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Reducing Fractions to Lowest Terms
In this fraction activity, learners reduce thirteen fraction to lowest terms. The activity provides an example problem worked given the procedure and showing each step.
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Comparison of Two Different Gender Sports Teams - Part 1 of 3 Measures of Central Tendency
Young scholars gather and analyze data from sports teams. In this measures of central tendency lesson, students gather information from websites about sports team performance. Young scholars analyze and draw conclusions from this data....
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SAT Grid Ins Practice Test 3
In this SAT grid in worksheet, students solve 10 practice SAT type problems. Students determine average, volume of prisms, sum of angles, etc.
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SOL Review
For this SOL worksheet, students solve inequalities, identify equivalent fractions and graph polynomial functions. They find the geometric means and compute average rates. This eight-page worksheet contains 20 multiple-choice...
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Which Graph is best?
Students use commercial software to organize and visually display data to draw conclusions; students use graphing software to create several types of graphs illustrating the number of each color of M&M's in one bag.
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"Sir Cumference and the First Round Table" by Cindy Neuschwander
Students experiment with rearranging shapes to better visualize the Congruence and relationship of geometric shapes.
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Ovals, Rectangles, Squares, and Triangles
Students identify geometrical shapes displayed in photographs of everyday objects in a metropolitan setting.
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Points in a Complex Plane -- Lecture
Learners review plotting points on a coordinate plane. Individually, they add and subtrace complex numbers and graph them in a complex plane. They follow along a worksheet while their teacher lectures on the new material and solve...
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Searching for Patterns
In these patterns worksheets, learners complete 4 pages of activities for patterns. Students improve their visual interpretation skills with the activities.
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Graphs And Ellipses
Students become acquainted with linear graphs, the parabola and the rectangular hyperbola. Also prepare tables of paired values as preparation for plotting a line. They study the cartesian equation of an ellipse, with a worked example.
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Graphs and Ellipses
Students explore linear graphs, the parabola and the rectangular hyperbola.
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Telling Time: Hours
Students participate in a discussion about the different types of timepieces and the energy sources necessary to run them. They observe the numbers on a clock and review the hands and what they mean and make individual clocks using a...
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Parallax
High schoolers discover how astronomers used the diameter of the Earth's orbit around the Sun as a baseline for estimating the distance of some stars, and the meaning of "Parsec" and "light year."
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Research Cruise Word Problems Lesson Plan
Students explore life onboard the NOAA Research Vessel Ronald H. Brown and practice basic arithmetic by completing word problems.
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Research Cruise Word Problems
Young scholars examine life aboard the NOAA research vessel, Ronald H. Brown. They complete word problems related to the vessel, and then create three problems of their own.
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Fraction Manipulatives
In these fraction worksheets, 5th graders use the fraction manipulatives to help them learn and visualize fractions. Students then solve 5 fraction problems.
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Ellipses And Kepler's First Law
Students explain that planets actually orbit the center of gravity of the solar system, and that distant planets may be detected by motions of their central star around the centers of gravity of their planetary systems.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 3: Moo-vin
Second graders practice new geometry vocabulary by putting the words to the tune of "Hokey Pokey." students use the lyrics as a guided reading experience.
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Shapes
Students discuss different shapes each day of the week. Students connect shapes they are learning to shapes they see in the real world.
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Shapes, Shapes Everywhere!
Sixth graders investigate the geometric concept of shapes. They locate shapes in their immediate environment and label them according to basic shape. The shapes that are found are recorded by the teacher on chart paper and any...
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Using Polynomials To Find Perimeter
Fifth graders engage in the solving of a real life application problem using the concept of calculating perimeter. They apply the operations of calculating with the polynomials for finding the perimeter of triangles,quadrilaterals, and...
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Absolute Value of Linear Functions
Students discover how abolute value affects linear functions. They complete a worksheet simulating a path for miniature golf hole in one for three figures. They construct a hole in one graph for each hole marking the X and Y coordinates.
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Absolute Value of Linear Functions
Students identify and interpret how absolute value affects linear functions. They also graph linear functions and reflect them in a line of symmetry. Finally, students evaluate the absolute value of a constant using technology to...