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PBS

Pbs: The Story of India: Ancient and Medieval Mathematics in India

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes India's contribution to mathematics.
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Mars: Mathematics Assessment Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Mathematics Assessment Project aims to bring the Common Core State Standards (CCSSM) to life in a way that will help teachers and their students turn their aspirations for achieving them into classroom realities. The project's free...
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Core Plus: Discrete Mathematics

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
The Contemporary Mathematics in Context series provides a common core of broadly useful mathematics for all students. The discrete mathematics strand develops student ability to model and solve problems involving enumeration, sequential...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg How Many Leaves on a Tree?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a mathematical modeling task aimed at making a reasonable estimate for something which is too large to count accurately, the number of leaves on a tree, taking into account the tree size and the density of the leaves. Aligns with...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf 1,000 Is Half of 2,000

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task is about an online mathematics organization that is trying, over a four-year period, to generate 2,000 math problems that cover all grades. This real-life modeling task could serve as a summative exercise that draws on many...
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University at Buffalo

A Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographies of Blacks in mathematics from the 1700s to the present time.
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US Department of Education

Institute of Education Sciences: Students Struggling With Mathematics (Rti)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Taking early action may be key to helping students struggling with mathematics. The eight recommendations in this guide are designed to help teachers, principals, and administrators use Response to Intervention for the early detection,...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Which Is Heavier?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will learn the concept of weight by practicing weighing items on a balance scale and recording their results. Students can record their answers on the black line masters included in the Illustrated Mathematics lesson "How Heavy?".
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S id.a.3 Identifying Outliers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are asked to construct a box plot of the distances they live from school and describe the main features of the distribution. The purpose of this task is to develop students' understanding of how extreme data points...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Mathematics Illuminated: Combinatorics Counts

For Students 9th - 10th
Video presentation on combinatorics, or the "mathematics of counting complicated configurations." Offers several examples of combinatorics as used in real world situations and professions. [28:26]
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Mathematics Illuminated: Topology's Twists and Turns

For Students 9th - 10th
What is topology? And how does this area of mathematics allow us to study the shape and interconnectedness of the universe we live in? Video presentation answers these questions via a lively presentation of discussion, examples, and...
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Sorting Shapes [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
This task challenges a young scholars knowledge of 2-dimensional geometrical shapes to sort shapes and to design a shape that has a given set of attributes.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 1.oa Kiri's Mathematics Match Game

For Teachers 1st
In this lesson plan, 1st graders play a matching game to explore unknown numbers.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Inscribing a Square in a Circle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students learn how to inscribe a square in a circle. Aligns with G-CO.D.13
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Mixing Fertilizer

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A landscaping company prepares two mixtures of fertilizer. In this task, students investigate what happens to the value of an expression when a quantity is changed. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.3, N q.a.1, N q.a.2: Weed Killer

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The principal purpose of the task is to explore a real-world application problem with algebra, working with units and maintaining reasonable levels of accuracy throughout. Aligns with N-Q.A.3, N-Q.A.1, and N-Q.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S cp.a.3: Finding Probabilities of Compound Events

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Cecil has two six-sided dice, a red one and a white one. Aligns with S-CP.A.3.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S cp.b.9: Random Walk Iv

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity, which follows Random Walk III, is intended for instructional purposes only. The goal for students is to understand how to calculate and compare combinatorial symbols. Aligns with S-CP.B.9.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Midpoints of the Sides of a Paralellogram

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Suppose that ABCD is a parallelogram and that M and N are the midpoints of lines AB and CD respectively. Students are asked to prove that MN=AD, and that the line MN is parallel to line AD. Aligns with G-CO.C.11.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Showing a Triangle Congruence: A Particular Case

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Given two congruent triangles, students are asked to analyze the effects of different transformations. Aligns with G-CO.A.5.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Srt Dilating a Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students investigate a dilation of a line segment and how the length of the dilation relates to the scale factor. Aligns with G-SRT.A.1.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Rei: How Does the Solution Change?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to ask students to reason about solutions without explicitly solving them to get them to understand what it means for a number to be a solution to an equation. Aligns with A-REI.A.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Apr Trina's Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students investigate polynomial identities in order to generate Pythagorean triples. Aligns with A-APR.C.4.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Symmetries of Rectangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task examines the rigid motions which map a rectangle onto itself. The emphasis here is on careful reasoning using the definitions of reflections and rotations. Aligns with G-CO.A.3.

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