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Curated OER

A Lesson in Chaos for Middle School Students

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a chaotic system. They display a basic knowledge of the system and are able to recognize it. The students form a hypothesis about a chaotic system and theorize the cause and effect.
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Curated OER

Database Lesson

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students access the Internet to locate data regarding their assigned mathematician. They organize their notes onto a data form, then enter it into a database, and sort the database according to given criteria.
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Mathematics Archives

Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Integration by Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains Integration by Parts and then has several examples that you can work out on your own. You may check your answers when your finish!
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Other

Dan's Math: Basic Skills Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
College professor Dan Bach offers a review of various basic topics in arithmetic, pre-algebra, and algebra. Order of operations, exponents, square roots, variables, and combining terms are just a few of the many topics covered.
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University of Arizona

Math Lesson: Calculating Parts Per Million: Do We Have a Problem Here?

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders test solutions to determine the parts per million and whether a lake is contaminated.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Pneumatic Creature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create a creature that uses air to create motion with this challenge. Site includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Rube Goldberg Machine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build a machine that accomplishes a task in an inefficient way with this Rube Goldberg challenge. Find some tips and a place to document your engineering process on this site.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Pine Cone

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using cardboard, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and strings create a pine cone that opens and closes. This site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Microexpression Zoetrope

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build a zoetrope machine where you can animate a facial expression and the machine plays the animation back with this site. Site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place to document your design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Control a Microraptor's Flight

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using common household materials students are challenged to make a flying raptor and control its flight with attached strings. Site includes lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their process.
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eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Appendices: The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics

For Students 9th - 10th
This appendix should be consulted after first reading "Welcome to Economics." Though economics is not math, there is no important concept in this course that cannot be explained without mathematics. That said, math is a tool that can be...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Nevada Crt Practice Exam Grade 8 Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students can use this LearningCheck item bank to prepare for the Nevada CRT math exams.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Alaska Tn and Hsgqe Practice Exams Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use these LearningCheck item banks to prepare for the following - 9th grade Alaska TN and HSGQE math and 10th grade Alaska TN and HSGQE math.
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Website
Other

University of Puget Sound: Tools for Understanding Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A detailed site from the University of Puget Sound incorporating secondary math skills in a wide variety of techniques. It is intended for educators who teach mathematics and are interested in integrating common technologies into their...
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Professional Doc
Other

Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Fractions Into Decimals

For Students 3rd - 8th
This Math Page tutorial explains how to change a fraction to a decimal and features a practice section at the end of the lesson.
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Website
Other

Omar Khayyam the Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam

For Students 9th - 10th
The primary purpose of this site is to present the text of the "Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam." In addition the site's author provides a description of Omar Khayyam's achievements in literature and mathematics. Site contains reference to...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Puzzling Pangaea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this instructional activity learners will work collaboratively to research information in order to prove or disprove if a super continent ever existed. Students will create a model of Pangaea to show how their research findings...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Geometrica Fights Back!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity is designed to give young scholars practice with the properties of special quadrilaterals (parallelograms, rectangles, rhombuses, squares, trapezoids, and kites). The students are provided with a "murder mystery" sheet with...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Parent Functions and Their Children

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will be able to identify parent functions of linear functions, absolute value functions, and quadratic functions. Students will be presented with functions and asked to graph them by first identifying the basic...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Dimension

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Mathworld.com provides information on what the dimension of an object means.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Math: Angles Glossary and Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math glossary and terms on angles for kids. Learn the definitions used in this mathematics subject such as acute, obtuse, and right angles on this site.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kid's Games: Fun Math Multiplication Times Table Practice

For Students 3rd - 8th
Practice your math skills and learn your times tables with this fun game. Fun multiply and multiplication drill can be found on this site.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Math Certificate

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a grayline master of a math certificate that can be awarded to students of math. Spaces are available for filling in the student name, reason for receiving the certificate, teacher name and date.