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Better Lesson: Area and Perimeter Review Using Legos

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Lesson plan in which students calculate area, build areas to a given amount, and calculate the perimeter with the use of Legos. Step by step instructions and videos are provided. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.c Use area models to represent...
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Better Lesson: Using Models to Add and Subtract

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Common Core standards encourage the use of models to build understanding in math. This lesson shows sometimes reluctant 2nd graders that models are helpful tools in solving mathematical problems.
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Better Lesson: Criteria for Success: Story Problem

For Teachers K - 1st
Students learn the basics of "Modeling with Mathematics" (CCSS.MP.4) as they practice putting their thinking on paper in this beginning of year lesson. This lesson includes a video tutorial, differentiated worksheets based on skill...
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Better Lesson: Multiplying With Fractions

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will use their understanding of multiplying fractions and apply it to dividing fractions which is a key component in common core. Included in this lesson are a closing activity, a link to a website for area models, and a...
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Intel: Fractions Made Visual

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students learn the importance of math accuracy and, more specifically, that knowing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions make life easier for everyone. To help students come to this understanding, they are assigned to a...
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Ice Cream Cone

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
You have been hired by the owner of a local ice cream parlor to assist in his company's new venture. The company will soon sell its ice cream cones in the freezer section of local grocery stores. The manufacturing process requires that...
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Better Lesson: Rewriting Formulas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson, students explore "real-life" resources that make use of literal equations (rewriting known formulas) to help make people's lives easier. Students will use Excel to design formulas that find a specific value like those...
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Better Lesson: Comparing Temperatures

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders should be able to recognize what makes one number greater or smaller than another, using place value understanding which is crucial to Common Core mastery. This lesson plan combines math and science by having students...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N rn.a.2: Checking a Calculation of a Decimal Exponent

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of the task is to connect properties of fractional exponents with ordering of real numbers. Aligns with N-RN.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics: N rn.a.1: Evaluating a Special Exponential Expression

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to study the rules of exponents in the context of trying to make sense of a challenging mathematical expression. Teachers will critically analyze each student's argument. Aligns with N-RN.A.1.
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Illustrative Mathematics: F Le, a Rei Population and Food Supply

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students analyze the sizes of a country's population and of its food supply to determine when and if food shortages will occur. To solve it, they must construct and compare linear and exponential functions and find where...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Rei Reasoning With Linear Inequalities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Young scholars are presented with a solution to an inequality and are asked to find two mathematical errors and explain why they are incorrect. Aligns with A-REI.B.3 and A-REI.A.1.
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Illustrative Mathematics: N Rn Sums of Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this task is to examine sums and products of rational and irrational numbers. One important property of rational numbers is that their decimals always terminate or repeat: using a slightly different formulation, a rational...
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Illustrative Mathematics: a.apr Combined Fuel Efficiency

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this problem is to rewrite simple rational expressions in different forms to exhibit different aspects of the expression, in the context of a relevant real-world context, in this case, the fuel efficiency of a car. A-APR.D.6.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Rei Pythagorean Triples

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task has two separate goals: the first is to solve a pair of equations, one quadratic and the other linear. The second goal is to observe that a point that lies on a circle gives rise to a Pythagorean triple. Aligns with A-REI.C.7.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Weather Graph Data

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to represent and interpret weather data, as well as answer questions about the data they have recorded. Student worksheets and recording sheet are included.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Proportionality

For Teachers 7th Standards
This lesson plan explores how to recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Hexagonal Pattern of Beehives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Beehives are made of walls, each of the same size, enclosing small hexagonal cells where honey and pollen are stored and bees are raised. This problem examines some of the mathematical advantages of the hexagonal tiling in a beehive....
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Toilet Roll

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Picture a roll of toilet paper; assume that the paper in the roll is very tightly rolled. Assuming that the paper in the roll is very thin, find a relationship between the thickness of the paper, the inner and outer radii of the roll,...
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg How Many Cells Are in the Human Body?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
About how many cells are in the human body? The purpose of this task is for students to apply the concepts of mass, volume, and density in a real-world context. Aligns with G-MG.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Seven Circles Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, seven pennies are placed in a circle so that they are all touching one in the center and their neighbors. Students are asked to find as many rigid motions of the plane as they can which are symmetries of this configuration...
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Construction of Perpendicular Bisector

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A and B are two distinct points in the plane and line AB is the segment joining them. The goal of this problem is to construct the perpendicular bisector of segment AB. Aligns with G-CO.D.12.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Are the Triangles Congruent?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In each of the following diagrams, two triangles are shaded. Based on the information given about each diagram, decide whether there is enough information to prove that the two triangles are congruent. Aligns with G-CO.B.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Dilations and Distances

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this task is to study the impact of dilations on distances between points. Aligns with G-CO.A.2.

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