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Hot Cans and Cold Cans

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students investigate the physics of heating and cooling through conduction, convection, and radiation. Working in groups, they determine the best way to cool a can of water and warm a can of water. Temperature is taken at five minute...
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Weather With a Latitude

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read the temperature from a thermometer. In this weather instructional activity, students read a thermometer and record the temperature at twenty minute intervals. Students discuss results.
Worksheet
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Cookie Recipe: Integrals

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this calculus activity, students solve integrals over a defined interval in order to gain the measurements for the provided cookie recipe. There are 10 ingredients.
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Charleston School District

Sketching a Piecewise Function

For Students 8th - 9th Standards
How do you combine linear and nonlinear functions? You piece them together! The lesson begins by analyzing given linear piecewise functions and then introduces nonlinear parts. Then the process is reversed to create graphs from given...
Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Printing Tickets

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Determine the better deal. Pupils write the equation for the cost of printing tickets from different printers. They compare the costs graphically and algebraicaly to determine which printer has the best deal based upon the quantity of...
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EngageNY

Decimal Expansions of Fractions, Part 2

For Students 8th Standards
Develop your pupils' understanding of fractions and their decimal equivalence using the 12th lesson in this series. Scholars learn an alternative to long division that results in converting fractions to decimals that emphasize fractional...
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Virginia Department of Education

Functions 2

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Demonstrate linear and quadratic functions through contextual modeling. Young mathematicians explore both types of functions by analyzing their key features. They then relate these key features to the contextual relationship the function...
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Federal Reserve Bank

The Pickle Patch Bathtub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What do your pupils want to save up their money for? Based around the book The Pickle Patch Bathtub, this lesson covers opportunity cost, saving, and spending. Learners participate in a discussion and practice making their own...
Worksheet
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Maglev Train

For Students 9th - 11th
In this statistics worksheet, students collect data on train time using speed and time. They differentiate between the upper and lower bound of their data. There are 7 questions on 2 pages.
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Lesson #20 Rates of Change and Velocity

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate speed. In this rate of change instructional activity, students complete a rate/time/distance table to determine the average m.p.h. of a given trip. They listen and follow along with the lecture and examples to...
Worksheet
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Designing a Speedometer

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students analyze the designs of a speedometer. They collect data on the distance and time as the speedometer works. They draw conclusion and make predictions from the collected data. There are 4 word problems.
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Straight Line Motion with a Stomper

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars explore average speed, and graph distances and time.  In this speed and velocity lesson students complete a lab then calculate distances, acceleration and velocity and graph the data.
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Black Holes... What's inside IX

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this space science worksheet, students solve 7 problems related to black hole space and time. They answer questions related to the spacetime dimension.
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Shadows

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students measure shadows at different times of the day to determine when a shadow casts its longest and shortest shadows.
Lesson Plan
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Swingers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the motion of a swinging pendulum. They experiment with a pendulum to find out why it might swing at different speeds at different times.
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The Mysterious Hexagon on Saturn!

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Saturn worksheet, students use a photograph of a hexagon feature on Saturn to solve three problems. These include finding the time it takes for the jet stream to complete one circuit around the hexagon, to find the size of the...
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Water Cycle

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate, develop inferences, and differentiate between different elements of the water cycle. They investigate the observable characteristics of evaporation and condensation over specific time periods
Worksheet
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The Cross Country Problem

For Students 7th - 12th
In this cross country problem, students determine the order that runners finished.  They use logic and algebraic clues to determine the first and second place winners.  This worksheet contains 7 problems.  The answers...
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Planning a Railroad Online Lesson

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students design a train route using a topographical map. In this historical and spatial thinking lesson plan, students must plan a route through the Sierra Nevada mountains that a train could physically travel. Links to printable student...
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Timed Multiplication Test Graphs

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners use the tools of data analysis for managing information. They solve problems by generating, collecting, organizing, displaying histograms on bar graphs, circle graphs, line graphs, pictographs and charts. Students determine...
Worksheet
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Histograms: Homework

For Students 5th - 6th
In this histograms worksheet, students learn how to make a histogram. Students give graphs a title, draw the axes, label the vertical axis, choose an appropriate scale, and mark equal intervals. Students label the horizontal axis with...
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Fitness Lesson- Body Composition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list and define the 3 basic body types, then execute the basic fundamentals in an interval training warm-up. They measure their own body fat %, then execute basic techniques involved in a game of Ultimate Frisbee.
Worksheet
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Mr. Robert's Robots

For Students 6th - 7th
In this problem solving worksheet, students solve 5 problems pertaining to the specific actions each of 3 robots are programmed to do. Students study the actions for each robot at the intervals specified and solve the problems.
Worksheet
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Worksheet 21 Spring 1996

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students consider a path around the unit circle parameterized by σ on the interval [0, 1] with σ(t) = sin(5πt − π), cos(5πt − π). Then they find the vector.

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