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"Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" by Judith Viorst

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students figure out the probability that the penny's sixth toss be heads also. They figure the probability of having six coin tosses in a row all end on the same side.
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Expected Value

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore expected value, are introduced to the concept of varying payoffs, and have used a computer simulation of a "real world" example where expected value is used
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Who Would Have Figured?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate what happens when a coin is tossed a few times versus many times. They analyze, in groups, the data from tossing coins, and the Law of Large Numbers.
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Efficiency Means Getting More for Less

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students measure water and make predictions about efficiency.
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The Circle's Measure

For Teachers 6th
Listen to the story "Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi" and solve the riddle and to save Sir Cumference from the knights.  Your students will love mixing an activity with story and will practice their measuring skills while...
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The Cost of College: Financing Your Education

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
With college tuition at an all-time high, high school students must consider the financial obligations of attending higher education, as well as the impact of college on future career opportunities. Pupils will complete...
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Making Money and Spreading the Flu!

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Paper folding, flu spreading in a school, bacteria growth, and continuously compounded interest all provide excellent models to study exponential functions. This is a comprehensive resource that looks at many different aspects of...
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Volume, Mass, and Weight

For Teachers 5th
Study the difference between mass and weight. Your math group will compare the weight of an item to the amount of space that it uses. They'll then use conversion factors to find the difference between kilograms and pounds. Essential...
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The Colored Cube Question

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how to determine the probabilities or likelihood of outcomes. They complete trials to determine probability while using different manipulatives. They determine how games can be made fair or unfair in this unit of...
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Probability Plus

For Teachers K - 4th
Students participate in a variety of activities to understand statistics. They collect and interpret data. Also students distinguish the difference between a population and a sample. They make inferences and create arguments using data.
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Cultural Diversity

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore cultural diversity.  In this secondary mathematics lesson, students use jelly beans to explore diversity.  Students collect and analyze data into a matrix as they determine probabilities.
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Creating a Bar Graph Using a Spreadsheet: Dice Rolling Probabilities

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore the concept of spreadsheets. They create a simple spreadsheet and chart from given data. Students perform basic formatting procedures on their chart. They use spreadsheet functions to perform calculations.
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Roll `Em!

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in using base ten blocks and dice for a fun engaging math lesson. They use a worksheet imbedded in this lesson as the game board to help them play this math game.
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Grade Data Analysis and Probability

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders display the outcome of given events by creating and reading tree diagram. They explain the relationship between addition and multiplication.
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The Car Pool is Coming

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students evaluate the number of people who travel out of their town to work. They figure out what the percentage of each town's commuting workers is to the number who commute in the region. They plot the percentages on a pie chart.
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Math Lesson: How Many People Live There?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils are able to calculate the population density of a country, and calculate the population density of large cities in that country. They are able to create an appropriate graph to represent their data for that country.
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POPCORN SCIENCE!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers work in groups to define what popcorn is, what kinds of popcorn they eat, and hypothesize what happens when popcorn pops. They also weigh, pop and weigh their popcorn again, measuring how many popcorn kernels they...
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Math Can Be Mean!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the topic of means. Calculating the mean, mode and median, they describe what each set of numbers tell and do not tell about the data. They use a line graph to practice finding the mean. They also use...
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A Bubble Full of Math

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students compare estimated lengths with actual lengths.
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Angles Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students stud angles, and then play the "What's Your Angle?" game. They complete at least 10 computer generated problems from the Angles Applet.
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Kansas Foods A Data and Probability Investigation

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study a number of food products and anticipate which are derived from Kansas crops. They make a list of words associated with the food stuffs and graph the results.
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Take A Chance Or Two

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A two-part instructional activity immerses young statisticians in the concept of probability. On the first day, will conduct experiments with a two-colored coin and learn how to write probabilities as fractions, ratios, and percentages....
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What are the Odds

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Learners predict the-outcome of an event. In this algebra lesson, students compare and contrast the probability of an event occurring. They calculate the odds of a simple event and make estimation.
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"Colors" a poem by Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils collect data, graph it, and use the data to find measures of central tendencies, and find probabilities.

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