Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this lesson, students make connections between prior knowledge and new knowledge of mathematical concepts. Students label dot plots and box and whisker plots, identify minimum, maximum, and median data points, and create box and whisker plots. This lesson encourages students to create their own questions... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: May 29th, 2025
Box and Whisker Plots
In this lesson, students will look at phenomena using a weather simulation in order to learn more about descriptive statistics and measures of central tendency. The lesson focuses on extreme weather in different parts of the United States. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: November 9th, 2022
Measures of Central Tendency
This lesson uses mathematical manipulatives to engage students in learning how to use the order of operations for finding solutions to simple expressions. Students will explore concepts by playing three games to work with order of operations and to help develop computational fluency. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: February 11th, 2025
Order of Operations
In this lesson, students explore concepts of perimeter, area, surface area, and volume while engaging in hands-on construction of origami boxes. Students collaborate to discover the formulas for volume and surface area. Then students listen to a civil engineer and learn how he uses volume and surface... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: June 18th, 2025
Surface Area and Volume of Rectangular Prisms
In this lesson, students will learn the relationship between position, velocity, speed, and acceleration to solve real-world problems involving motion along a line. Students are expected to know the chain rule and how to find higher-order derivatives for both power and trigonometric functions before... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: July 16th, 2025
Connecting Position, Velocity, and Acceleration
Students will create three-dimensional representations of volumes with known cross sections in order to better understand what the solids look like and to better calculate volume. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Volumes With Known Cross Sections
In this lesson, students will explore the puzzling ideas behind Grandi's series in order to construct an idea of how the sum of an infinite number of terms in a sequence can be evaluated. After exploring Grandi's series, students take a closer look at limits of rational functions as their values of... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: November 9th, 2022
Limits Toward Infinity in Rational Functions
Students will explore what happens when one measures a "rough" object using different units of measure. This lesson is adapted from Benoit Mandelbrot's famous problem, "Measuring the Coastline of Britain." Students will learn about the concepts of convergent and divergent series and the paradoxical... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2023
Convergent and Divergent Series
The goal of this lesson is to help students understand the relationships between a function and its first and second derivatives. Students will analyze graphs recalling their knowledge of sketching graphs by hand using the first and second derivatives and apply their graphical knowledge verbally through... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: January 4th, 2023
Connecting Functions and Their Derivatives
This lesson is a follow-up to I Sub, U-Sub, We All Sub. In the previous lesson, students worked with the teacher to create an anchor chart of what "worked" and what "didn't work" for anti-differentiating derivatives of functions. The goal of this lesson is to build on that knowledge in order for students... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: January 25th, 2023
Integration: U-Subsitution, Part 2
