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Algebra Project: Organizing in the Spirit of Ella - Civic Practices Network (CPN) This math-science program in Cambridge, MA has organized local communities to help make algebra available to all 7th and 8th grade students, regardless of their prior level of skill development or academic achievement. This paper examines how the developers ...more>> Analytic Geometry - Jim Loy This is a quick introduction to analytic geometry, graphing functions in a coordinate system, that foreshadows the derivative. ...more>> The Area of a Circle (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Academy A grade 8 lesson designed to teach the relation between circumference and diameter and how that relation, called pi, is used in the formula for the area of a circle. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept ...more>> The Area of a Circle (Version 2.0) (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Academy A grade 8 lesson designed to review areas of plane figures; determine the relation between the circumference and diameter of a circle; show the geometric representation of the area of a circle as the shape of a parallelogram; and use the formula for computing ...more>> Awesome Grades in Math and Science (AGMS) - Anita Delmar; AwesomeInfo.com, Inc. You may purchase the AGMS main volume, a comprehensive guide for success in grades 7-12 math and science courses; a checklist/diagnostic tool; and a Web resource list (Anita Delmar's personal collection of the "best of the best" in math and science help ...more>> Bicycles - John P. Crotty - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A unit designed to show how to use bicycles to teach mathematics and science, with applications to program in a computer class, experiments, and an appendix that discusses approximate numbers and significant digits. ...more>> Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) - Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada Home of the Canadian Mathematics Competitions (CMC); the Canadian Computing Competition; and contests for middle and high school students. Download PDFs of contest problems dating back to 1997. Register, obtain results from the competitions, participate ...more>> Congruence Of Triangles, Part II - Jim Loy This article proves that the three "theorems" or "postulates" that are the basis of Euclid's theories about triangle congruence are actually equivalent. ...more>> Coordinate Graphing - Laurie L. Dunbar; SCORE Mathematics Learn the basics of coordinate graphing and practice plotting points on the coordinate axis. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics Lessons. ...more>> A Devious Investigation: A Lesson in Standard Deviation - Debra Payne; SCORE Mathematics Students develop an informal understanding of standard deviation by finding the mean and standard deviation of their hometowns and comparing them to a town with a similar mean but a different standard deviation. Aligned to the California State Standards. ...more>> Discovering Growth Patterns - Emilie Mason; SCORE Mathematics Differences between linear and exponential growth functions. A student page instructs students to locate four specified sites on the Internet. After data are collected, pattern predictions are made. Graphing the collected data is done using ClarisWorks' ...more>> The Effective Use of Computers in Applied Mathematics - John Crotty and Joseph Cummins - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A unit on fractions in applied mathematics that uses programmed graphical models to let students see what happens when any mathematical operation takes place. Students also see what a fraction is, comparison of fractions, and the reducing of fractions ...more>> Eighth Grade (AAA Math) - John Banfill Interactive math exercises, lessons, and games covering basic arithmetic concepts and methods, for eighth grade. ...more>> Energy Efficient Architectural Design and Model Building - Stephen Kass - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A unit designed for middle to high school level math teachers who want to illustrate the principles of scaling, ratio, and proportion in a concrete way through model building, and for science teachers who want to teach practical energy efficient design ...more>> EXAMgen Computerized test item-banks for secondary school teachers. Math assessment databases cover curricula from 7-8th grade: Basic Math, Integrated Math, High School Exit Level, Algebra modules and Geometry modules. The databases have multiple choice, short ...more>> Exclusive Educational Products - Exclusive Educational Products Order math resources and manipulatives for the curriculum of Ontario, Canada, as listed by grade or by the strands of number sense, measurement, patterning and algebra, geometry, data management, and assessment. Virtual workshops include samples from ...more>> Geometric Shapes in Architecture - Lauretta J. Fox - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A unit designed to improve students' understanding and appreciation of basic geometric shapes used in architecture. It describes various plane geometric figures and discusses in detail the properties of several of these figures. Perimeters and areas ...more>> Geometric Systems in Architecture - Sheryl A. Decaprio - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Lessons