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Curated OER

Altitude and Flight Forces

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the World Wide Web to access and use FoilSim. They also use the World Wide Web to access the NASA Glenn Web site for information relative to the factors involved with the flight of an airplane.
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Curated OER

Bears

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of bear-related activities. They sort and graph teddy bears, distinguish between real and non-real bears and research bear life cycles and habitats.
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Curated OER

Save Your Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students solve problems involving exponential, logarithmic, and scientific notations. Using calculators, students explore investment problems. They use a formula and logarithms to determine the years to earn a particular income, figure...
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Curated OER

Squirt

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders using the idea of "how many more squirts" fill a container to develop multiplicative thinking. They also investigate the idea of conservation of volume when working with oddly shaped containers. They attempt to use...
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Curated OER

Mathematical Relationships

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students practice graphing a linear equation and a parabolic equation. They work cooperatively to select numbers, including fractions, which they will put into ordered pairs. Students explain their process to the class, discussing what...
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Curated OER

Wing Specifications

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders use FoilSim to fulfill the specifications of a given airfoil (wing) and plot and interpret graphs.
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Curated OER

Square Milk Bottle Crates

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students attempt a problem that Students has the potential to have more than one solution. Hence the problem is accessible to a wide range of students. The problem is essentially about finding patterns and this is typical of a number of...
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Curated OER

Math: Who Makes an Epidemic?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students calculate the threshold value for the number of susceptible people needed to create an epidemic. They examine a real life flu epidemic and use the SIR model to solve the problems. Students discover they can use mathematics to...
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Curated OER

Statistical Accuracy and Reliability

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders assess the accuracy and reliability of current survey data and how it is represented. They design a survey, collect data, and use technology to analyze the data and present the results. Students examine scatter plots and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Exploring Expressions and Equations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Teaching unit allows learners to develop key skills in expressions and equations while learning the value of these concepts through the lens of adventure sports.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Equivalent Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This multi-segment lesson plan uses games and calculators to explore the concept of equivalent expressions. Students work together using inverse operations to isolate variables in algebraic equations. It also provides attachments for...
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Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 12: Exponential Functions, Equations, Expressions and Radicals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson 2 of 4 for Passport to Advanced Math. Students will build quadratic and exponential functions that model a given context; solve radical equations; work with rational expressions, including fractions with a variable in the...
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Other

Nearpod: Evaluating Expressions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson on evaluating expressions, students will learn how to evaluate expressions for given values using the order of operations.
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Other

Nearpod: Solving Linear Equations in One Variable

For Teachers 8th Standards
In this activity, 8th graders will learn how to solve linear equations in one variable including equations with one solution, no solution, and infinite solutions.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Equivalent Expressions

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
In this problem, we have to transform expressions using the distributive, commutative and associative properties to decide which expressions are equivalent. Common mistakes are addressed, such as not distributing the 2 correctly. Aligns...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Animal Populations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students have to interpret expressions involving two variables in the context of a real-world problem about animal populations. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1, A-SSE.A.1.a, and A-SSE.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Apr Egyptian Fractions Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, young scholars will rewrite fractions as a sum of distinct unit fractions. To solve the problem, students will rewrite a simple rational expression and will need to study the arithmetic of these unit fractions with a...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Triangular Tables

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This task provides a good opportunity for group work and class discussions where students generate and compare equivalent expressions. In class discussion, students should be asked to connect the terms of an expression with quantities...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.3.a and a sse.a.2: Cubic Identity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This task presents a challenging exercise in both algebraic manipulations and seeing structure in algebraic expressions. Aligns with A-SSE.B.3.a and A-SSE.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Miles to Kilometers

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson, 7th graders write algebraic expressions and determine if they have the same answer.
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Student Achievement Partners

Illustrative Mathematics: Fishing Adventures [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students use a model to define variables, write expressions, create an inequality and then interpreting the results in this lesson.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.1: Planes and Wheat

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an exercise in creating equations from a situation with many variables. By giving three different scenarios, learners will be reviewing their definitions of the variables to emphasize the importance of defining variables when...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Calendar Fun Operations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to help students evaluate numerical expressions by using order of operations. The students will be provided a calendar for the current month of the year. Students will then be provided with a worksheet that...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Busy Day

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This problem can be solved using simple arithmetical reasoning but is also naturally represented by a simple equation. Thus, it provides a good entry point for students into representing quantities in contexts with variables and...