BBC
Bbc World Service: Figure It Out: Travel and Traffic
The learning resource demonstrates how math can be used in the real world. The activity has examples of word problems related to travel and traffic.
PBS
Pbs: Split Time: Real World Rate
Dan has to run on a different track in the winter, how can he figure out his split time for the smaller track? This interactive exercise focuses on using what you know about ratios to calculate the correct split time for the different...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Direct and Partial Variation
Students analyze and explore direct and partial variation. Comprehension is shown through solving real world problems. The two lessons have an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Direct and Partial Variation
Students analyze and explore direct and partial variation. Comprehension is shown through solving real world problems. The two lessons have an overview, materials, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Triangles: Targeted Math Instruction
Students will learn how to apply the properties and characteristics of all triangles to solve real-world problems and identify and use the unique characteristics of right, isosceles, equilateral, acute, obtuse, and scalene triangles.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Algebra Plus: Targeted Math Instruction
Algebra lesson focuses on using patterns and relationships to write equations with two variables to represent relationships and patterns in real-world problems, plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate grid, and interpreting the meaning of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Find Perimeter When Given Side Lengths
Find perimeter of figures when given an image or context. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.D.8 Solve real world and...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Halloween: Shopping
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario doing Halloween shopping. Those skills include solving money problems with addition and subtraction and understanding the value of money and coins.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Volume Word Problems
Find the volume of rectangular prisms to solve word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Bacteria Populations
This task provides a real-world context for interpreting and solving exponential equations. Students are asked to examine the equations representing the growth of three colonies of the bacterium that causes pneumonia, each colony being...
Oswego City School District
Regents Prep: Applications of Trigonometric Graphs
Students can use this site to practice questions dealing with trigonometric graphs. Students are challenged with multiple real-world problems and after solving those problems they can check their solution online.
Intel Corporation
Intel: Fractions Made Visual
Students learn the importance of math accuracy and, more specifically, that knowing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions make life easier for everyone. To help students come to this understanding, they are assigned to a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Two Step Equations Word Problems
Practice writing equations to model and solve real-world situations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
PBS
Pbs: Piano Tuning and Balancing Equations
Examine how one innovator is working to improve the way concert pianos are designed and tuned. This video focuses on the balance that needs to occur in an ideally tuned piano key and explores how David Stanwood calculated the balance...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
This lesson plan helps students understand how to graph ordered pairs on the coordinate plane. Lots of resources are available to teachers and students at this website.