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Lesson Title/Description
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CA Standards
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NCTM Standards
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All Those Advertising
Dollars
After getting information from advertising statistics
available on the Internet, students will calculate percent
increases (or percent decreases) for the top 25 companies in
terms of advertising dollars spent during a year.
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Gr 4:
1.1
Gr 5:
1.2
Gr 6: 1.1,
2.5
Gr 7:
1.1, 1.3
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5-8: 1,
3,
4,
7,
10
9-12: 1,
3,
4,
10
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Assorted Sports
(by area) You have played games all your life. You know some
playing fields are larger than others. (Imagine playing
football on a tennis court) You will discover the dimensions
of the different sports and compute the area of the playing
fields.
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Gr 4:
1.3
Gr 5:
1.4
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
8,
13
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The Bigger They Are . .
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"Man, he really put his weight into that one!", "The only
reason he gets more rebounds is because he is so tall!",
"They don't cover him anymore because he is so old, that is
why he catches so many passes! "Are any of these statements
legitimate? The students will examine the league leaders in
each of these categories to see if there is any truth to
those statements.
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Gr 4:
1.1, 1.3
Gr 5:
1.4
Gr 6: 2.3,
2.5
Gr 7:
1.2
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5-8: 1,
2,
5,
7,
10,
13
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Calculating
Free-throw Percentages
Time has run out in the big basketball game, and the score
is tied. However, Up-State College has the
ball with time out. You're the coach. Which players should
you put into the game to give you the best chance of
winning? This is one in a series of on-line interactive
pages exploring probability and statistics in real life.
These lessons utilize on-line simulations to generate
data.
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Gr 6:
2.5, 3.2
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5-8: 1,
3,
7,
10
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California Here We
Come!
A trip across the USA. Each team will choose any state
capital on the east coast as their starting point. They will
travel west stopping at each state capital along the way and
record miles traveled. Each student group will create a
chart or table showing the number of miles traveled from
state capital to state capital and then total number of
miles driven. Be the team to reach Sacramento, California
with the fewest number of miles traveled to win the
prize.
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Gr 4:
1.2
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
7,
10
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College Fund from Great
Aunt Betty
Great Aunt Betty left you $1,000 to go towards your college
fund. Now, you will be investing your new found money into a
30 month CD. The account will be automatic, since it will be
done through the Web site. Your job will be to calculate the
growth of your CD for seven years.
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Gr 4:
1.1
Gr 5:
1.3
Gr 6: 3.1,
3.3
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10
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Curve Fitting and
the TI-85 calculator
This is a step-by-step guide for using the TI-85 Graphing
Calculator to do scatter plots using data obtained from
sources on the Internet. Some information will model linear
functions and some will be models of exponential
functions.
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Gr 7:
1.2
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9-12: 1,
3,
5,
6
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Discovering Growth
Patterns
The differences between linear and exponential growth
functions is emphasized in this lesson. A student page
instructs students to locate four specified sites on the
Internet. After data is collected on the student worksheet,
pattern predictions are made. Graphing the collected data is
done using ClarisWorks spreadsheet or by using pencil and
grid paper. Student description and analysis concludes the
lesson.
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Gr 7:
1.2
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
8,
9
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Does More Wins Mean More
Fans At The Ballpark?
After getting information from the past baseball season off
the Internet, students will calculate an attendance-to-win
ratio for each of the 28 major league teams and then study
the results to see if winning always leads to good
attendance.
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Gr 4:
1.3, 2.1
Gr 5:
1.2
Gr 6: 2.4,
2.5, 3.5
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7
9-12: 1,
2,
3,
4
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Exquisite
Excursions
Students will locate 6 cities, one on each of the 6 major
continents. They will find distance for each leg of their
journey, convert to percents, use a time zone map, and
convert to foreign currencies. The class will estimate the
circumference of the earth and find the range, mean, median,
mode(s) and possible outliers for the estimates.
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Gr 4:
1.2
Gr 5:
1.1
Gr 6:
1.1
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5-8: 1,
2,
5,
7,
10,
12
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Graphing the
Weather
Students will use the Internet to find a 5 day forecast and
use the graphing page to graph that forecast.
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Gr 4:
1.3
Gr 5:
1.2
Gr 6:
1.1
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Hollywood's Top
Ten
Students will gather data on the top 10 highest grossing
movies, and make a bar graph and a pictogram.
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Gr 7:
1.1, 1.3
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7
9-12: 1,
2,
3,
4,
10
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How Many Different
Ways
"How Many Different Ways" is a Discrete Mathematics Lesson
where you will ultimately work on your addition and
multiplication skills. Not only will there be a connection
with counting, adding, and multiplying, but there will also
be a connection made with Pascal's Triangle.
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Gr 4:
2.1
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K-4: 1,
3,
4,
11
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It's Your Life
This is a 3 part lesson utilizing census data of the mean
income of workers 18 years and older by education attainment
levels. The data is also broken into gender and 3 ethnic
groups - white, black, and Hispanic. Students will
analyze census data to create graphs and take part in a
simulation using this same data as a starting point to make
financial decisions and budgets. Some familiarity with line
and bar graphs is helpful.