that include deriving formulas for volume by building rectangular prisms, identifying geometric solids by constructing cubes, tetrahedrons, and octahedrons, and identifying geometric patterns found in ceiling and wall tiles. Additional lessons ...more>> Grade Eight Problems - The Canadian School Math Page A variety of word problems at the Canadian 8th grade level, with hints and answers. ...more>> Graphic Algebra: Explorations with a Graphing Calculator - Asp, Dowsey, Stacey, Tynan; Key Curriculum Press A book of blackline master activities for algebra students to use with graphing calculators or graphing software such as NuCalc. Based on Australian research on teaching algebra. For grades 8-11. ...more>> Graphing Current Drug Data - Beverly B. Stern - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Graphing Current Drug Data gives (1) some current views on the drug issue, (2) a history of drug use, (3) specific data on alcohol, caffeine, cocaine, marijuana and nicotine, and (4) data on high school drug trends from 1975-1985. The unit could supply ...more>> House of Math Word Problems for Children - MathStories.com, Inc. More than 2,000 math word problems for grades 1-8, classified by grade and topic, with over 150 math word problem sheets, each focused on one topic with sufficient room for students to show their work. There are math work sheets based on history and science, ...more>> How Divine Is My Proportion? (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy A lesson for grade 8 that relates the ratio of successive numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence to the "divine proportion" and compares approximate golden rectangles to human body proportions. From the Arithmetic section of a collection of almost 200 single ...more>> How Much is a Million? (SMILE) - Sharon Simmons, Joseph Stockton Elementary School A lesson for grades 7-8 designed to teach students to estimate how much a million of something weighs. From the Recreational and Creative Math section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for ...more>> How Popular Is Your Favorite Site? - Cheryl Harrigan; SCORE Mathematics Keep track of the counter at your favorite site for several months. Is it increasing, decreasing, or staying the same in popularity? Can you find an equation that will allow you to predict the amount of visitors your site will have in the months to come? ...more>> Introducing Computer Programming in a Traditional Classroom - Lauretta J. Fox - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A unit that introduces some simple computer programming techniques in an informal manner to students in a traditional classroom. The mathematical topic included in the unit is the area of plane figures. Recommended for 7th and 8th grade General Mathematics, ...more>> An Introduction to Elementary Statistics (1985) - Lauretta J. Fox - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A unit designed to improve students' understanding of elementary topics included in statistics. The unit defines the arithmetic mean, the median, the mode, and the range of a group of numbers. Methods for computing these measures of central tendency ...more>> An Introduction to Elementary Statistics (1986) - Lauretta J. Fox - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A unit that begins by discussing terms commonly used in statistics, and then explains and constructs frequency distributions, dot diagrams, histograms, frequency polygons, and cumulative frequency polygons. Measures of central tendency including the mean, ...more>> Introduction to Wireman - Martin Mulder; SCORE Mathematics A lesson written to assist teachers in using the Wireman project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The application, Wireman, allows students to put wireframe objects like: spheres, cylinders, cones, squares, and super spheroids together to ...more>> Junior High and High School: Lesson Plans (The Lesson Plans Page) - Kyle Yamnitz, Univ. of Missouri A searchable archive of lesson plans for statistics, numeracy and problem-solving, estimation, probability, and more. Includes suggestions for games, manipulatives, and spreadsheets. ...more>> Mandelbrot Midlevels Competition A mathematics competition that emphasizes problem-solving, geared towards students in seventh and eighth grade. Three rounds are distributed to schools throughout the year; students may participate in individual or team portions of the contest. Site ...more>> MARS - Mathematical Assessment Resource Service - Michigan State University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Shell Center for Mathematical Education at the University of Nottingham, England The Mathematics Assessment Resource Service (MARS) works with districts and states on performance assessment design and implementation, and on professional development for designers and teachers. MARS provides consultancy and training of two broad kinds: ...more>> Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) - Massachusetts Department of Education Test schedules, test items from prior years, scoring guidelines and student work on open-response questions, results of this state standardized testing, and performance appeals. Publications include questionnaires administered to students, interpretive ...more>> MATHCOUNTS - MATHCOUNTS Foundation A national math coaching and competition program that promotes 7th and 8th grade math achievement through grass-roots involvement in every U.S. state and several territories. At the beginning of each school year, the MATHCOUNTS Foundation distributes, ...more>> Mathematicians and Scientists Treasure Hunt - Eldred Marshall; SCORE Mathematics Students match a fact with a mathematician or scientist, using the Internet. