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Sled Kites and Trigonometry
Pupils study the history of kites and their fundamental properties. In this kites lesson students divide into teams and build and fly kites.
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La Toteca- A Tropical Paradise
Students collect data on the time of the ferry. For this algebra lesson, students use the data to predict a ferry schedule. They also compute the depth where oxygen would be needed when diving.
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High and Low Tides
Young scholars collect real world data from the Web regarding high and low tides at various locations in the United States. They find a function which models this data and make predictions on tide levels based on the information found.
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Loyalists
High schoolers explain why some colonists remained loyal to England during the American revolution. In this social studies lesson plan, students write a letter to an editor about their reasons for remaining loyal to England.
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A Special Relationship
Students discover the relationships of the lengths of the sides of right triangles and right triangles using a series of drawings on dot paper. They investigate and solve problems of standard (customary and metric units) and non-standard...
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Introducing Trig
Fifth graders explore the importance of triangles in the real world. They find the unknown side of a right triangle using a scale drawing. Students use Pythagoras' Theorem and other appropriate ratios.
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Worksheet 35
For this math worksheet, students write a problem having solution u(x, t) for each function u given. They include the lengths, physical constants, and initial conditions.