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How Many Chickens?![]() Farmer Frank raises chickens and pigs. Students are asked to use specific given information to determine how many of Farmer Frank's animals are chickens. This problem will require students to persevere as they apply prior knowledge of fractions, ratios, and percents to algebra concepts such as solving a system of equations. |
10/8/2015 |
Lynda Boepple
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6.RP.A.3c 6.EE.B.7 AZ.6.NS.C.9 7.EE.B.4a 8.EE.C.8a 8.EE.C.8b 8.EE.C.8c MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 MP.7 MP.8 | 6 7 8 | Activity | ||
How Many Houses?![]() Carpenters and apprentices are busy building houses... Students are asked to answer four questions regarding the relationships between the number of workers and how many houses can be built during a specific number of days. |
8/8/2015 |
Lynda Boepple
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6.RP.A.1 6.RP.A.2 6.RP.A.3 6.RP.A.3b 6.RP.A.3d 7.RP.A.1 7.RP.A.2 7.RP.A.2a 7.RP.A.2b 7.RP.A.2c MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 MP.7 MP.8 | 6 7 | Activity | ||
Ice Cream and Temperature-Correlation Activity![]() Goal: The goal of this activity is for students to graph the data on a scatterplot and discuss the relationship they see between ice cream and temperature. |
12/12/2016 |
Ashley Nicoloff
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8.SP.A.2 8.SP.A.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.6 | 6 7 8 HS | Activity | ||
Inferences about two populations![]() Goal: The goal of this activity is for students to compare to samples from two different populations. They will make inferences based on what they find from their dot plot. |
1/13/2017 |
Ashley Nicoloff
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6.SP.A.2 6.SP.B.5 6.SP.B.5c 7.SP.B.4 7.SP.B.3 7.SP.A.1 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.8 | 5 6 7 8 HS | Activity | ||
Inside Mathematics Educator Resource SiteInside Mathematics is a professional resource for educators passionate about improving students' mathematics learning and performance. This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site. |
6/13/2014 |
Phillip Clark
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Is a Super Ball REALLY Super?![]() Is a Super Ball REALLY "super?" This activity allows students to collect data and to make an argument regarding this quetions. See the PowerPoint for details about the activity... Note: It is best to gain access to an authentic, Wham-O Super Ball made with Zectron! https://www.amazon.com/orginal-super-ball-wtih-zectron/dp/B0001ZN49I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1513808409&sr=8-2&keywords=whamo+super+ball |
12/20/2017 |
Scott Adamson
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6.RP.A.1 6.RP.A.3 7.RP.A.2 7.RP.A.3 8.F.A.3 8.F.B.4 8.F.B.5 HSF-IF.C.7 HSF-IF.B.6 HSA-CED.A.2 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 MP.7 MP.8 | 5 6 8 7 HS | Activity | ||
Is Ellen Correct?![]() This clip was edited for middle school students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeOLW-NqQt4 |
3/29/2016 |
Amanda Larner
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7.RP.A.3 MP.1 MP.5 MP.6 | 7 | Activity | ||
Is Manute, minute?![]() A powerpoint presentation that can be used to introduce the topic of scatterplots and lines-of-best fit using a fun context. |
2/1/2015 |
Trey Cox
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8.SP.A.1 8.SP.A.2 8.SP.A.3 HSS-ID.B.6 HSS-ID.B.6a HSS-ID.B.6b HSS-ID.B.6c HSS-ID.C.7 HSS-ID.C.8 MP.2 MP.4 | 8 HS | Activity | ||
Is the Sine a Circular Function? How about a Star Sine?![]() Students are often challenged by seeing the conncection between the unit circle and the graph of the sine and cosine functions. This activity is designed to take students out of their comfort zone to experience what the "sine" function would look like if it were based upon other geometric figures. |
3/23/2015 |
Trey Cox
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HSF-IF.B.4 HSF-TF.A.2 HSF-TF.B.5 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.6 | HS | Activity | ||
KayZ Pro![]() Do drones make your day? Do you love exploring with drones? This custom designed "Headless Mode Mini Drone" is definitely a MUST HAVE! Designed and made with premium quality material. |
2/13/2018 |
Steve Gaston
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Knee surgery & Muscle weakness![]()
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1/3/2018 |
Linda Meng
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HSA-CED.A.1 HSA-CED.A.2 HSF-LE.A.3 HSF-LE.A.1 HSF-LE.A.1a MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 | HS | Activity | ||
Linear Function Model - Blood Alcohol Content![]() This is the PowerPoint version of the activity related to developing a linear function model for the context of BAC. |
6/15/2016 |
Scott Adamson
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8.F.A.3 8.F.B.4 8.F.B.5 HSF-IF.C.8 HSF-BF.A.1 HSF-LE.A.1a HSF-LE.A.1b MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 MP.7 MP.8 | 8 HS | Activity | ||
M & M Variablility![]()
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9/23/2016 |
Ashley Nicoloff
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6.SP.B.4 6.SP.B.5 6.SP.B.5a 7.SP.A.1 7.SP.A.2 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.6 MP.8 | 6 7 | Activity | ||
Mathematics and Advertising![]() This activity is from the 2011 CGCC Junior High Math Contest Team Project. You may pick and choose which parts of the project to use or use it all! Percent increase/decrease and Area of circles The Counting Principle Pythagorean Theorem and Ratios |
11/19/2014 |
Scott Adamson
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7.RP.A.3 7.G.B.4 7.G.B.6 8.G.B.7 7.RP.A.2 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 MP.7 MP.8 | 7 8 | Activity | ||
Mathematics Vision Project WebsiteMVP provides curricular materials aligned with the Common Core State Standards for secondary mathematics. These items are free to download and remix. |
6/13/2014 |
Phillip Clark
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Modeling with Exponential Functions![]() A worksheet involving exponential modeling. |
6/2/2014 |
Phillip Clark
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HSF-LE.A.4 MP.1 MP.4 | HS | Activity | ||
Motivating Function Notation![]() Pat Thompson, ASU Mathematics Educator, wrote an article titled "Why use f(x) when all we really mean is y?” (see below for a link to the article). This activity is designed to help motivate a need for function notation and uses desmos.com as a tool. http://pat-thompson.net/PDFversions/2013WhyF(x).pdf |
10/8/2016 |
Scott Adamson
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8.F.B.5 HSF-IF.A.2 HSF-IF.C.8 HSF-IF.C.9 HSF-BF.A.1 HSF-BF.B.4a MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 MP.7 MP.8 | 7 8 HS | Activity | ||