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics Lessons. ...more>> Mathematics and Ecology: Through The Window Garden - Hermine E. Smikle - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A unit designed to use the concepts of ecology and apply them to mathematics, divided into two sections. The first section gives an overview of the topic of ecology and the second section gives lesson plans: examples and ideas for how the readings from ...more>> Mathematics in Architecture - Lauretta J. Fox - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute To produce structures that are functional as well as models of architectural beauty, designers must apply principles of mathematics in their work. Scale drawings, commonly known as plans, are used as patterns in the construction of buildings. Proper ratios ...more>> Mathematics: Problems on Coal and Energy - Joyce Bryant; Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A math and science unit for grades 7-8 on the developments that led to the discovery of coal and coal mining through the origins and kinds of coal; types and methods of coal mining, hazards of mining, measures of safety, and chemical by-products of coal, ...more>> Mathematics Through Nutrition - Joyce Bryant - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute A unit on nutrition, with charts that tell why one eats as well as what one should eat. Each class of food has a definite function; over fifty nutrients are needed for good health and they have been divided into six categories. The math is developed through ...more>> Math Mediator - Glen Cotant With an emphasis on relevant applications to motivate students, these lesson plans bridge the gap between classic Algebra 2 and real life. Cotant's goal is "to give high school math teachers a ready-to-use lesson plan as well as help students with their ...more>> Math Online - Salem-Keiser Public Schools, Oregon Salem-Keizer Public Schools of Salem, Oregon, designed this collection of daily math problems to help students in the third, fifth, and eighth grades prepare for the State of Oregon CIM Benchmark exams. Student exercises are organized by grade level, ...more>> Math That Makes You Go Wow - A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration of Non-Orientable Surfaces - Boittin, Callahan, Goldberg, Remes A Web course intended for inclusion as a short segment in a late middle school or early high school math course and designed to convey the beauty and fascination of such mathematical objects as the sphere, the torus, the Klein bottle, the Mobius band, ...more>> The Noon Project Revisited - Tom Akashi; SCORE Mathematics 2200 years ago, Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth from the measurements of two shadows (in a well and from a pole). The Noon Project is an annual Internet event for schools to team up and make their own measurements. Using the reported ...more>> Number Up (SMILE) - Ernestine Bickham, Maria Saucedo Magnet School A lesson for grades 7-8 that uses a deck of cards to help students practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, and order of operations. From the Recreational and Creative Math section of a collection of almost 200 single ...more>> nysmath48 - Math Forum The discussion group of the Association of Math Teachers of New York State dedicated to the "Grade 4" and "Grade 8" Math Assessments. Teachers, administrators, NYSED personnel, and anyone interested in this NY state-specific topic are encouraged to take ...more>> Paper Toss Shootout (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy A lesson for grade 8 designed to teach students to use class data to calculate percentages; participate in a group activity; relate this activity to NBA (National Basketball Association) stats; and calculate select percentages for NBA Finals data. From ...more>> Pi Day - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ Answers to a frequently asked question: What activities can I use for Pi Day? ...more>> Problem of the Week Archive - MATHCOUNTS A chronological archive of current-events-based math problems, dating back to 1996. Also includes warm-ups and workouts, problem-solving strategies, extended activities, algebraic reasoning, a contest for submission of creative math problems, and Go Figure!, ...more>> Ratios, Mars, and the Internet - Michael Cragin; SCORE Mathematics A simple project that integrates mathematics and technology. Students calculate real ratios that exist between the planets Earth and Mars, using the Internet or a simulated Internet environment to check their work. Aligned to the California State Standards. ...more>> Rocket High (SMILE) - Elizabeth Kelly, Pilsen Community Academy A lesson for grades 7-8 designed to reinforce students' measurement skills by having them manipulate a launcher to create specific angles, introducing them to the concept of tangents. From the Recreational and Creative Math section of a collection of ...more>>

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