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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Dividing Fractions Word Problems

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice solving word problems by dividing fractions by fractions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Multi Step Word Problems With Whole Numbers

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Solve multi-step word problems, including estimation. Select the equation that can be used to solve a word problem. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: General Triangle Word Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Solve word problems that involve general triangles using trigonometry. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Introduction to Physics: Problems & Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a list of physics problems and exercises including Physical Quantities and Units, Accuracy, Precision, and Significant Figures, and Approximation.
Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Geometry Word Problems: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Introduces how to set up and solve simple geometric-figure word problems. Includes advice regarding formulas to memorize.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Boys and Girls, Variation 1

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This word problem focuses on the Put Together/Take Apart contexts for addition and subtraction. Students may use objects, pictures, or equations to represent their solutions. Examples and explanations are provided.
Activity
Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Parallelogram Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners explore the geometry topic of parallelograms. The word problems include detailed solutions.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: The Hardest Math Problem in the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the two math problems that baffled mathematicians for ages, Fermat's Last Theorem and Riemann's Hypothesis. The latter is still unsolved.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Dividing Fractions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this exercise, students practice dividing fractions in word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Put Together or Take Away?

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders learn the basics of 1.OA.1 by mixing addition and subtraction word problems from day 1. The focus question is: Put together or take away?
Graphic
Global Problem Solvers

Gps: Global Problem Solvers: The Series Season 1: Working Well: Storyboards

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Global Problem Solvers is an animated STEM series from CISCO that features a group of middle school students who work together to solve social problems. This teachers resource provides pictures and words that summarize each episode.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ns Sharing Prize Money

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson plan, 7th graders solve real world problems using the four operations.
Activity
Pennsylvania State University

Penn State Univ.: Quadratic Functions/sample Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Penn State University offers a sample problem finding roots of a quadratic function.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Rainbow Math Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Red apples, orange candles, yellow stars, green frogs, and blue, indigo, and violet flowers-they all add up to Rainbow Math fun! During this adventure children learn the colors of the rainbow as they practice counting, adding and...
Website
US Department of State

Office of the Historian: The United States and the Haitian Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Study the roots of the Haitian Revolution and the American response. Our policy shifted many times from 1791 until we recognized Haiti's independence in 1862. Read the following synopsis to better understand our ambivalence.
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PBS

Pbs: Kid Vid: Dividing Mixed Numbers and Fractions

For Students 6th - 8th
Critique a peer's thinking about two division word problems, one with whole and mixed numbers and one with two fractions, in this interactive from KET. Students watch a video of a student thinking through two word problems that involve...
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PBS

Pbs: Modeling Fraction Division, Equal Groups, Group Size Unknown

For Students 6th - 8th
This animated video illustrates a word problem that requires dividing two fractions with equal groups, group size unknown. Students are presented with a problem that asks how long it takes a sloth to climb down a tree trunk at an even...
Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Hitting a Baseball Needs the Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
We tend to think about sports and games as if they were physical activities that depend on strength and speed, and reading and math problems as if they were mental activities that depend on being brainy and smart. It's true that hitting...
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PBS

Pbs: Modeling Fraction Multiplication Using Arrays

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This video illustrates a word problem involving the multiplication of fractions using an array to model the solution visually. The problem involves puffins, arctic birds that live in colonies and fish to feed their young.
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NASA

Ltp: 9th Grade Math Practice Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers 38 practice math problems based on the Ohio 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test. Questions are multiple choice and answer pages include discussion.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Molly Adds Up to 10

For Students K - 1st Standards
Interactive game that uses word problems
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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun Mathematics Lessons

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource has mathematics lessons for different levels, from counting to slope. In English and Spanish.
Unit Plan
Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structures: Definitions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Text structure definitions are provided on this page. Students will read the definitions of different text structures and then learn the corresponding definitions. Students can listen to the definitions and words read aloud. Students can...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Finding a Chair

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This lesson includes a series of questions that can be posed by the teacher to the whole class which revolves around addition and subtraction.

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