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Multiplication Illustration
Third graders use literature and art to apply the principals of multiplication with three or more factors. They write and illustrate their own books following criteria outlined in a checklist imbedded in this plan.
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Gummy vs. Gum
Students explore numbers patterns and write equations to describe the pattern. They apply the equations to further the patterns.
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Sloping and Intersecting a Linear Function
High schoolers examine and discuss typical linear equations, and the difference between a linear and nonlinear equation. They observe examples of linear equations and complete a worksheet.
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Who Wants Pizza?
Learners practice fraction skills online at the "Want Some Pizza" website. They complete activities via the internet and on square grid paper. They pull down tabs to check their answers.
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Introduction to Linear Functions
Young scholars are introduced to the concept of linear functions. Using new terminology, they describe linear functions in sentences and in data tables. Using the internet, they calculate and record answers to problems which are...
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Three-Dimensional Figures
Sixth graders explore three-dimensional objects. Using various objects found in the classroom, they identify faces, edges, and vertices of objects. Students create their own objects. They describe the polydron, telling the faces,...
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Building Word Problems
Sixth graders study addition and subtraction facts. In equal groups, they play a race game to correctly solve addition and subtraction problems. Using a PowerPoint presentation, the teacher demonstrates how to write word problems and...
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Multiplying Fractions
Fifth graders explore the multiplication of fractions. Using paper folds, 5th graders observe multiplying by a fraction. They extrapolate multiplication problems from studying a written graphic.
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Reading Graphs
Pupils practice plotting functions on the Cartesian coordinate plane, see several categories of functions, including lines and parabolas, and read a graph, answering questions about the situation described by the graph
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Bias Sampling
Students demonstrate how the results of a poll or other scientific study can be biased by selecting special types of people to respond or by asking only certain questions.
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How Do You Get to School?
Students, through a literature based assignment, explore basic modes of transportation and examine how different things move at different speeds.
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Area Adventure
Students calculate the area of figures using the formula: length x width = area. They solve area problems using paper squares, geoboards, and real-world problems.
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Are We the Same?
Young scholars define and discuss symmetry, line of symmetry, and congruency. They cut shapes out of construction paper, identify the line of symmetry, and if they are symmetrical and/or congruent.
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The Case of the Missing Middle Term
Young scholars examine the difference of squares equation, and multiply binomials using the FOIL method. They complete the Case of the Missing Middle Term worksheet.
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What Would You Do With $5.00?
Young scholars watch the video Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday.