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Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Solving Equations Using Balance Scale, Decomposition, and Graphing

For Teachers 7th - 9th
There's more than one way to solve an equation — three, actually. Scholars learn how to solve simple linear equations in one variable using three different methods, which include using balance scales, using decomposition (e.g., turning...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Tax, Commissions, Fees, and Other Real-World Percent Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
Pupils work several real-world problems that use percents in the 11th portion of a 20-part series. The problems contain percents involved with taxes, commissions, discounts, tips, fees, and interest. Scholars use the equations formed for...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Make a Table

For Students 1st - 2nd
First and second graders participate in an experiment then create a table of tally marks to identify the totals. They problem solve, tally twenty experiences, and generate an answer to one question.
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Assessment
Mathed Up!

Solving Simultaneous Equations Graphically

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
The solution resides at the intersection. Pupils use a short instructional activity to review the process of solving a system of linear equations using graphing. The instructional activity provides completed graphs for most of the items,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tim and Pat at the Store: Bar Graphs

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Do you like candy? Tim and Pat go to the candy store every day after school. Can you use the chart to determine how much money they spend each day? Does one spend more than the other? 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving: Use a Graph 3

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this math problem solving learning exercise, students examine a graph based on books read and use it to solve 2 problem solving questions and a test prep question.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Markup and Markdown Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
There is a 100 percent chance this resource will help pupils connect percents to financial literacy. Young mathematicians use their knowledge of percents to find markups and markdowns in financial situations in the seventh segment in a...
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EngageNY

Graphing Systems of Equations

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Expand on learners' understanding of quadratic-linear systems. Building on the graphic understanding developed in the previous lesson, pupils learn algebraic methods of solving the systems. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Bar Graphs

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Working on bar graphs in your math class? Use a thorough worksheet to reinforce graphing and problem solving skills with your third graders. After reviewing two bar graphs, young learners answer ten questions about the data represented...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Leveled Problem Solving: Range and Outliers

For Students 6th - 9th
In this range and outliers worksheet, students solve 6 word problems where they examine data then identify outliers, find the upper and lower quartile ranges, find the interquartile range and create box-and-whisker plots.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphing Difference

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students use problem solving skills to reason, predict and problem solve through exploration. They recognize a way in which they are different from their peers and create a graph that shows these differences.
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Lesson Plan
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Kenan Fellows

Reading Airline Maintenance Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Airline mechanics must be precise, or the consequences could be deadly. Their target ranges alter with changes in temperature and pressure. When preparing an airplane for flight, you must read a maintenance graph. The second lesson of...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Graphs Can Solve Equations Too

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
There are many equations Algebra I learners are not ready to solve. Graphing to solve gives them a strategy to use when they are unsure of an algebraic approach to solve the problem. The lesson exposes learners to a wide variety of types...
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Worksheet
Lake Zurich Community Unit

Inequality Word Problems

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
This inequality word problems activity is ideal to assess your learners' understanding of inequality and linear concepts around solving and writing equations and inequalities. Equations, graphs and real-life scenarios are used to assure...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Another Computational Model of Solving a Linear System

For Teachers 8th Standards
The process of elimination really works! Use elimination when substitution isn't doing the job. The 29th segment in a series of 33 introduces the elimination method to solving linear systems. Pupils work several exercises to grasp the...
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Solving Inequalities

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
What does solving an inequality have in common with solving an equation? Almost everything! A math resource focuses on the one exception. The examples lead learners through the steps of solving an equality when multiplying or dividing by...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using Graphs

For Students 9th - 11th
Print and use this useful unit on basic algebraic functions, domain, range, and graphing. Tasks include, illustrating simple functions with a graph, and identifying the domain and range of the function. This twelve-page packet contains...
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Solving Equations and Inequalities with Absolute Value

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
The concept of absolute value can be difficult for learners to grasp. Reinforce their understanding of a basic absolute value expression and connect it to solving equations and inequalities. Scholars write two equations/inequalities to...
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Handout
Charleston School District

Solving Systems by Inspection

For Students 8th Standards
Can you solve a system by just looking at it? The previous lessons in the series taught three methods of solving systems of equations. Now learners discover they can determine the number of solutions of a system just by looking at it....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Leveled Problem Solving: Circle Graphs

For Students 6th - 9th
In this circle graphs worksheet, learners solve 6 word problems based on a circle graph about the most popular classes for sixth graders. Students calculate angle measures of circles for 2 of the problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving: Use a Graph: Problem Solving

For Students 4th - 5th
In this bar graph worksheet, students read the word problem and use the bar graph to complete the problem solving questions for understand, plan, solve, and look back.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem Solving: Use a Bar Graph

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this using a bar graph to solve a word problem worksheet, students refer to the U.S. Radio Station Formats bar graph to write the steps needed to solve and explain how the bar graph helped solve the problem. Students write four short...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Model and Solve Algebraic Equations

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Examine multiple ways to solve algebraic equations. Pupils will generate a problem solving strategy that addresses the prompt given by the teacher. They will then share their problem solving strategy with the class. Graphic organizers,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Interpreting A Line Graph - Practice Problems 15.3

For Students 5th - 7th
For this interpreting a line graph worksheet, students read a graph and answer a question. Students are taken through the problem solving process by being asked to understand, plan, solve and look back at the end of the worksheet and...