Curated OER
A Lesson in Chaos for Middle School Students
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.
Curated OER
Database Lesson
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.
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Integration by Parts
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!
Other
Dan's Math: Basic Skills Topics
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.
University of Arizona
Math Lesson: Calculating Parts Per Million: Do We Have a Problem Here?
Twelfth graders test solutions to determine the parts per million and whether a lake is contaminated.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Pneumatic Creature
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.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Rube Goldberg Machine
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.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Pine Cone
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.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Microexpression Zoetrope
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.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Control a Microraptor's Flight
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Appendices: The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Nevada Crt Practice Exam Grade 8 Math
Students can use this LearningCheck item bank to prepare for the Nevada CRT math exams.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Alaska Tn and Hsgqe Practice Exams Math
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.
Other
University of Puget Sound: Tools for Understanding Math
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...
Other
Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning
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.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Fractions Into Decimals
This Math Page tutorial explains how to change a fraction to a decimal and features a practice section at the end of the lesson.
Other
Omar Khayyam the Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Puzzling Pangaea
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Geometrica Fights Back!
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Parent Functions and Their Children
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...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Dimension
This site from Mathworld.com provides information on what the dimension of an object means.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Math: Angles Glossary and Terms
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.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kid's Games: Fun Math Multiplication Times Table Practice
Practice your math skills and learn your times tables with this fun game. Fun multiply and multiplication drill can be found on this site.
abcteach
Abcteach: Math Certificate
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.