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Applied math simulations for Microsoft Word
Hands On LCM GCF Build It! Least Common Multiple, Greatest Common Factor
Kids will master the concepts of least common multiple and greatest common factor by actually manipulating items into groups. With this fun, hands-on activity, the problems are already created for you!
An answer key is provided. All you need is to print the worksheet and distribute base-ten blocks, Cuisenaire rods, strips of paper, or anything you have handy.
Your students can work in pairs to model the situation and perform the correct operation to perform a hands-on GCF and a hands-on LC
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4th - 8th
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Carnival Probability Project
A project that feels like a game!
Students must create their own game, using probability to ensure THEY are favored to win....much like the house in a casino. Students can make games involving dice, spinners, cards, "fishing" ducks out of a pond, etc.
Assessed skills include: fundamental counting principal, theoretical probability, experimental probability, independent events, dependent events, creativity, writing, presentation. *Students must already know basic probability to complete this
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8th - 12th
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Using Probability to Teach Social Justice
This is an exploratory experiment/activity about basic probability. Students discover the differences between theoretical probability, experimental probability, and reality by taking a hard look at Stop and Frisk in urban areas. Students also deal with independent and dependent events.
By the end of the project, students will be able to:
Articulate the differences between theoretical and experimental probability through prediction and experimentation.
Articulate the differences between indep
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8th - 12th
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Racial Profiling and Probability (Social Justice Math)
In this assignment, you will investigate racial profiling, or Driving While Black (DWB). African Americans and Latinos/as have complained, filed suit, and organized against what they believe are racist police practices—being stopped, searched, harassed, and arrested because they “fit” a racial profile—they are African American (Black) or Latino/a (Brown). But is this true? How do we know? And can mathematics be a useful tool in helping us answer this question?These questions will be answered usi
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7th - 12th
Personal Shopper to the Stars- Research and Math Project
What kid doesn’t have a famous person that they admire? Who doesn’t’ like to spend money? This download combines both interests into one motivational activity.
In this project, students will research a famous person alive today, focusing on their hobbies, personal preferences, family life, etc. Then take the information they’ve learned about their famous person and become their personal shopper. They will then use a budget of $5,000 to buy gifts that fit their person’s lifestyle. The student
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3rd - 6th
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Chewey Bubble Gum Company - Intro To Probability
Want to introduce your students to the probability of something happening? Want to peak their interest before you start a probability unit? This experiment based activity allows students to find the probability of something happening while having fun and popping bubble gum bubbles!
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6th - 12th
Retirement Simulation
Many retirement resources help students learn strategies to save for retirement, but not many show students what it’s like to live off retirement income. In fact, many adults do not have a grasp of this concept. I created this Retirement Simulation to help students see what it’s like to live off retirement savings. This activity can be done in groups or individually. For this instruction sheet, I have written down instructions based on each student working individually and receiving their own co
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9th - 12th
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Probability: Simulating a coin toss (MYP Maths Criterion B & C)
Elevate your MYP math lessons with this innovative activity! Students will explore experimental probability while using the Desmos platform to uncover the probability of flipping heads. This activity cultivates active learning and critical thinking. Aligned with MYP objectives, the activity enriches probability comprehension and digital adeptness. With straightforward instructions, students engage seamlessly, making learning exciting.
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9th - 10th
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Bacterial and Viral Replication Lab
This lab requires you to have raw beans (any kind to model bacteria) and whiteboards for students to draw a family tree and write out generation numbers next to each bacterial generation. (You could also do this on paper.)This lab is a great way for students to simulate bacterial and viral reproduction. For the bacteria, students will model the number of bacteria in each generation starting with only one bacterium (represented by a bean). With each generation, students will watch as the family t
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Grades:
8th - 9th
Project Based Learning - Building A Math Lab
Integrating Technology and Engineering in a Math classroom is an ideal lesson plan for a STEM school. This project requires students to create a math lab for their school by designing the room, making technology purchases, buying math related materials, preparing cost analysis graphs using Excel, writing persuasive letters, and creating a movie advertisement to sell their math lab. It is a great way to involve the community by inviting in guest speakers. My students worked on this project o
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4th - 8th
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Simulating Titration of Acid on a Spreadsheet
This activity guides students to construct a spreadsheet from a blank Excel workbook that will simulate titration of acids or bases.
*Teacher background on Excel is not required*
After constructing the spreadsheet and graphs the students will experiment with the spreadsheet to answer analysis questions that will help students learn the mathematical nature of titration (solutions are provided including descriptions of all spreadsheet manipulations necessary to solve each problem).
