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If Our Classroom Were the World

Proportions

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This lesson challenges students to write and solve proportions comparing the characteristics of a larger community with the characteristics of a smaller community. Students begin the lesson by listening to a story about what the world would look like and sound like if it were represented by 100 people.... Read more »

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More 4 class periods
Time Frame 165–180 minutes
Improving Your Stats

Decoding the Game

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Students will explore how measures of central tendency are used in the world of sports and will learn how to calculate a weighted average. Students will work through ACT-style practice problems using prior knowledge of mean, median, and mode. Read more »

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Improving Your Stats

Decoding the Game

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More 2-3 class periods
Time Frame 80-100 minutes
Invest Systematically

Linear Systems of Equations

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In this lesson, students will investigate how to use systems of equations to solve real-world problems. This is a great lesson to wrap up a unit on systems of equations, after students have become familiar with solving systems using any method. This lesson will connect solving systems to real-world... Read more »

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Invest Systematically

Linear Systems of Equations

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More 2 class periods
Time Frame 100 minutes
It's a Numbers Game

Systems of Equations

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This lesson asks students to apply their previous knowledge of solving systems of equations to real-life contexts, including basketball games. Read more »

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It's a Numbers Game

Systems of Equations

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More 2-3 periods
Time Frame 120 minutes
Journey of the Isolated Variable, Part 1

Solving Two-Step Equations

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This lesson introduces students to properties of real numbers, equality, and inverse operations for solving linear equations. The objective is for students to understand how to isolate a variable in two-step equations by applying properties of rational numbers. In the next lesson, students will advance... Read more »

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Journey of the Isolated Variable, Part 1

Solving Two-Step Equations

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More 80 minutes
Time Frame 1-2 class period(s)
Journey of the Isolated Variable, Part 2

Solving Multi-Step Equations

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This lesson focuses on the properties of real numbers, properties of equality, and inverse operations to help students deepen their understanding of solving linear equations. Students will learn to isolate variables and apply this knowledge to more complex problems. By the end of the lesson, students... Read more »

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Journey of the Isolated Variable, Part 2

Solving Multi-Step Equations

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More 3 class periods
Time Frame 135 minutes
Journey of the Isolated Variable, Part 3

Literal Equations

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This lesson focuses on solving literal equations by building on the equation-solving knowledge students developed in Parts 1 and 2 of the Journey of the Isolated Variable series. Students will deepen their understanding of rearranging multi-variable equations to isolate a specific variable. By the end... Read more »

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More 120 minutes
Time Frame 2-3 class period(s)
Journey of the Isolated Variable, Part 4

Absolute Value Equations

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In this lesson, students build on prior knowledge of solving equations to learn how to solve absolute value equations. Students then compare and contrast four types of equations including two-step, multi-step, literal, and absolute value equations. This is the fourth lesson in the four-part "Journey... Read more »

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Journey of the Isolated Variable, Part 4

Absolute Value Equations

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More 120 minutes
Time Frame 2-3 class periods
Junk Food Junction: What's Your Function?

What is a Function?

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“Junk Food Junction: What’s Your Function?” breaks down the components of a function and the relationship it has in real-world contexts. The goal is to identify different variables of the given function, either by equation or graph. Participants will identify domain, range, independent, and dependent... Read more »

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More 110 minutes
Time Frame 2-3 class period(s)
Law of Cosines

Triangulation and Mapping

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This is a lesson for Law of Cosines, which also connects Law of Sines and Law of Cosines to map triangulation. Students will receive a brief introduction to Trig Pillars: a tool used in the United Kingdom in the mid-20th century to help with mapmaking. Then, they will go through an informal proof of... Read more »

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Law of Cosines

Triangulation and Mapping

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More 1-2 class period(s)
Time Frame 80-90 minutes
Law of Sines

AAS, ASA, SSA

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In this lesson, students will discover how a given side, side, and angle could result in 0, 1, or 2 triangles. They will then learn the Law of Sines and use it to find missing side lengths and angle measures. This lesson is intended to be taught before the Law of Cosines lesson and after students learn... Read more »

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Law of Sines

AAS, ASA, SSA

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More 2 class periods
Time Frame 80-100 minutes
Life Is a Bell Curve

Sampling Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem

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In this lesson, students will explore the concepts of sampling distributions and the central limit theorem through hands-on activities and practical application in the Deadly Distribution digital game-based learning (DGBL) module. Read more »

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Life Is a Bell Curve

Sampling Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem

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More 180 minutes
Time Frame 3-4 class period(s)