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Stamps and Yo-yo

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discuss items people collect, such as stamps and baseball cards, solve related word problems to practice adding and subtracting tens, complete worksheet, and share items they do or would like to collect with classmates.
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Subtraction Worksheet

For Students 1st
In this subtraction worksheet, 1st graders practice their subtraction skills by subtracting the numbers and solving the 20 single and double digit problems.
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Subsidence/ Erosion

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students utilize prior knowledge about the Pontchartrain Basin. In this subsidence/erosion lesson, students study the chart on land subsidence and must them identify and find solution for problems caused by erosion.
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Expressions Involving Variables

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice translating verbal expressions into algebraic expressions. In this introductory algebra instructional activity, 6th graders practice writing written/verbal sentences into algebraic expressions and vice versa....
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DatabaseProblem Solving: World Work Organization

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use sorting and searching techniques to solve a specific problem using a prepared database.
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Setting Solutions

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils piece together a quilt from leftover blocks. They problem-solve ways to incorporate random block designs into a visually pleasing quilt design. They used sashed sets, coping stripes and triangles to work out the design.
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Project Description

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in using the Internet to solve problems. The skill of problem solving is developed and technology skills are used to solve a student picked problem. The lesson targets the middle school audience.
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Krypto

For Students 7th - 8th
In this mathematical expressions worksheet, students solve 6 different problems that include deciphering various sets of numbers. First, they use any known mathematical operation or symbol in each to create the number 15. Then, students...
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Using Expressions and Equations

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders analyze expressions and equations. In this algebra lesson plan, 6th graders write algebraic sentences and solve for an unknown in a one-step equation. This lesson plan uses the formulas for the perimeter of a square and...
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Links Away: Looking Back and Moving Forward

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore fact families. In this math activity, students use links to model a fact family. Students solve addition and subtraction problems.
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What Difference Does it Make How Old I Am?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners identify subtle messages advertisers send (often unintentionally) about age in the course of trying to sell products; to analyze the consequences, both positive and negative, those messages have on the American audience; to...
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The Virginia Assembly

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine the first permanent English settlement in America. Using the Internet, they identify the importance of the Virginia assembly. They answer questions based on different scenarios given to them by their teacher and how...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Tangram Challenges

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore geometric concepts by working with Tangram Puzzles. In this Tangram challenge lesson, students use problem-solving tasks that involve physical manipulatives. Students select a picture and use all seven pieces...
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Draw your Conclusions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze data from a student discussion website and write a report on the outcome of an investigation regarding their local water quality. As part of a larger unit students then post the summary of their investigation on the...
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Coordinates

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore plotting on a coordinate plane. They visit a given website and play a game called, "Billy Bug." Students use coordinates to guide the bug to its food. Afterward, they complete follow-up problems to reinforce the...
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Coordinates

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore a plotting on a coordinate plane. Using a specified website, they play a "Maze Game" where they navigate a robot through a minefield. As students work through the problems, the rigor of the problems increase. ...
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Alike and Different

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students compare and contrast objects and are introduced to a Venn Diagram. In this alike and different lesson plan, students make observations regarding properties of objects. Students classify object and build ideas about variables....
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Students helping Students

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars learn what communities include and how they impact individuals. They learn how to solve community problems, and to create an asset map. Students learn to also identify resources in their community to put on the map.
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Entry 1 Numeracy Practice--B

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this numeracy practice worksheet, students answer thirteen word problems by following the directives given as they read through each one.
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Subtraction Worksheet

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this subtraction skills worksheet, students solve 4 problems that require them to subtract visual number sentences by counting the pictures, writing equations, and finding the differences.
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Air Quality Issues

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study and chart the levels of the atmosphere. They determine volume and location of the whole in the ozone layer by problem solving and drawing Antarctica.
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Coding with Linear Equation

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars explore linear equations. They participate in a simulation to save the International Space Station from intruders. Students create linear equations to save the Space Station from aliens.
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Longer or Shorter Introduction

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students look at objects and compare them using the words longer or shorter. In this longer or shorter lesson plan, students compare 2 objects for each problem.
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Demand and Supply-It's What Economics Is About!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in research that investigates the economic concept of supply and demand. They look at the problem and how it can shift periodically in an economy. Students graph different quantities and see the shift in a visual way and...