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6th grade algebra laboratories
How Many Licks to the Center of a Tootsie Pop? Statistics!
Looking for novel way to get your middle school students excited about math and statistics?!
This file contains everything you need to conduct the experiment (except the Tootsie Pops!) that answers the age old question "How many licks does it take to get the center of a tootsie pop?" The lesson covers mean, median, mode, range, outliers, tables, graphs, box and whisker plots, data collection, pre and post discussion questions, experimental procedures, and student reflection. I also provided a s
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6th - 9th
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Investigating the Spread of a Viral Outbreak
Students in grades 5 - 9 model the spread of an infectious disease under the entertaining theme of a zombie outbreak. One student unknowingly is patient zero and students simulate the spread of an airborne illness. This highly engaging activity covers health topics, nature of science, and math skills as students graph data in a line plot. Higher level students can be challenged to find the function of the exponential growth of the outbreak.
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6th - 9th
Math Lab: Terminating and Repeating Decimals/DISTANCE LEARNING/NO PREP
This is a GREAT lab for students to discover the value of patterns in our wonderful world of mathematics! * In the lesson, students DO discover a relationship between fractions and decimals beginning with NINETEEN FRACTIONS THAT STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO DIVIDE THE NUMERATOR BY THE DENOMINATOR ON EACH.* Students learn the meaning of the terms "terminating" and "repeating" relative to decimals.* Students learn how and when it is appropriate to use the bar above repeating decimals. *
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6th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ms. Burrows' Human Body Proportion Lab Parts 1 and 2
A full description of this lab is free to download on TCP under my other listings. This is printable lab worksheet for students to use for the Human Body Proportions Lab.
This is an EXCELLENT lesson that both you and your students will enjoy.
Ms. Burrows Body Proportions Lab by Dana M. Burrows is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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6th - 10th
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"Watts Your Power on the Stairs?" Quick lab calculating work and power
This lab activity has students compare the work and power they have while walking and running up a flight of stairs. This is a pretty common lab activity, but I just could not find a student handout that had exactly what I was looking for. So, I made this one and hope you will try it out and let me know how it goes!
Students will have to measure the distance and time of each trial, and use the work and power formulas. They will also identify the independent variable, dependent variable, cons
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6th - 12th
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Algebra: Measures of Central Tendency Skittles Activity
Fun way for students to practice using measures of central tendency: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range. Activity also reviews percentages. Students have so much fun working, collaborating, drawing, and of course love eating skittles!
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6th - 9th
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Activity: Measuring in Units of My Foot - Writing Simple Equations
In this activity, students use measuring skills & write one-step equations. An answer key is provided. Students measure the length of their foot (in inches) and use it as a base unit for expressing the length of different objects. Students use the variable "f" and a coefficient (number of footsteps) to write a simple equation for the length of an object. You can add the challenge of having students evaluate the expression. This measuring activity can be used in a math or numeracy class, as w
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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LEGO Robotics Introduction
Here's a 10-15 day set of activities for introducing the LEGO Mindstorms Robots! In this packet, you get:* SEVEN Robot activities!* An EXCEL Activity creating a multiple line graph.* Programming challenges from basic to hard.* Build Guide for "Reece's Runner" Robot* Robot Challenge Design PlansI use this as a 10-day Module in my classroom.
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5th - 8th
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GRAVITY: how much would you weigh
This is a nice little activity for helping your students get to understand how gravity works. In this activity students will be required to calculate how much they weigh on other planets in our solar system. Once they know how much they would weigh, they are required to create a bar graph showing how much they weigh on each planet in graphical form.
This covers common core standard #7, integration of knowledge and ideas.
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5th - 12th
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Pennies and Dice Probability Experiment - Statistics, Probability, and Data #9
In this hands-on activity, students will flip a coin and roll a six-sided die 200 times each to see if the results of their tests matches up with the hypothetical probability of each result.If you don't have coins or dice, there are online virtual versions of coins and dice.Assignment fits on one double-sided sheet.
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Middle School Statistics, Probability, and Data Bundle
How Much for Those Fries? The Math in Action Series.
Ever wonder how the price at a "Fast Food" restaurant may be determined. This activity may just answer that question for you. The application of mathematical theory has always been the "when will I ever use this Real Life" attitude from our students. I created this lesson to reinforce the theory of graphing data, calculating an equation of best fit, and formulating a conclusion. Each student will be able to see the usefulness of mathematics in a Real World setting. Common core stand
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
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Skittles Proportion Activity
Students are to be provided a bag of skittles. They are going to use proportions and ratios to determine if there are the same number/ratio of each color in all different sized bags.
I had students work in groups of 2 for this activity. Within the activity I broke it up into three different sections; a pre-lab, lab, and post-lab portion. Students make initial guesses/hypothesis, test out their theory, use proportions and ratios to analyze their results and graph data.
