Featured Brain Teaser. Ask a friend to pick a number from 1 through 1,000. After asking him ten questions that can be answered yes or no, you tell him the number.

Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel: Distance vs. Width A Web Sketchpad activity helps students make sense of relationships between quantities, in this case the way that the distance a car travels around a Ferris wheel covaries with its "width" or horizontal distance from the center of the Ferris wheel

Data Analysis & Probability-Kindergarten. Practice; Counting & Cardinality; Algebraic Thinking; Number & Operations

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In this unit, students use plastic as a context to explore mathematical and environmental concepts. The unit starts with an investigation of the surface area of a right cylinder, using a Geogebra applet to visualize and calculate the surface area of familiar plastic items.

Data Analysis & Probability-Kindergarten. Practice; Counting & Cardinality; Algebraic Thinking; Number & Operations

Students discover the relationships between area and perimeter as they prep for playing Square Off, a wonderful Calculation Nation ® game. This lesson helps students understand the math of area and perimeter, which will help to maximize their scores when playing the game.

Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel: Distance vs. Width A Web Sketchpad activity helps students make sense of relationships between quantities, in this case the way that the distance a car travels around a Ferris wheel covaries with its "width" or horizontal distance from the center of the Ferris wheel

This lesson presents two classic problems (Mangoes Problem and Sailors and Coconuts) that can be represented and solved in several different ways.Middle-grades students work in groups on the problems to promote communication of mathematical ideas, and a variety of classroom solution attempts are described.

This lesson plan presents a classic game-show scenario. A student picks one of three doors in the hopes of winning the prize. The host, who knows the door behind which the prize is hidden, opens one of the two remaining doors.