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Saxon

Plotting Functions

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
Youngsters use a graphing calculator to assist in creating a function table. They graph the function on a coordinate plane. They explore the relationship between the domain and range in the graph. This four-page worksheet contains two...
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Exploratorium

Descartes' Diver

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pique interest in water pressure, demonstrate buoyancy, and explore water displacement concepts with a homemade Cartesian diver. You may want to change the name of the toy, however, as is is not documented the Rene Descartes...
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Exploratorium

Antigravity Mirror

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's super student! Physical science stars can fly during a unit on light as they see the reflection of one leg in a mirror, behind which the other holds them up. 
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Illustrative Mathematics

Who Has the Best Job?

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Making money is important to teenagers. It is up to your apprentices to determine how much two wage earners make with their after school jobs. Participants work with a table, an equation, and a graph and compare the two workers to see...
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Environmental Education in Wisconsin

Biome Travel Guide

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In a perfect marriage of social studies and science, groups work together to research and create a travel guide presentation to share with the class. Not only do kids learn about the climate and geography of a biome, but also the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student will graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane and use graphing to solve problems involving cartography.
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Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Calculus Iii: Applications of Partial Derivatives

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource examines applications of partial derivatives. Topics investigated are tangent planes, linear approximation, gradient vector, and Lagrange multipliers. Class notes, definitions, and examples with detailed solutions are...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What Is Gravity?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will perform a series of experiments with inclined planes. They will learn that as the angle of inclination of the inclined plane approaches 90 degrees, the value of the acceleration of the cart traveling down...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Hip Hip Hooray for the 100th Day!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Scholastic.com provides a reproducible coordinate grid activity on a 100 grid to help your students celebrate the 100th day of school.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Inequalities, They Are Not Just Linear Anymore!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students study quadratic relationships and explore the process of graphing quadratic inequalities and systems of quadratic inequalities. They will solve these inequalities algebraically and graph them on a coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Traveling Shapes Motion Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students describe how to move a shape from one place to another in a plane. They learn about translations, rotations, and line reflections. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Linear Inequalities

For Students 9th - 10th
Listed steps to graph an inequality along with a example that is graphed on a coordinate plane. Easy to read and understand!
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Olympic Rings

For Students K - 1st Standards
This activity explores shapes and circles by encouraging children to look really hard at something they will see very often in the run-up to London 2012, and is designed to be accessible to primary pupils at Key Stage 1.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Hoopster

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students create their own airplane using straws and other materials and learn the principles of aerodynamics.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Ups and Downs

For Students K - 1st
Explore sports science and build a ramp that will roll a ball right to the target.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Two Step Number Patterns [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The student learns how to create number patterns involving addition and subtraction.
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Other

University of Wisconsin: Graphing Inequalities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site, which is provided for by the University of Wisconsin, gives a discussion in how to graph an inequality is presented. A link to practice problems is provided.