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4th - 9th
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Solving Equations -- Virtual Manipulatives Lab for Middle School Math CCSS
This lab guides students through two of the algebra virtual manipulatives (applets) from the nlvm website: Algebra Balance Scales and Algebra Balance Scales - Negatives. These virtual manipulatives are a great way for students to explore solving two-step equations with positive and negative coefficients in a fun and conceptual format. My students really enjoy working through these labs and I enjoy the math understanding and discussions that follow. Five other nlvm labs for Middle School Math ar
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6th - 8th
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Investigating Linear Graphs
I built this discovery lesson so that students would learn, hands-on, how to build a graph based on data they collected from their own investigation. Materials you will need for this lab include a set of cups that are stackable and several small toy cars. For this task you will need:Toy carsCupsMarshmallows
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6th - 9th
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Algebra Lab: Pythagorean Theorem - How high is that mark?
Students love hands on learning. Help your students understand and remember the Pythagorean Theorem by having them do this lab.
Students will work in teams to use PCV pipes, tape measures, and calculators to determine the height of tape marks the teacher has placed high on a school wall.
The lab includes:
* Materials list
* Instructions (with suggestions for success)
* Student response sheet
* Pre-lab warm-up
Very aligned to the common core. Can be used with classes from 6th
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6th - 10th
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Hands On Experiment: Circumference, Diameter and Pi
This is a great, hands-on activity that allows students to discover the relationship between circumference and diameter. There are other activities like this on TPT, but none as detailed and rooted in constructivist learning like this one.There is nothing high tech required for this experiment, just some circular or spherical objects and measuring tapes. You can use string if you don't have measuring tapes.This experiment asks students to not only collect the experimental data, but also to use y
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6th - 12th
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Solving Equations 2 -- Virtual Manipulatives Lab for Middle School Math CCSS
This lab guides students through a second take of two of the algebra virtual manipulatives (applets) from the nlvm website: Algebra Balance Scales and Algebra Balance Scales - Negatives. These virtual manipulatives are a great way for students to explore solving three-step equations with positive and negative coefficients in a fun and conceptual format. My students really enjoy working through these labs and I enjoy the math understanding and discussions that follow. Five other nlvm labs for Mi
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6th - 8th
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Which Speed for Best Gas Mileage? Math in Action series.
Newly revised and improved. What speed will provide the best gas mileage? This lesson was created to reinforce analyzing and graphing data, identify the independent and dependent variable, calculate the slope of the line passing through the points, project rentals from their analysis, and formulate a conclusion. As an optional activity the student is asked to calculate the equation of the line for the data and compare the result to the one presented in the activity. This activity provides ea
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5th - 11th
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My Own Ice Cream Cone: Slope Activities 1
Introductory lesson to using data to create a linear growth graph and model by building "fake" ice cream cones. Templates are included for the cones and scoops. Instructions for the teacher are also included. Contact me at hrudolph@orangecsd.org for details or clarification. Students will be introduced to appropriate vocabulary such as initial amount, slope, intercept, growth, increasing, model, trend, linear function or linear equation. Lamination is helpful for re-using the materials! A
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5th - 8th
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Math Discovery Lab: Square Roots, Multiples of 10, Rational vs Irrational
This is one of a series of self-guided discovery labs for a meaningful understanding of core mathematical concepts. Students use the familiar format of the scientific method to answer a mathematical question/problem. In this lab, students investigate the relationships among square roots, perfect squares, and positive and negative powers of ten (10). This math lab also explores when the square root of numbers such as 0.016, 0.16, 1.6, 16, 160, 1600 are rational or irrational. Full answ
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4th - 10th
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Quest- Scaling Tornadoes, A Cross-Curricular Proportion Activity on Tornadoes!
If your students are like my students, my children, and even me, it can be difficult to imagine the awesome scale and size of a tornado! Viral video clips and aftermath photographs don't give justice to the monstrous size of these natural phenomena. When working with tornado-related concepts, it is important that students understand how tornadoes are ranked and how large they can be. These concepts could even be the difference between life and death if students find themselves in the path of a t
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6th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-5
Also included in:Â Natural Disaster Bundle
Math Lab How to Draw a Fibonacci Spiral and DISTANCE LEARNING/NO PREP
I am absolutely excited to share the following Math Lab that teaches students how to draw a Fibonacci Spiral!* This lab is an outstanding way to open any lesson or unit on sequences!* Leonardo Fibonacci is introduced and it is explained to students how the sequence got its name.* Students are given examples of the Fibonacci Sequence as it appears in nature and in architecture.* A list of materials required to complete this lab is provided in the lab.* Students follow well-defined steps to
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â BUNDLE: Draw the Fibonacci Spiral, Fibonacci in Nature, Golden Ratio
Algebra Lab: Solving One-Step Equations Student Investigation
Students will build and use their own balance to make and solve simple one-step equations.
In this lab, students use a coat hanger, cups, pipe cleaner, pencil, and books to build a simple balance on their desk. Then they use pennies to find the weight of items the teacher has bundled into small mystery objects.
Students set up simple equations such as 3x = 12 pennies and then solve for the weight of x in pennies. At the end, the teacher reveals the mystery objects and the weight of each
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6th - 9th
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Functions -- Virtual Manipulatives Lab for Middle School Math Common Core
This lab guides students through four of the algebra virtual manipulatives (applets) from the nlvm website: Point Plotter, Line Plotter, Grapher, and Function Machine. These virtual manipulatives are a great way for students to explore the foundations of functions and graphs in a fun and conceptual format. My students really enjoy working through these labs and I enjoy the math understanding and discussions that follow. Five other nlvm labs for Middle School Math are available in My TpT Store -
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