenarios.

Learners use fitness skills to solve basic math problems.

Fifth graders collect and organize data from writing samples, use fractions and decimals to describe the experimental data, and use the experimental results to make predictions about the frequency of letter usage in the English language.

In this probability worksheet, students solve 1 word problem about birthdays.  Students determine the number of people needed for a 50% chance of two people sharing the same birthday.