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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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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.
Illustrative Mathematics
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...
Illustrative Mathematics
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Radius of a Cylinder
Given the height and volume of a certain cylinder, Jill uses the volume formula to compute its radius. If a second cylinder has the same volume as the first, but is 100 times taller, what is its radius? Aligns with A-SSE.A.1.
Illustrative Mathematics
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: A Sse Mixing Fertilizer
A landscaping company prepares two mixtures of fertilizer. In this task, students investigate what happens to the value of an expression when a quantity is changed. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
Illustrative Mathematics
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 Egyptian Fractions Ii
In this task, learners will rewrite fractions as a sum of distinct unit fractions. To solve the problem, students will rewrite a simple rational expression and will need to study the arithmetic of these unit fractions with a variable in...
Illustrative Mathematics
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...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Mixing Candies
This task about a box of chocolates has students use the given equations to answer questions about weight and price, as well as interpret the expressions in the equations. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.a.
Illustrative Mathematics
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...
Illustrative Mathematics
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...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 1.oa Valid Equalities?
This lesson plans allows students to explore the meaning of the equal sign in addition and subtraction problems.
Illustrative Mathematics
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 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...
Illustrative Mathematics
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
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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Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Inscribing a Hexagon in a Circle
In this task, students inscribe a regular hexagon inside a circle and compare its area to that of the circle. Aligns with G-CO.D.13.
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