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What's on Sale?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore sale items.  In this money and percent math lesson, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper.  Students identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage discounts.  Students...
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Arithmetic Sequences 1.6

For Students 9th - 12th
For this arithmetic sequences worksheet, high schoolers solve 45 short answer, multiple choice, and graphing problems. Students find the nth term of an arithmetic sequence. High schoolers solve systems of equations using elimination....
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Weather Math Student Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math instructional activity, learners record the high and low daily temperatures for their home city or another location. Students average the temperatures and make comparisons. As a bonus activity, learners answer 3 questions...
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Weather Math Student Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this weather math worksheet, learners will use weather.com to find the forecasted temperatures for their home town. Using data from the website, students will find the average highs and lows for their selected cities. Then learners...
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The Night Harry Stopped Smoking

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math and language worksheet, students complete word problems and match vocabulary based on the story The Night Harry Stopped Smoking. Students complete 16 problems total.
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The Schoolyard Safari

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students engage in a activity to find out more information about insects. They collect and observe different insects found on school property. They research the insects once they have been classified. Also a video is used to create a...
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Ponzi? An April Fool's Day History and Economics Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the concept of a Ponzi Scheme. In this economics lesson, students invest in a product called Thin-Cups. Students invest money in this product over the course of a couple weeks. Students discover how a Ponzi Scheme works...
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Pictograms of Haircuts

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students convert the data into numbers from the pictograms. The graphic organizer gives information for the 8 follow up questions.
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Investigating comparative biodiversity of wetland and schoolyard sites

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in an activity dealing with the environment.
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Jim, Tony, and Frank-The School Fund-raiser (Graphing)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this graphing worksheet, students view a pie chart. Students use their graphing knowledge to interpret the pie chart and answer ten questions. There is an answer sheet.
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The Smelly Sandwich Case

For Students 9th - 12th
In this exponential function worksheet, students theorize the growth rate of bacteria found on a sandwich hidden in a student's locker. There are 6 questions to answer to solve the mystery.
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John's Trucking- Counting the Miles

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this graphs worksheet, students analyze a pie graph showing miles driven by three truck drivers in a week. Students fill out a chart in which they calculate total miles driven.
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The Birchbark House Math Activity

For Students 5th - 6th
In this The Birchbark House math activity worksheet, students, after reading the story, complete 10 story problems based on the events in the story;  this page has links to helpful websites.
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Grade 5 Singapore Math: Average

For Students 4th - 6th
In this grade 5 Singapore Math worksheet, students solve a set of 20 problems, finding average. An answer key and reference web site are given.
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Smoking: The Real Cost

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the adverse effects of smoking and predict the financial cost of a smoking habit. They collect data regarding the cost of a pack of cigarettes and average packs smoked a day. They create bar graphs displaying the...
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Consider the Possibilities

For Students 4th - 5th
For this math worksheet, students analyze 4 story problems which have questions about possible outcomes. Students answer the questions which involve money, calendar and fractions.
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The Birthday Problem

For Students 9th - 12th
In this probability worksheet, high schoolers solve 1 word problem about birthdays.  Students determine the number of people needed for a 50% chance of two people sharing the same birthday.
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The Barbie Problem

For Students 9th - 12th
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, high schoolers determine the average cost of one Barbie doll given information regarding the sales amounts and frequency of the purchases. The one page worksheet contains one problem...
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Conversion Tables

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Here are some practical conversion scenarios for scholars to figure out. They examine an example table converting cents to dollars before completing two of their own. For the first, learners convert weeks to days. Some of these are done...
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Real-life Problems, Working with Decimals

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Put your learners' decimal skills to the test with these five word problems. With space for students to write their work, the word problems contain addition and multiplication problems with money and measurement units. Use this resource...
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Reading Graphs

For Students 4th - 5th
Encourage kids to read line graphs with confidence using these examples and accompanying comprehension questions. Learners examine two graphs and answer four questions about each. This is definitely intended for beginners to this type of...
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Probability Scale 0 to 1

For Students 4th - 5th
Use a probability scale line to help introduce learners to odds and probability. They start by examining an example line, looking at where events would fall from 100% probability to 0%. Next, learners complete two of these on their own,...
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Discovering Pi

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Define terminology related to a circle. Practice accuracy in measuring and then create a spreadsheet based on data collected from solving for parts of a circle. Groups can have fun analyzing their data as it relates to Pi.
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Bird Ecology Unit

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders conduct various activities utilizing the scientific method to formulate a hypothesis, conduct a controlled experiment, collect and analyze the data and communicate their results through a poster. They also identify...