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Better Lesson: Criteria for Success: Story Problem
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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Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Ice Cream Cone
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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Cpalms: Why Are Circles Similar?
[Free Registration/Login Required] A comprehensive lesson plan for teaching how to prove that all circles are similar by using three types of transformations.
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Illustrative Mathematics: N rn.a.2: Checking a Calculation of a Decimal Exponent
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
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
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: N cn.a.2, N cn.b.5, and N cn.c.8 Complex Cube Roots
This task has students further their understanding of the algebra of the complex numbers. Aligns with N-CN.A.2, N-CN.B.5,a nd N-CN.C.8.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse the Physics Professor
For this task, young scholars are asked to study the structure of an algebraic expression, draw conclusions, and explain their thinking. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf, G Co, Trigonometric Identities and Rigid Motions
The purpose of this task is to apply translations and reflections to the graphs of the functions f(x)=cos x and g(x)=sin x in order to derive some trigonometric identities. There are also rotations 180 degrees about points on the x-axis...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Apr Zeroes and Factorization of Quadratic Polynomial
This is the first of a series of problems building to an understanding of an important property of polynomial functions, that a polynomial of degree d can have at most d roots. Aligns with A-APR.B.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Rei Two Squares Are Equal
This task asks students to solve a quadratic equation in as many different ways as they can. Aligns with A-REI.B.4 and A-REI.D.11.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Delivery Trucks
This task asks students to analyze four expressions to determine what each represents in terms of the problem's context, which is about two trucks delivering different amounts of sand in different numbers of trips. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Seeing Dots
The purpose of this task is to identify the structure in the two algebraic expressions by interpreting them in terms of a geometric context, a series of squares filled with dot arrangements. Students are asked to notice a pattern and...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Sum of Even and Odd
In this task, students use the structure of an expression to find ways to rewrite it. They are asked to use the defining property of even and odd functions to manipulate expressions involving function notation and to see the structure in...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Rei Pythagorean Triples
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: 1.oa Valid Equalities?
This lesson plans allows students to explore the meaning of the equal sign in addition and subtraction problems.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Comparing Numbers
This task is a fun partner game in which students practice making two-digit numbers, decide which is greater, and write the appropriate comparison symbolically.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg How Many Cells Are in the Human Body?
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 Origami Regular Octagon
After successive folds of a piece of origami paper, a student must explain why the shape made is a regular octagon. Aligns with G-CO.A.3 and G-CO.D.12.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Seven Circles Ii
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, G Srt Seven Circles I
In this task, seven pennies are placed in a circle so that they are all touching one in the center and their neighbors. The question is whether this will work with other equally-sized circles. Aligns with G-SRT.C and G-CO.C.10.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Properties of Congruent Triangles
The goal of this task is to understand how congruence of triangles, defined in terms of rigid motions, relates to the corresponding sides and angles of triangles. Aligns with G-CO.B.7.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Angle Bisection and Midpoints of Line Segments
This task provides a construction of the angle bisector of an angle by reducing it to the bisection of an angle to finding the midpoint of a line segment. Aligns with G-CO.D.12.
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Illustrative Mathematics: G C, G Co Tangent Lines and the Radius of a Circle
In this task, students are shown a circle with center O and point P on the circle. L is a line that is a tangent to the circle at P. They must show that line OP is perpendicular to line L. Aligns with G-C.A.2, G-CO.A, and G-CO.C.9.
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