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Groupon Math: Dollars or Cents
In this coupon math worksheet, 9th graders read two coupons and answer 4 questions about how the coupons work. Students must write written responses to explain problems with the coupons.
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Similar and Congruent Triangles
Students create and classify different types of triangles using an online geo-board. They explore the concepts of similar and congruent as they discover how to draw similar and congruent triangles.
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Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher
Students discover the connection between Escher's art and mathematics. They give various presentations based on their study.
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Women in Math
Students explore the concept of women in mathematics. In this women mathematicians lesson, students research the role of women in mathematics using books and the Internet.
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Use Information in Line, Bar, Circle, and Picture Graphs to Make Comparisons and Predictions
Eighth graders explore the concept of graphs. In this graphs lesson, 8th graders compare and contrast picture graphs, bar graphs, line graphs, and circle graphs. Students examine each type of graph and answer questions and make...
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Math/Quilt Connection
Students explore quilting. In this math patterns lesson plan, students define the perimeter of a quilt border, create tessellations using geometric shapes, and detemine the area of a quilt.
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Science and Technology
Students research inventions that have been created. In this historical technology lesson, students read the Harcourt Brace social studies textbook and discuss how inventors used graphs to display data. Students create a table to write...
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Data Displays with Excel
Students collect and analyze data. In this statistics lesson plan, students display their data using excel. They plot the data on a coordinate plane and draw conclusion from their data.
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Where's the Math?
Fourth graders create an original math problem with a detailed solution key relative to their chosen career fields.
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Math for the Frontier
Students explore the concept of inflation. In this inflation lesson plan, students compile a list of necessities they would need to take with them if they were moving to a new state next month. Students compare their list with that of...
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More Jelly Bean Math
Middle schoolers use their color categorized jelly beans to find the range, mean, median and mode. They use their recorded data documenting how many jelly beans there are for each color in order to calculate the range, mean, median and...
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Fractions: Mud Pie Math
Second graders identify and name fractional parts through the use of mud pie manipulatives. In this fractional manipulatives lesson, 2nd graders identify and label halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, eighths, and tenths and order them...
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Marvelous Math -- Colorful Fractions
Students begin the instructional activity by discovering that a fraction is one part of a whole. In groups, they practice reducting larger fractions into small fractions and discovering they are equal. They use blocks to identify the...
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Polygons and Plane Figures
Young scholars choose a polygon to define and describe, and use Power Point and the Internet to present their polygon.
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Shapes And Colors
Students distinguish between circles, squares, and rectangles and various colors in which they utilize the KidPix program on the computer to create them. They alternate; allowing each student to have a turn constructing and coloring in...
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What's Out There? Space Shuttle Exploration and Simulation
Learners role-play the jobs of space shuttle astronauts, conduct experiments, and research space using the Internet and offline experiments. Student-astronauts hold a "press conference" to share their information with others in a...
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Polygons And Polyhedra
Students recognize and name two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometric figures. One group of students will extend the study of polygons to quadrilaterals while another group of students will extend the study of polygons to...
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Bears, Bears, and More Bears!
Pupils learn the different kinds of bears, discover how bears move, andlearn what bears eat. They also explore bear habitats and list the differences between real bears and imaginary or fantasy bears
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Learning about Shapes with Tangrams and the Net
Students use tangrams, student literature, and Websites to explore shapes.
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Investigate the Rigid Motions of Reflection, Rotation, Translation, and Dilation
Students investigate the rigid motions of reflection, rotation, translation, and dilation. This investigation be accomplished through classroom instruction and exploration using Geometer's Sketchpad.
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Time Travel, Black Holes, and Relativity
Young scholars read the novel, The Time Machine, and compare H.G. Well's perceptions of the future with those presented in The Third Wave, by Alvin Toffler. They research current scientific and mathematical theories that relate to space...
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Exploring Customary and Metric Systems
Students investigate and measure using the metric and customary units. In this math instructional activity, students investigate which method is used most worldwide, the metric or the customary. They convert from unit to...
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Coin Tossing and Graphing
Fifth graders use technology as assistance to collecting random data. Through the random data they will be able to explain the significance of getting a head or tail depending on what was previously landed on. They will then analyze the...
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Trends of Snow Cover and Temperature in Alaska
Learners compare NASA satellite data observations with student surface measurements of snow cover and temperature. They practice data collection, data correlations, and making scientific predictions.