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Multiplying Matrices for Fun and Profit

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore matrix multiplication to generate new data. In this pre-algebra instructional activity, students solve problems by computing with matrices. Students explore the concept of matrices in the real-world context of running an...
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There's No Accountin with Ledgers

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders create and maintain a ledger, write an essay for the process, and learn to keep financial accounts through the ledger. In this ledger lesson, 10th graders define an accounting ledger and create one for the money they've...
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What Color Are Your Skittles?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students create spreadsheets and manipulate data. They collect data, create appropriate graphs and use percentages to describe quantities. Students compare and contrast data. They use spreadsheets to generate a pie chart.
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Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students flip coins and draw marbles out of a bag to determine probabilities of a particular outcome. Young scholars discuss the differences between...
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Optical Illusion

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students practice creating optical illusions as well as discerning how perception of information may change its characteristics. They distinguish between an equilateral triangle, endpoints, vertices's, and segments of triangles. The...
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A Common Measuring System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the units of measurement of the Metric system. They translate a standard recipe into one using metric units. One group prepares the recipe using standard measurements and another prepares it using Metric units. They...
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Accounting Jeopardy -- Journalizing

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders play the Accounting Jeopardy Game to review the journalizing process. They analyze business transactions from source documents and journal about transactions using various journal formats. They use the Jeopardy template to...
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Money & Work

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain basic information concerning financial investments. They identify consumer rights and responsibilities and effective practices for purchasing consumer goods, services, housing and insurance. They list steps in setting...
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The Is No Such Thing as a Perfect Pumpkin

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore using descriptive words to describe physical appearance. In this appearance lesson, students look at pumpkins and discuss how there is not a perfect pumpkin. Students also hypothesize about what the perfect pumpkin's...
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Fairness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore fairness. In this fairness instructional activity, students recieve a envelope of materials, not all envelopes contain the same materials. Learners cut shapes to specific measurements and get money for them. If the...
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Multiplying Decimal Numbers: Using Zeros as Placeholders

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Explore decimals with upper graders. They solve problems from their textbook involving decimal multiplication. Afterward, as a class, they check their answers by comparing them to those projected with an overhead projector.
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Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders engage in a lesson that explores the conversion process of fractions, decimals, and percents in relationship to their values to each other. Students demonstrate how to convert numbers interchangeably between fractions,...
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Angles of Elevation and Depression

For Students 10th
In this angles of elevation and depression worksheet, 10th graders solve 4 word problems that are related to determining the angles of elevation and depression. First, they define angle of elevation and angle of depression as used in the...
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Inductive Reasoning and Conjecturing

For Students 10th
In this inductive reasoning and conjecturing worksheet, 10th graders solve 4 problems that include applying inductive reasoning and conjecturing to each problem. First, they determine if each conjecture is true or false based on the...
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From Home To School

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students locate and use internet maps to trace a route from their home to school. They calculate the distance of the route using the map legend then determine the distance they travel to school and back in a regular school week and over...
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Measure for Measure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
How does your class measure up? Young scientists create a scale drawing of the JOIDES Resolution in a collaborative activity. The lesson incorporates mathematical principles with deep-sea exploration to focus on enhancing measurement...
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K12 Reader

Estimation

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
When is it a good idea to use estimation? Learn about estimation and rounding with a reading comprehension lesson. After kids read a passage about estimation, they answer five comprehension questions on the other side of the page.
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Is Measuring an Art or a Science?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Not only do future engineers learn the difference between accuracy and precision, they also get some hands-on experience using different measuring tools. 
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Basic Operations with Decimals

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice skills adding and dividing decimals. They examine the help wanted ads and compute the hourly and weekly wages. They discuss the real life value of understanding the importance of decimals.
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Teaching Percentages

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students calculate percentages using the Percent Tricks method. They multiply and divide whole numbers. They count total number of candies in a bag and calculate the percent of each color.
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Arrays And Factors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the concepts of arrays and factors. They use a Hershey bar and divide it into segments in order to simulate the arrays. Then students construct other arrays from the leftover pieces.
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Ecology - Biodiversity Lab

For Teachers 9th
Studnents examine the degree of biodiversity that exists in one's everyday environment, in order to develop an understanding of how scientists classify organisms and to explain why biodiversity is important for living things.
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Fractions and Fact Families: Jump Kangaroo Jump!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice with fractions and fact families. In this fractions and fact families activity, 2nd graders participate in a series of activities to assist them with understanding fractions.  Activities include graphing, creating...
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Estimation Investigation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view an interactive video to explore the concepts of estimation. They work cooperatively to measure, make comparisons, make predictions, and verify results.

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