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Willow Tree

Extremes, Range, and Quartiles

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The middle of the data is important, but what about the rest of it? The lesson shows learners the importance of the range, quartiles, and extreme values. Pupils practice finding each of these values from given data sets.
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Virginia Department of Education

Balancing Act

For Teachers 6th Standards
How many different interpretations of the mean are there? Scholars place numbers on a number line and determine the mean. They interpret the mean as the average value and as the balance point.
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Latitude

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young geologists generate a graph given a table of values from the context of latitude and percent of the earth's surface north of that latitude. The questions in the activity then focus the learners to a deeper understanding of the...
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You Can Count on Spelling

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Here is a cross-curricular activity that is suitable for virtually any grade level! Learners calculate the mathematical value of their spelling words using the letter tiles from a Scrabble game and identify the spelling word with the...
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Curated OER

Art Around the World

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
The non-fiction book Art Around the World by Heather Leonard serves as inspiration for learning how art reflects cultures and values. New vocabulary and background knowledge are fleshed out before reading the story. Afterward, the class...
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EngageNY

Representations of a Line

For Teachers 8th Standards
Explore how to graph lines from different pieces of information. Scholars learn to graph linear functions when given an equation, given two points that satisfy the function, and when given the initial value and rate of change. They solve...
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Curated OER

Bouncing Ball

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students collect height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2™ data collection device. Using a quadratic equation they graph scatter plots, graph and interpret a quadratic function, apply the vertex form of a quadratic...
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The "U's" Have IT!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explore the maximum and minimum values of parabola. In this exponential equations lesson plan, students use graphing calculators or TI Interactive Software to calculate values of parabola and graph x-intercepts of parabola.
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Using Plant Pigments to Link a Suspect to a Crime

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use chromatography to separate plant pigments collected from a fictitious crime scene and suspects. They compare the Rf values of the plant pigments to determine whether the plant pigments found on any of the suspects match the...
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Equal Differences Over Equal Intervals 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your algebra learners explore linear functions concretely using tables of values in a collaborative task. The idea that linear function values change by equal differences over equal intervals, is emphasized. The slope and...
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Curated OER

Self-Portraits

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create self-portrait showing value and emotion, and gather information about color and emotion through different handheld applications.
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Willow Tree

Percent of Change

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Your car decreases in value from $20,000 to $17,000. What percent of the value have you lost? Pupils answer word problems by determining the percent of change. 
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EngageNY

Addition and Subtraction Formulas 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Knowing the addition formulas allows for the calculations of double and half formulas. The fourth installment of 16 has the class use the addition formula to develop the double angle trigonometric formulas. Using the double formula,...
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EngageNY

Find Solutions to Make Equations True

For Teachers 6th Standards
The truth is always best. Individuals continue to find values that make equations true in the 26th installment of the 36-part module. The only difference is that they now call them solutions to those equations.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Flu on Campus

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
An outbreak of the swine flu on a school campus has caused an increase in the number of boxes of tissues sold by the school store. In a real-world-modeling activity, pupils use composition of functions to determine how the number of...
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CPM

Direct, Joint, and Inverse Variation

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Here is a quick guide to direct, joint, and inverse variation used in realistic situations. Each topic has a page of notes and examples followed by practice problems. The resource explains each type of variation and provides their...
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Curated OER

Goody Bags

For Teachers K Standards
Looking for Common Core math center ideas for your Kindergartners? This a great one that is easy to set up, change up, and can be individualized to the learning level of each child. Start with a collection of zippered plastic bags...
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Curated OER

China's 'One Child Policy'

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use an extract from Beth Gilligan's Voices and Values: Citizenship in Asia (Curriculum Corporation, 1998, pp 29-30), together with other resources, as the basis for investigation and analysis of China's 'one child policy'.
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Curated OER

Nutrition

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify food groups, foods that fit into those groups, and look at the nutritional value of each food group. They also discover how to interpret and understand food labels. The whole class makes some burgers and fries,...
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EngageNY

Percent Rate of Change

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
If mathematicians know the secret to compound interest, why aren't more of them rich? Young mathematicians explore compound interest with exponential functions in the twenty-seventh installment of a 35-part module. They calculate future...
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EngageNY

Graphing Cubic, Square Root, and Cube Root Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Is there a relationship between powers and roots? Here is a lesson that asks individuals to examine the graphical relationship. Pupils create a table of values and then graph a square root and quadratic equation. They repeat the process...
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EngageNY

Addition and Subtraction Formulas 1

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Show budding mathematicans how to find the sine of pi over 12. The third instructional activity in a series of 16 introduces the addition and subtraction formulas for trigonometric functions. Class members derive the formulas using...
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EngageNY

Modeling Linear Relationships

For Teachers 8th Standards
Math modeling is made easy with the first installment of a 16-part module that teaches pupils to model real-world situations as linear relationships. They create graphs, tables of values, and equations given verbal descriptions.
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EngageNY

Estimating Digits in a Quotient

For Students 6th Standards
Boiling down any division problem to a one-digit divisor problem sure makes estimation easy. The lesson shows how to estimate division problems by using place value understanding and basic arithmetic facts to simplify the division. Some...

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