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Share: 5 Problem Solving Activities for the Classroom
Problem-solving skills are necessary for all areas of life, and classroom problem-solving activities can be a great way to get students prepped and ready to solve real problems in real-life scenarios. Here are five classroom...
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Positive Choices: Decision Making and Problem Solving: Class Activity
The aim of this activity is to teach learners the steps involved in effective decision-making/problem-solving. This skill is a useful skill for students to learn, as it will assist learners to consider all the options that are available...
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Number Power Activity Plan
In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will use number powers to solve problems and save the day! They will use grouping power to save a parade, skip counting power to catch a pie-snatching thief, and speed counting and place...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Bridge Challenge
This interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," use your knowledge of bridge design to match the right bridge location in a fictitious city.
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Tower Power Returns: Engineering Is Elementary
"In this activity from Engineering is Elementary, students design, build, and test a tower that can hold up a stuffed animal. The activity is useful for introducing components of Engineering Design (ETS) from the Next Generation Science...
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National Museum of Wildlife Art: Online Programs
Take a virtual field trip and use these lessons while exploring wildlife art collections online. Utilize these lessons to integrate art with writing, problem solving, and other activities that may already be taking place in your classroom.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Linear Quadratic Systems
A lesson, practice exercise, and resource for use when planning classroom instruction on linear quadratic systems. Find definitions, example equations and graphs, a four-question quiz with solutions, and an activity through which...
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Texas Instruments: Matrices and Vectors
In this activity, students learn to create and edit a matrix using the matrix editor. They use various features in the calculator to perform elementary row operations and convert a matrix to its reduced row echelon form. Finally they...
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Pbs: Modeling Fraction Division, Equal Groups, Group Size Unknown
This animated video illustrates a word problem that requires dividing two fractions with equal groups, group size unknown. Students are presented with a problem that asks how long it takes a sloth to climb down a tree trunk at an even...
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Pbs: The Lowdown: Living Wages in Ca: Ratio and Rate in the Real World
In this KQED infographic, find out how much an adult in different-sized households needs to make to pay for basic monthly living expenses. In the accompanying classroom activity, students solve real-life problems involving rate and ratio...