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Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
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This lesson unit is intended to help students to:
* Compare, convert between and order fractions, decimals and percents.
* Use area and linear models of fractions, decimals and percents to understand equivalence.
Students are asked to apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.

Subject:
Mathematics
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Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
12/28/2015
Functions and Everyday Situations
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: articulate verbally the relationships between variables arising in everyday contexts; translate between everyday situations and sketch graphs of relationships between variables; interpret algebraic functions in terms of the contexts in which they arise; and reflect on the domains of everyday functions and in particular whether they should be discrete or continuous.

Subject:
Functions
Mathematics
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Assessment
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Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Generalizing Patterns: Table Tiles
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to identify linear and quadratic relationships in a realistic context: the number of tiles of different types that are needed for a range of square tabletops. In particular, this unit aims to identify and help students who have difficulties with: choosing an appropriate, systematic way to collect and organize data; examining the data and looking for patterns; finding invariance and covariance in the numbers of different types of tile; generalizing using numerical, geometrical or algebraic structure; and describing and explaining findings clearly and effectively.

Subject:
Algebra
Geometry
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
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Assessment
Lesson Plan
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Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Generalizing Patterns: The Difference of Two Squares
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students working with square numbers are able to: choose an appropriate, systematic way to collect and organize data, examining the data for patterns; describe and explain findings clearly and effectively; generalize using numerical, geometrical, graphical and/or algebraic structure; and explain why certain results are possible/impossible, moving towards a proof.

Subject:
Algebra
Geometry
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
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Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Geometry Problems: Circles and Triangles
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to use geometric properties to solve problems. In particular, the lesson will help you identify and help students who have the following difficulties: solving problems by determining the lengths of the sides in right triangles; and finding the measurements of shapes by decomposing complex shapes into simpler ones. The lesson unit will also help students to recognize that there may be different approaches to geometrical problems, and to understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of those approaches.

Subject:
Geometry
Mathematics
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Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Identifying Similar Triangles
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how students reason about geometry and, in particular, how well they are able to: use facts about the angle sum and exterior angles of triangles to calculate missing angles; apply angle theorems to parallel lines cut by a transversal; interpret geometrical diagrams using mathematical properties to identify similarity of triangles.

Subject:
Geometry
Mathematics
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Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Increasing and Decreasing Quantities by a Percent
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to interpret percent increase and decrease, and in particular, to identify and help students who have the following difficulties: translating between percents, decimals, and fractions; representing percent increase and decrease as multiplication; and recognizing the relationship between increases and decreases.

Subject:
Mathematics
Ratios and Proportions
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Assessment
Lesson Plan
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Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Inscribing and Circumscribing Right Triangles
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to use geometric properties to solve problems. In particular, it will help you identify and help students who have difficulty: decomposing complex shapes into simpler ones in order to solve a problem; bringing together several geometric concepts to solve a problem; and finding the relationship between radii of inscribed and circumscribed circles of right triangles.

Subject:
Geometry
Mathematics
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Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Interpreting Algebraic Expressions
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to translate between words, symbols, tables, and area representations of algebraic expressions. It will help teachers to identify and support students who have difficulty in: recognizing the order of algebraic operations; recognizing equivalent expressions; and understanding the distributive laws of multiplication and division over addition (expansion of parentheses).

Subject:
Algebra
Mathematics
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Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Interpreting Equations
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The lesson is 22 pages and about interpreting equations.  It starts off with the mathematical goals and standards for the lesson. The resource is laid out with easy to  follow instructions.   There are various bolded titles starting with an introduction, materials needed, it gives a suggested lesson outline, along with practice examples.  The resource uses black and red text to show the difference between what the teacher needs to do/say and wha the student needs to do.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
01/18/2017
Interpreting Statistics: A Case of Muddying the Waters
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: interpret data and evaluate statistical summaries; and critique someone elseŐs interpretations of data and evaluations of statistical summaries. The lesson also introduces students to the dangers of misapplying simple statistics in real-world contexts, and illustrates some of the common abuses of statistics and charts found in the media.

Subject:
Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Laws of Arithmetic
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to: Perform arithmetic operations, including those involving whole-number exponents, recognizing and applying the conventional order of operations; Write and evaluate numerical expressions from diagrammatic representations and be able to identify equivalent expressions; apply the distributive and commutative properties appropriately; and use the method for finding areas of compound rectangles.

Subject:
Geometry
Mathematics
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Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Lines and Linear Equations
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This lesson unit is intended to help teahcers assess how well students are able to interpret speed as the slope of a linear graph and translate between the equation of a line and its graphical representation.

Subject:
Algebra
Mathematics
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Maximizing Area: Gold Rush
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to: Interpret a situation and represent the variables mathematically; select appropriate mathematical methods to use; explore the effects on the area of a rectangle of systematically varying the dimensions whilst keeping the perimeter constant; interpret and evaluate the data generated and identify the optimum case; and communicate their reasoning clearly.

Subject:
Geometry
Mathematics
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Maximizing Profits: Selling Boomerangs
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This lesson is designed to help students develop strategies for solving optimization problems. Such problems typically involve using limited resources to greatest effect, as in, for example, the allocation of time and materials to maximize profit.
Before the lesson, students attempt the problem individually. You then review their work and formulate questions for students to answer in order to improve their solutions.At the start of the lesson, students work alone answering your questions.Students are then grouped and engage in a collaborative discussion of the same task. In the same small groups, students are given sample solutions to comment on and evaluate.In a whole-class discussion, students explain and compare solution strategies seen and used.Finally, students revise their individual solutions and comment on what they have learned.
Materials required
Each individual student will need a copy of the  task, some plain paper, a calculator, and a copy of the How Did You Work? questionnaire.Each small group of students will need copies of the Sample Responses to Discuss.Graph paper should be kept in reserve and used only when necessary or requested.
Time needed
Approximately 15 minutes before the lesson, a 1-hour lesson, and 10 minutes in a follow-up lesson.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
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Assessment Item
Formative Assessment
Learning Task
Lesson Plan
Self Assessment
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
10/28/2015
Medical Testing
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: make sense of a real life situation and decide what math to apply to the problem; understand and calculate the conditional probability of an event A, given an event B, and interpret the answer in terms of a model; represent events as a subset of a sample space using tables, tree diagrams, and Venn diagrams; and interpret the results and communicate their reasoning clearly.

Subject:
Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Modeling Conditional Probabilities 1: Lucky Dip
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: Understand conditional probability; represent events as a subset of a sample space using tables and tree diagrams; and communicate their reasoning clearly.

Subject:
Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Modeling Conditional Probabilities 2
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students understand conditional probability, and, in particular, to help teachers identify and assist students who have the following difficulties: representing events as a subset of a sample space using tables and tree diagrams; and understanding when conditional probabilities are equal for particular and general situations.

Subject:
Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Modeling Situations With Linear Equations
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students use algebra in context, and in particular, how well students: explore relationships between variables in everyday situations; find unknown values from known values; find relationships between pairs of unknowns, and express these as tables and graphs; and find general relationships between several variables, and express these in different ways by rearranging formulae.

Subject:
Algebra
Mathematics
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017
Optimization Problems: Boomerangs
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This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: interpret a situation and represent the constraints and variables mathematically; select appropriate mathematical methods to use; explore the effects of systematically varying the constraints; interpret and evaluate the data generated and identify the optimum case, checking it for confirmation; and communicate their reasoning clearly.

Subject:
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Material Type:
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Date Added:
11/01/2017