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Gr 6:
1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5
Gr 7:
1.1
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"M&Ms"® Candies Line Plots
and Graphing
Using small individual bags of "M&Ms"® Candies, students
will do activities including, estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median,
mode, and averaging.
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Gr 4:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2
Gr 5: 1.1,
1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Gr 6: 1.1,
1.4, 2.1, 3.2
Gr 7:
1.1, 1.3
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K-4: 1,
2,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
11,
12,
13
5-8: 1,
2,
4,
7,
8,
10,
11
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Place Value Population -
Rounding Off
Students start by collecting and rounding data about their
school. They move on to gathering and rounding larger
numbers from the Internet.
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Gr 5:
1.2, 1.3
Gr 6:
2.1
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K-4: 1,
3,
4,
12
5-8: 1,
3,
4,
7,
8,
9,
10
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Population Ratios
An interdisciplinary project (mathematics, social studies)
where students choose a county in the United States and
using ratios convert the statistics into meaningful
numbers.
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Gr 5:
1.3
Gr 6: 3.1,
3.5
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5-8: 1,
3,
4,
5,
7,
9,
10
9-12: 1,
3,
4,
5,
10
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The Probability of
Pintails
Many things are possible, but the chances of something's are
even better than that. They are probable. Students use
percentages to calculate the probability and probable number
of various types of ducks in a wildlife refuge.
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Gr 4:
2.1, 2.2
Gr 5:
1.3
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K-4: 1,
2,
4,
8,
11,
12
5-8: 1,
2,
4,
5,
6,
7,
10,
11
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Raisin Cane
California's San Joaquin Valley is the largest agricultural
producing area in the world. Raisins are an important part
of the valley's agriculture. This activity will prompt
students to estimate and count how many raisins come in a
box and then chart the results.
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Gr 5:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Gr 6: 1.1,
2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 3.2
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K-4: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
10,
11,
13
5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
8,
10,
11,
13
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Shopping for Toys
You have just won a $100 gift certificate to buy some toys!
You must try to spend as much of it as you can without going
over. Let's go shopping and have some fun!
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Gr 2:
1.1
Gr 4:
1.1
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K-4: 1,
2,
3,
4,
8,
12
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Sorting Through
Spiders
Children need extensive opportunities to think about,
question, discuss and manipulate data in order to learn how
to ask and answer the whys in mathematics. In this activity,
children will utilize their own drawings of spiders to
analyze and sort the attributes that each child drew. I
leave it very open-ended for the students to choose the
categories from which to sort.
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Gr 2:
1.2, 1.4
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Sports Teams &
Math
How many of you like sports? How many of you would like to
see how your favorite NFL football team is doing? Today we
are going to look up NFL sports teams on the web and analyze
their statistics.
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Gr 4:
1.2
Gr 5:
1.1
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State Internet Search: A
Mathematical Introduction To State Reports
As a mathematical beginning to their state reports students
complete a 2 day assignment which involves critical
thinking, reasoning, graphing, and locating information on
Web sites.
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Gr 4:
1.3
Gr 5:
1.4
Gr 6: 2.1,
2.5
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
7,
10
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Surfing Amusement
Parks
It's your birthday and your parents have given you the
choice of going to any one of five amusement parks in
California. There is just one catch! They have asked that
you choose one with an entrance fee that is the median price
range. Surf the Internet to find how much it will cost for
your family to go to each park. Graph your findings.
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Gr 4:
1.1, 1.2
Gr 5: 1.1,
1.4
Gr 6: 1.1,
1.4, 2.3
Gr 7:
1.1, 1.3
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K-4: 1,
2,
3,
4,
6,
7,
8,
11,
13
5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
8,
11
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Using Computers to
Produce Spreadsheets and Bar Graphs
Using data from the Glencoe Math book, from Internet sources
or data of your own choice, learn what information and
formulas to use to create a spreadsheet and the bar graphs
to show the data pictorially.
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Gr 4:
1.1, 1.2
Gr 5: 1.1,
1.2
Gr 6:
1.1,1.4. 3.1
Gr 7:
1.2
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5-8: 1,
3,
5,
7,
10
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What Are We Listening
To?
Students will gather data from a web site on number of music
albums sold by genre for the last two years. They will
convert these figures to fractions, decimals, and percents.
They will then display the results in bar graphs and pie
charts. Finally, they will answer questions about their
graphs.
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Gr 7:
1.1
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
10,
13
9-12: 1,
2,
3,
4,
7,
10
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What on Earth is Greater
Than?
Students will use deductive reasoning skills to compare and
place in order planets according to size.
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Gr 5:
1.2
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Where do I want to
live?
This is a segment of a larger Social Studies Project.
Students use a variety of Internet sources to gather income
and population data. They then use the data to compare
states and make decisions.
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Gr 4:
1.1
Gr 5: 1.1,
1.2
Gr 6: 1.1,
1.4, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 3.2
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K-4: 1,
2,
3,
4,
6,
7,
8,
11
5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
10
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