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DEAD MAN'S CURVE
Ninth graders, after being given a unique scenario and a task sheet on Dead Man's Curve, calculate and explain the force needed to keep a car on a curve using a set of formulas and a geometric property of circles. They utilize and create...
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Investigating: Finding the Volume
Sixth graders explore geometry by utilizing colored cubes in class. In this volume activity, 6th graders identify the different shapes they can create using their colored cubes and identify the formula for finding volume. Students create...
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Finding Patterns in Tiles
Students explore perimeter and area of rectangles. In this rectangular lesson, students use tiles to discover the formulas for perimeter and area. Students solve for area.
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Tilted Squares and Right Triangles
Students investigate squares. They generate patterns from structured situations and find a rule for the general term and express it using words and symbols. Students generate patterns from a rule and substitute values and formulas.
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Challenge: Into the Pool
On this area and perimeter instructional activity, designers use a diagram of a Koi pool with its surrounding walkway surrounding and the appropriate mathematical formulas to solve a set of four word problems. An answer key follows the...
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A Basin Filled With Time
Students use fossil leaves and a mathematical formula to study climate change. In this climate change and fossil lesson plan, students determine the differences in temperatures during two different times during the Cenozoic era using...
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Oscillations
Students construct and compare the actions of various pendulums. In this pendulum motion lesson, students build and test different types of pendulums. They conduct experiments with the length of the swing arm and apply mathematical...
Dick Blick Art Materials
Start with a Circle...
The Golden Ratio. The Divine Proportion. Yup. It's math and art blended into one colorful activity. Young artists combine colored tissue paper circles and parts of circles to create geometric patterns. As a bonus, kids get to figure out...
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Measuring Activities
Students measure using both metric and standard measures. They convert from one standard to the next while measuring distances in their home or classroom.
Teach Engineering
Solenoids
Metal slinkies, coils of wire, magnetic fields, and MRIs. To determine the safety hazards of MRI machines, class members use the provided formula to calculate the magnetic field along the axis of the solenoid.
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Discovering Ohm's Law
Connect math with science! Pupils apply properties of Ohms Law as they solve problems and identify the inverse relationship of a function. They analyze the shape of the graph of an inverse function and use it to make predictions.
Illustrative Mathematics
Slopes and Circles
An upper-level treatment of what is often presented as a basic concept (the right angle of an inscribed circle on the diameter), this activity really elevates the mathematical thought of the learner! Expected to develop formulas...
BW Walch
Linear & Exponential Functions
Positioned inside the framework of linear and exponential functions, this lesson is more of an investigation into the effects of changing variables and constants inside an expression. The author takes familiar formulas, those for...
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Connecting Area Formulas Produces a Beautiful Formula
For this math worksheet, students find the area of the triangle using the formula of 1/2 bh. Then they find the area using an alternative method.
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Mathematics B: High School Exam
In this mathematics activity, students solve problems about numerous high school topics including trigonometry, algebra, and pre-calculus. This activity contains, but is not limited to, radicals, inverse functions, transformations, and...
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Babylonian Mathematics 2
Students research Babylonian mathematics. They calculate simple surd numbers. Students find the fractional form of rational numbers expressed as decimals. They work with numbers in base 60.
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Defined Operation; Find Formula
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students are provided with an example of a new operation and determine the formula for the new operation. The one page worksheet contains one problem with the solution. Solution is provided
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Mathematical Modeling, Circular Movement and Transmission Ratios
Young scholars perform an experiment with different sizes of followers (from an easy to follow set of teacher directions) and record their observations. They test the rotations of the driver compared to the rotations of a follower and...
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Exercising With the Mathematical Induction Principle
In this math worksheet, students apply the Mathematical Induction Principle. Then they find patterns for the sums. They also read the subsequent proofs for the Induction Principle.
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Mathematics B: New York High School Test
In this mathematics worksheet, students solve problems pertaining to high school mathematics. Problems include topics such as finding the sine, cosine and tangent. They graph functions, work with statistics, solve measurement problems,...
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Regents High School Examination Mathematics B
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students are presented with questions indicative of those on the Regents high school examination. The twenty-eight page worksheet contains a combination of thirty-four multiple choice and...
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Area of Parallelogram
For this Area of a Parallelogram worksheet, learners are asked to solve for area graphically and mathematically. Students are provided with geometric figures to work with.
Inside Mathematics
Quadratic (2009)
Functions require an input in order to get an output, which explains why the answer always has at least two parts. After only three multi-part questions, the teacher can analyze pupils' strengths and weaknesses when it comes to...
Noyce Foundation
Pizza Crusts
Enough stuffed crust to go around. Pupils calculate the area and perimeter of a variety of pizza shapes, including rectangular and circular. Individuals design rectangular pizzas with a given area to maximize the amount of crust and do...