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Illustrative Mathematics

Walk-a-thon 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Your mathematician's job is to explore the relationship between hours and miles walked during a walk-a-thon. The activity compels your learners to experiment with different means in finding out this proportional relationship. The answer...
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Function Tables

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students identify function using tables of data. In this algebra lesson, students create a tale of point and plot on a coordinate plane. They analyze the graph as being a function or not.
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Money Management

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students discuss the differences between needs and wants, practice budgeting resources and investigate the workings of a capitalist society, by creating a mock store.
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What Goes Around, Comes Around!: Art from the Heart

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify the relationship between an artist and their community. In this serial reciprocity lesson, students listen to a story called Camille and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt and discuss how the community helped Vincent van...
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Comparing and Ordering Greater Numbers

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students compare and order greater numbers. In this place value lesson plan, students use a place-value chart to identify which set of numbers has the greatest value.
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Budget Finances

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students role play the role of a recent graduate of high school living on their own. Using play money, they are given one month's salary and they discover they own their own house or apartment and owe money on a car loan. They develop...
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Algebra 2 - Linear Programming

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students read real world problems, determine the variables, and set up the function using algebraic statements. After entering data into the graphing calculator, they display information in the form of graphs and scatter plots. ...
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Stitch in Time for the Common Good

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils discover the medical breakthroughs provided by profit and non-profit organizations. In this nonprofit and profit organizations lesson, students learn philanthropic terms, research recent medical breakthroughs, then construct and...
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Linear Systems

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students solve and graph linear equations. In this algebra lesson, students solve systems of equations using elimination and substitution. They graph their answer and identify the point of intersection.
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Estimating Prices

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners practice making reasonable estimates. In this consumer math, students round purchase prices of items to estimate the total cost. Learners practice using metal computations to arrive at estimates.
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Scientific Notation

For Students 8th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, students identify the correct method to write positive and negative exponents. They solve word problems and write in scientific notation. There are 21 questions with an answer key.
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Casserole Lab

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils participate in a lecture and lab explaining the qualities of a casserole, identifying the different kinds, the function of the ingredients and foods used in the preparation of the casserole.
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Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve word problems. They identify the graph as exponential growth or decay. There are 7 questions with an answer key.
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Food Safety and Quality Assurance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify and interpret how milk is processed and learn important concepts in food safety and quality assurance. They identify how milk is processed, the importance of food safety, and the quality assurance process....
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Counting and Calculating

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this math worksheet, students follow the basic activities that are shown in the planning guide written for the teacher. The plan is written in the form of a unit.
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The Void Filled by Nonprofits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the significance of nonprofit organizations in a democratic society. They conduct research on a selected nonprofit organization, complete a questionnaire, and present their findings to the class.
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Raindrops Keep Burning On My head

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the effects and causes of acid rain. They test pH of household items to familiarize themselves with pH scale and compare that information with acid rain solutions. They investigate impact of acid rain via internet...
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Opportunity Cost

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of opportunity cost. Classmates discuss, orally and in writing, a time when they had to make a choice when all choices seemed worthwhile. They explore the impact of making decisions when resources are...
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Payment Parliament

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners investigate how the economy works by role playing in their class.  In this money management lesson, students read parts from a script for use in a role playing lesson simulating the Federal Reserve and their payment...
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What's It Worth? Thinking About Weights and Measures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how weights and measures can be used to assess value, that traders must be wary of fraudulent practices, and appreciate the Akan weights as works of art.
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A Focus on Values

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders develop and print their own photos to be used with the poems in class booklets.
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Double-Digit Addition with Regrouping

For Teachers 1st
First graders recall place value system and double-digit addition, create and manipulate double-digit regrouping, and devise and identify ways to use regrouping.
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An Academic, Economic, Cultural, and Political Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students reflect on how many board games they've played have African Americans, their culture or history incorporated within. They identify four street games and three card games that appeal to African Americans. They play the...
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Talkin' About My Generation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research notable figures from their generation and write a research paper illustrating the various figures' impact and influence on their generation in terms of language, leisure and politics.