The va
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Geometry Triangle Congruence Theorems Activity
SSS, SAS, SSA. They mean absolutely nothing to my students. So instead of wasting a month on this unit, I condensed it into this activity which allows students to physically manipulate objects and discover which shortcut theorems can be used to show that two triangles are congruent.It is tough to implement at first, but it has done wonders for my students once they get the hang of it. We constantly refer back to this experiment whenever we are proving things in later units.
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9th - 11th
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Interactive Online ELab Simulations Lab - Shopping Unit Rates Lab
In this FREE online interactive simulation provided by PhET, developed by the University of Colorado, students will explore unit rates through the process of buying goods. Students will explore how shopping uses unit rates to determine the price of various goods. Students will need a computer, tablet or IPad. These simulations were designed for IPad use. This handout goes directly with the Elab and contains directions on accessing the lab online as well as directions on how to complete the lab.
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5th - 8th
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Social Issue Project: Dangerous Dolls?
During this project, students will measure themselves, measure action figures/dolls, and scale up the doll proportionally to life size, based on their height. Then, they will trace themselves on a large piece of butcher block paper. On that same paper, they will sketch out the life-sized doll proportions and create a body outline of what the doll would look like if it were their same height. They should finish with something that looks terribly disproportionate. From there, you can have a debate
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6th - 10th
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Personal Budget Worksheet
Worksheet for careers research that works in reverse order. Students estimate amounts in each category to determine how much they will then need to earn each month to meet their needs.
Easily editable Word document, so you can change the estimate amounts to better reflect the costs in your community.
Useful for careers classes and college and university counseling.
Grades:
7th - 12th
How do you run your business?
This activity helps students to understand that there are many factors that can affect how well a business does in the real world. I have used this activity in a Personal Finance class, but it would also work well for a life skills class, a beginning business class, or as an introduction activity for a variety of units.
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Investment Strategy Game
Note: Familiarity with Ti 83 calculators is essential so that the program INVEST can be entered into a set of these calculators.
The Investment Strategy Game is designed to introduce students to the compounding effect of variable investments over a period of 10 years. The four categories used in this game are: 1) large value funds which invest primarily in the common stocks of large undervalued companies, 2) small growth funds which invest primarily in the common stocks of small companies that
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9th - 12th
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Fraction Division using String!
After a discussion of reciprocals, students work in cooperative groups to prove the fraction division algorithm by folding lengths of string into fractional parts. After practicing by dividing a whole number length of string, they divide a fractional string length into smaller fractional parts.
Aha Moment: When finished, students will have proven why the abstract concept of fraction division is equal to multiplying by the reciprocal of the second fraction.
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5th - 8th
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Budgeting for A Big Life Event
This was created for a Consumer Math Course. It has students research, and create a budget for a Big Life Event (a wedding, a baby, or two vacations for a family of 4). It provides a list of essential items for each option, and leaves a few blank for students to add their own items. It also has them look at the different qualities for items, and budget in different situations.
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9th - 12th
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Making a City: Creative Uses for Perimeter and Area
"Making a City" is a cross-curricular 5E lesson plan in which students will design and build a 2D city. Concepts of perimeter, area, and conversion as well as city management and needs are discussed. Students will work both individually and in groups to design a well-rounded city with measurable segments.
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4th
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Dealing With Money
This product walks students through 7 different budgets and bills. This includes finding gross and net income and bill totals. It requires operations with decimals (the focus of this worksheet). The top says "no calculator" but file is in word, so that can be deleted. The 8th question on the sheet is a reflection question. It's a great real-world application of working with decimals.
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5th - 9th
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BUILD A POOL HOUSE
Students use perimeter, area, volume and budgeting to build a pool house. Students also practice technical writing in mathematics.
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5th - 6th
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International Rock Band Tour Project
Congratulations! After winning the latest reality television singing competition, you and your band are about to start your first international tour!! On your tour you will have a concert on every continent, except Antarctica. You can work in teams or by yourself to plan your trip.
Students will learn about the five themes of geography, as well as, financing and budgeting skills.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Pendulums Investigation
This is an activity designed to allow students to work with the length and period of a simple pendulum as an application of a square root function.
Students use online resources to find the function that relates the period and length of a pendulum, then use this information to answer a series of questions. The activity culminates with an experiment in which students build and test their own simple pendulum and compare their results with the results predicted by the function.
This activit
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10th - 11th
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