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All I Want For Christmas

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create wish lists from catalogues and sales ads based on a given budget. They add, subtract, estimate, and budget their given amount of money so they don't go over budget.
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Two Step Equations

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders solve multiple step math problems. In this problem solving lesson, 6th graders practice following step by step instructions such as making cookies or building a snowman. Students use algebra tiles and draw pictures to solve...
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Batchelder News Channel Data Mix Up!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students look at data in graphs with missing labels and use what they know about graphs to label the topics, titles, and axes of the graph. In this graph lesson plan, students pretend they are news reporters and have to fix their stories!
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Proportional Similarities

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students model the geometric relationship with graphing. In this geometry lesson, students differentiate between parallel, perpendicular, similar and congruent shapes. They use properties of polygons to differentiate their shapes...
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Folktale Unit Ideas

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read a variety of folktales and participate in writing, drawing, measurement, and time activities that relate to the stories. They graph the number of different versions of one folktale that the class finds and reads.
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Scarcity and Choice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a role play as producers of two goods, allowing students to experience scarcity. They make choices about using their scarce resource to produce both or one of two goods. Then they construct...
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Aw Chute!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are presented with the problem of constructing a parachute that has the maximum hang time. They construct their own parachute using available materials. Pupils drop their parachutes from a height of two meters and record the...
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Buy Low, Sell High

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners investigate the stock market and investing in corporate stocks by creating an investment portfolio. They develop database worksheets that track their stock's performance over a specified period of time. Students use their...
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Questionnaires and Analysis

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students, review the techniques and different types of data analysis as well as how they are expressed, identify why facts and data are needed in conclusion of a questionnaire. The concepts of qualitative and quantitative data are...
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Equations 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss the meaning of balance and how it applies to equations. After listening to a lecture, they practice solving equations with two orders of operation and doing whatever they do on one side to the other side as a class. To...
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Multiplying Polynomials - FOIL

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Pupils participate in an activity to demonstrate the distributive property. They take notes as they observe different methods of FOIL. Afterward, students work on their own, and in groups to determine which method to use and complete...
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Lemonade Business Stock Market Intro

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students role play as business owners in order to learn about how certain aspects of business works. In this 3rd - 6th grade lesson plan, students experience creating and running their own business, including earning profits and...
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Creating a Mathematical Model Using Weather Data

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Young scholars explore the concept of mathematical models. In this mathematical model lesson, students create a mathematical model from data from 4 cities over 15 months. Young scholars are told they are working for a weather station. ...
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Thinking About Credit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of credit. In this credit lesson, students discuss what it means to buy items using credit. Middle schoolers discuss how interest accrues and how much is really being paid with a credit card. Students...
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Simple Addition with Pictures

For Students 1st
In this addition worksheet, 1st graders count the objects in the boxes and write the sum for five problems with number from 0 to 5.
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HW #25: Inverse Variation

For Students 9th - 12th
In this variation worksheet, students solve 9 short answer problems. Students use inverse variation to find missing values given an algebra sentence or two ordered pairs.
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Twenty-Nine Various Exponential Function Problems

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this exponential growth and decay worksheet, students identify equations as growth or decay, find balance in an account, find half-life, identify interest rate, identify the initial amount, and identify the growth factor. 
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Finding Area Using Geometry, Integrals, and Riemann Sums

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this area worksheet, students calculate area in five problems using geometry and integrals and find patterns using Riemann sums in one problem.
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What Would You Do Without Nonprofits?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research nonprofit organizations within their community. In this nonprofits lesson plan, students use the yellow pages to identify the number of nonprofit organizations in their community. Students graph the number of nonprofit...
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Geometric Probablitiy: Spinners and Dartboards

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Slearners explore and analyze the properties of geometric areas.  In this geometry lesson, sstudents use technology to simulate spinners and dartboards in order to fing areas of circles and sectors of circles and compare and...
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Using Recipes to Reinforce Fractions

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students, in groups, make a presentation to the class explaining how and what they did to increase the recipe they were given so that they would have the correct amount of ingredients to make their pancakes for the whole class.
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Review of Calculus

For Students 12th
In this calculus worksheet, 12th graders solve problems that cover a variety of topics, including limits, derivatives, integrals, and problem solving.  The one page interactive worksheet contains forty-eight questions and is self...
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Review of Calculus BC II

For Students 11th - 12th
For this Calculus worksheet, students assess their understanding of various topics, including the derivatives of trigonometric functions, evaluating integrals, sigma notation, and convergent and divergent series.  The one page...
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Zeros and Blackbirds

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders convert kilometers to miles and calculate the range that historical aircraft can travel. They choose destinations by distance that can be traveled without refueling.