Keeping an Inverse Relationship

Introduce simple algebraic equations using real-world activities. Let small groups work through a party-planning activity. In light of this information, the group needs to decide how many kids can be invited to the party or how many...

Based on your current level of human capital, how long would it take you to earn $1,000,000? What about your potential human capital? Learners explore the importance of education and experience when entering the workforce, and compare...

The love most preteens have for candy will outweigh their suspicions of fraction arithmetic in a fun problem set and its supporting work. Tasked with helping a fellow student divide a candy bar stash, learners manipulate fractions...

Use the constant of proportionality to relate the independent variable to the dependent variable. The eighth installment of a 22-part series instructs pupils to take the equation to find the constant of proportionality and use it to...

Pupils complete activities to learn notation and uses for positive and negative numbers. In this number system lesson, learners play a game similar to Jeopardy to learn how to solve problems with positive and negative numbers.

With so many math standards to fit into a school year, it can be difficult keeping track of what you have and have not covered. This collection of Common Core checklists allows you to maintain a running record of when each standard was...

Add some variety to your school or district's math curriculum with this comprehensive collection of materials. Offering over 900 pages of Saxon Math lessons, worksheets, and activities, this resource is a gold mine for any middle school...

Unit rates are all around us: price per pound, servings per day, miles per hour. In this video, watch how different graphs display proportions as linear functions. Have your learners organize the data into a chart to calculate the unit...

Learners explore multiplying fractions and their relationship to parts of a whole. They draw and shade fractional parts to show parts of a whole and fractional parts of a fraction. Pupils also use an Internet site for interactive practice.

Introduce the bar model to your mathematicians to show the relationship of division to parts of a whole. The method shows a visual interpretation of the different parts. The solution is found by rewriting the division into a...