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This page from West Texas A&M University provides help for students in college algebra, intermediate algebra, beginning algebra, math for the sciences, and GRE mathematics preparation. Each area contains a number of individual tutorials that increase in difficulty. The GRE prep section includes two...
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This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features a mathematics activity designed for sixth graders. During this activity, students model plankton and temperature data in the Antarctic Ocean to "determine whether a research vessel will collide with whales." Students will learn to...
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This 5-page paper, provided by the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, discusses a computer game that uses techniques such as gender-neutral characters and storytelling to help get female and male students interested in higher-level mathematical and strategic...
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This resource is a 3 Act Math lesson from the When Math Happens website. Each Act includes a video and a set of questions. The first video shows three different shapes being 'dumped' into three different buckets. Each bucket is then given a total value. During the lesson students guess how many...
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Lesson Description: This lesson is the second of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson, students work individually and in groups to measure wood blocks cut into fractional lengths and use...
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In this 6-page document, Chris Hancock and Scot Osterweil explain a computer game, the Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. The intent of this computer game is to make math fun for girls and young women, while introducing concepts such as logical relationships, graphing and algebra. This paper may be...
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