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Count On It!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice counting money. In this consumer math instructional activity, students identify the various U.S. coins and group them in various ways to equal a dollar. Students will use the money they collected for a donation towards...
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Skittles Lab

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars use Skittles as manipulatives to practice computing decimals from fractions, computing decimals into percentages, and creating bar graphs from gathered data.
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Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions

For Students 8th - 9th
In this algebra worksheet, students simplify rational expressions. They multiply and divide to solve the expressions. There are 9 questions.
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Calculating Interest

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the concept that when money is borrowed, people pay to use it because someone else is losing an opportunity to use it while they have it. What you pay to use the money is called interest. The rate of interest is a...
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Visual Equivalents: Tenths and Hundredths

For Students 5th - 7th
In this fractions learning exercise, students write the fractions for the visual equivalents to the base ten blocks in tenths and hundredths. Students complete 4 problems.
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Mathematics Word Problems

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students solve 16 word problems. For example, "Andy has .9 of a dollar. How many dimes is that? How much money is that?"
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Trigonometry Investigation

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this math activity, students use the sheet to conduct an investigation to find the trigonometric ratios using opposite and adjacent sides to see how they are related to each other.
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Arithmetic: Decimals, Fractions and Percentages

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students recall word problems that involve place value along with conversion of decimals to fractions. Included are hundreds, tens, units, tenths, hundredths and thousandths. They independently work on a variety of equations converting...
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Accuracy of Measurements

For Students 7th - 8th
For this accuracy of measurements worksheet, students solve and complete 3 different types of word problems. First, they find the largest area of pitch in the problem described. Then, students write down an inequality to show the range...
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Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

For Students 6th - 8th
In this fractions, decimals and percentages worksheet, students identify equivalent integers. They convert numbers from fractions to decimals and percents. This two-page worksheet contains 11 problems.
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Law of Sines and Law of Cosines

For Students 9th - 11th
In this sine and cosine instructional activity, students use the law of sines and law of cosines to find the required part of a triangle. Examples and explanations are provided. This three-page instructional activity contains 24...
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Integers and Measurement

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this integers and measurement worksheet, students solve 24 various types of problems as defined. They reduce all fractions to lowest terms. Then, students draw a diagram and show the measurements to the proper power and pi for the...
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Compare and Order Fractions

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fractions worksheet, students complete a set of 12 problems, using division to order sets of fractions from greatest to least. A reference web site is given for additional activities. 
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Percents and Discounts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners convert between decimals and percents. In this algebra activity, students define percent as it relates to sales and tax. They calculate the percents of number using multiplication.
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Getting Percentible

For Teachers 4th
This unit explores the connections between percentages, decimals, and fractions. It focuses on strategies for solving problems involving percentages and applies these strategies to real life contexts.
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Scientific Notation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students observe the teacher writing numbers and determine the rules for scientific notation. After explanations, they perform operations on numbers in scientific nation and discuss reasons for using this method of writing numbers and...
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Proportional Problems 1

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore representing fractions as ratios and proportions. They model proportions through the use of blocks, LEGO gears and activities with bicycle gears and pedals. Students work with bicycle gear boxes to observe and...
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Similarity and Congruence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of similarity and congruence. In this similarity and congruence activity, students cut out strips of paper and form a triangle. Learners try to prove that their triangles are congruent using the SSS theorem...
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Hundredths

For Students 5th - 6th
In this decimal and fractions instructional activity, students read 6 story problems in which a fraction and a decimal is written to represent the answer.
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Change Fractions to Decimals

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this fractions and decimals learning exercise, students write 9 fractions as decimals. The fractions include one, two, three, and four-digit numbers.
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Multiplication Principle

For Students 8th
In this multiplication principle worksheet, 8th graders solve 10 different problems that apply the multiplication principle to each one. They solve for each variable in the problem listed on the sheet. Then, students write their answer...
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Tumbling Cubes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students compare fractions and decimals while playing a game and order fractions and decimals found on the number cubes to create a number line. They then play a game called the Fraction Decimal Toss.
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Playing With Probability

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate probability. They use ratios to solve simple probability situations. Students express their solutions in the form of fractions or decimals. They predict outcomes and complete probability worksheets.
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Percentages: Converting Fractions and Decimals to Percents

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners calculate percentages. In this percentages lesson plan, students count the total number of floor tiles covering a given space, measure a designated section of the room, and then calculate the percentage of the room this area...