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Probability: 3
In this probability learning exercise, students complete probability word problems involving one digit numbers. Students complete 6 problems total.
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Puzzle Potpourri
In this math word problems learning exercise, students solve math word problems which are read like puzzles in groups. Students complete 5 word problems containing one to three digit numbers.
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Arithmetic Tricks
In this basic arithmetic activity, 6th graders solve 6 math problems. The problems include a variety of addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
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Piggy Bank Math
Students practice solving money problems. In this counting coins lesson, students follow the outlined steps and use mixed operations to determine the coin combinations needed to solve a math word problem.
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Thinking!!!
In this mathematical concepts worksheet, students complete math word problems dealing with fractions, multiplication, probability, and more. Students complete 8 problems total.
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Fraction Fest!
In this fractions worksheet, students complete fraction word problems, shade fourths in a chart, and complete shape problems having to do with fractions. Students complete 7 problems total.
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Math Club #28: Puzzle Potpourri
In this puzzle potpourri learning exercise, 8th graders work in groups to solve 5 word problems requiring logic and problem solving skills.
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Math Club #7: Logic
For this logic worksheet, 8th graders work in groups to solve 8 math problems requiring critcial thinking skills.
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Teen Pregnancy: Investigating Cubic Functions
In this teen pregnancy worksheet, students use a scatter plot and cubic functions to solve word problems about teen pregnancy. Students complete 7 problems.
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Max's Math Adventures
In this math worksheet, students read a rhyming poem about Max's adventure, then answer a word problem, complete 5 questions using a map of the bicycle route Max used.
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Addition Patterns
In this addition patterns worksheet, students respond to 7 questions that require them to fill in the missing numbers in 7 patterns and then describe each of the patterns in their own words.
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Sum Choice
In this algebraic thinking worksheet, students are provided with the challenge of finding the sum of 100 by adding up a given list of 2 digit numbers. This worksheet contains 1 problem to solve and the solution.
Annenberg Foundation
Poetry of Liberation
How do writers use words to protest injustice, challenge the status quo, and shape their own identities? Individuals watch and discuss a video, read author biographies, write poetry and journals, develop a slideshow, and complete a...
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
Those "Other Rights:" The Constitution and Slavery
Did the United States Constitution uphold the institution of slavery, or did it help to destroy it? Young historians study Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution and evaluate the rights of slaveowners as they compared to...
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Patterns and Pentominoes
Students solve pentomino puzzles. In this problem solving lesson, students discuss how pentomino puzzles play into the plot of Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett and practice solving a pentomino puzzle on their own....
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Experiments with Inscribed Angles
Right angles, acute angles, obtuse angles, central angles, inscribed angles: how many types of angles are there? Learners first investigate definitions of inscribed angles, central angles, and intercepted arcs. The majority of the...
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Team Assignment - A Parking Dilemma
Class groups are challenged to solve the school’s parking problem. Each team must establish ground rules for their discussion, determine criteria that must be met, and brainstorm possible solutions. Next, they agree on one solution and...
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Sentence Combining/Sentence Variety
Challenge your writers to improve their writing by introducing them to 10 strategies they can use to vary their sentence structures. Each strategy is described and examples given. Pupils then create their own sentences using this...
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Be Screen Free for a Week
Challenge yourself to completely close all of your electronic screens for seven straight days!
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Managing Change
Learning to embrace the opportunities and challenges change presents is the focus of the exercises and activities in this fifth session of a 10-lesson course on Social, Physical, Emotional, Cognitive and Spiritual (SPECS) health....
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Cooperative Group Spelling Game
Partners or groups work together to practice the correct spelling of words. They speed-cut letters from print sources and arrange them into correctly spelled words from their lists. Newspapers are suggested, but magazines might result in...
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Fish Tale
Here is a cute problem that requires visualizing two-dimensional shapes within a three-dimensional object, and using properties of triangles and the Pythagorean theorem to solve a real-world problem. There is a small mistake in this...
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Comparison Shopping—Unit Price and Related Measurement Conversions II
Which rate is greater and by how much? Pupils continue to compare rates to solve problems in the 20th portion of a 29-part series. Rates are presented in a variety of representations either using the same representation or different...
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Advanced 4: Searching for Evidence for Research Tasks
Research was very different in the past. Pupils once had difficulty finding sufficient information, but now they have the opposite problem. Show your class how to pick the best resources out of the millions of sites an online search will...