7th Grade Math Lesson on Scale Drawing: Create Your Dream Home
Invite your students to utilize their imaginations and create scale drawings to find real-life object sizes. Have your class design a dream home and …
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Construct an Ancient Roman City & Find the Volume & Surface Area of Its Buildings: 7th Grade Lesson Plan
Teach your students the real-life application of volume and surface area by designing and constructing their own cities!
Continue ReadingUsing Formulas to Find the Area of a Triangle: Sixth Grade Math Lesson Plan
Let your students make the connection between hands-on methods and using the mathematical formula to find the area of a triangle!
Continue ReadingUsing Units & a Formula to Find the Volume of Rectangular Prism: 6th Grade Math Lesson with Chocolate Boxes!
Teach your students a fun way to understand volume by letting them create their own chocolate company boxes!
Continue ReadingFinding the Surface Area of 3-D Shapes with Boxes & Wrapping Paper: 6th Grade Lesson
Teach your students to understand the concept and use a formula to find surface area of real-life objects. In this lesson your students will explore …
Continue ReadingA Lesson on Scientific Notation for Grade 8: Studying Large Numbers in Space
To a theme of an astronomer studying asteroids in space, students will use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of …
Continue ReadingBuilding Cube Towers & Finding Their Roots: 8th Grade Math
Students will solve problems involving perfect cubes and cube roots of small perfect cubes.
Continue ReadingBuilding Square Patios and Their Roots: 8th Grade Math Lesson on Perfect Squares
Students will solve problems involving perfect squares and square roots of small perfect squares.
Continue ReadingConverting & Comparing Numbers Written in Scientific Notation: Grade 8 Math Lesson
To the theme of a biologist researching microorganisms living in pond water, students will use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times …
Continue ReadingExploring Positive and Negative Integer Exponents: Grade 8 Math Lesson
Students will use positive and negative integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions for very large and very small numbers.
Continue ReadingExploring Properties of Integer Exponents and Radicals: 8th Grade Math Lesson
Students will use properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions for very large and very small numbers.
Continue ReadingExplaining the Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem: Eighth Grade Math Lesson
Students will explore areas of three similar shapes constructed on the sides of a right triangle. They will discover the sum of the area of the …
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