In this lesson students will listen to a story of a boy with chicken pox and participate in a class discussion of chicken pox and what to do when you have a contagious disease. They will incorporate math by graphing who in the class has had the disease. They will draw chicken pox on an outline of a child, then practice mathematical concepts with the spots.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad learns how to read a thermometer as they try to keep their chocolate sculpture from melting.
Material Type: Lecture
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about reading the compound units in pounds and ounces.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders an overview of schedules and timelines.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of schedules and timelines.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of schedules and timelines.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
This task provides an opportunity for students to construct linear and exponential functions, including arithmetic and geometric sequences, given a graph, a description of a relationship, or two input-output pairs (include reading these from a table).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this task students have the opportunity to construct linear and exponential functions, including arithmetic and geometric sequences, given a graph, a description of a relationship, or two input-output pairs (include reading these from a table).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This task provides an opportunity for students to construct linear and exponential functions, including arithmetic and geometric sequences, given a graph, a description of a relationship, or two input-output pairs (include reading these from a table).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this task students are asked to analyze a function and its inverse when the function is given as a table of values. In addition to finding values of the inverse function from the table, they also have to explain why the given function is invertible.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Standard maps of the earth are broken into a grid of latitude lines (east-west) and longitude lines (north-south). Consider the function, $N(\ell)$, th...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: In 1901, the San Francisco mint produced only 72,664 quarters. By comparison, during other years around the turn of the century they made between 1 mil...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Below are population estimates for the larger metropolitan areas of Paris (France), Shenzhen (China), and Lagos (Nigeria) for each decade between 1950 ...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Below is a table showing the approximate boiling point of water at different elevations: Elevation (meters above sea level)Boiling Point (degrees Celsi...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This problem is an exponential function example.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This task is designed as a follow-up to the task F-LE Do Two Points Always Determine a Linear Function? Linear equations and linear functions are closely related, and there advantages and disadvantages to viewing a given problem through each of these points of view. This task is intended to show the depth of the standard F-LE.2 and its relationship to other important concepts of the middle school and high school curriculum, including ratio, algebra, and geometry.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This task involves a fairly straightforward decaying exponential. Filling out the table and developing the general formula is complicated only by the need to work with a fraction that requires decisions about rounding and precision.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The problem statement describes a changing algae population as reported by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. In part (a), students are expected to build an exponential function modeling algae concentration from the description given of the relationship between concentrations in cells/ml and days of rapid growth (F-LE.2).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The task provides an opportunity for students to engage in Mathematical Practice Standard 4: Model with mathematics.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This problem complements the problem ``Do two points always determine a linear function?''
Material Type: Activity/Lab
