Working individually or in groups, students explore the concept of stress (compression) through physical experience and math. They discover why it hurts more to poke themselves with mechanical pencil lead than with an eraser. Then they prove why this is so by using the basic equation for stress and applying the concepts to real engineering problems.

This task provides students the opportunity to make use of units to find the gas need (N-Q.1). The key point is for them to explain their choices. This task provides an opportunity for students to practice MP2, Reason abstractly and quantitatively, and MP3, Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

Using the LEGO® NXT robotics kit, students construct and program robots to illustrate and explore the Fibonacci sequence. Within teams, students are assigned roles: group leader, chassis builder, arm builder, chief programmer, and Fibonacci verifier. By designing a robot that moves based on the Fibonacci sequence of numbers, they can better visualize how quickly the numbers in the sequence grow. To program the robot to move according to these numbers, students break down the sequence into simple algebraic equations so that the computer can understand the Fibonacci sequence.

This task allows students to relate addition and subtraction problems to money in a context that introduces the concept of scarcity.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, through addition and regrouping in base sixty, Matt helps Digit figure out what time his CyberSoufflŰ__ŒŰÖ will be done.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about filling in the missing number to balance the equation.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about filling in the missing + or - sign.

The CyberSquad reviews their budget for the second day of their film shoot in this video from Cyberchase.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad compares their budget with their actual spending from day three of their film shoot.

In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad figures out how to incorporate a new scene into their film while staying within their budget.

Final examination for a class at MIT covering game theory and its application to economics. The exam is one-hour-and-twenty minutes and intended to be open-book. It has four multi-part free response questions focusing on game theory as a solution to economic questions.

Material Description

This resource is a financial calculator that students may use in a finance portion of a mathematics class, a mathematics portion of a business or finance class, or wherever the user may find it useful.

The calculator can find future value and payment/deposit amount of a savings annuity. It can also find present value and withdrawal/payment amount of a payout annuity/loan.

Context for sharing:

The calculator allows students to more quickly solve contextual problems related to personal finance including loans, investments, and amortization, which provides more instruction time for deeper contextual problems.

Additional information about the resource:

The calculator is written in python, hosted by Streamlit, and may be copied and remixed through Github.

Additional links:

Calculator: https://mrozinski10-financial-calc-main-xv3ljm.streamlit.app/

Github: https://github.com/mrozinski10/Financial-Calc

This resource is a financial calculator that students may use in a finance portion of a mathematics class, a mathematics portion of a business or finance class, or wherever the user may find it useful. The calculator can find future value and payment/deposit amount of a savings annuity. It can also find present value and withdrawal/payment amount of a payout annuity/loan.

This simple-looking problem reveals much about how well students understand unit fractions as well as representing fractions on a number line.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding and subtracting - missing operation.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about adding and subtracting - missing operation.

The purpose of this task is to have students work on a sequence of area problems that shows the advantage of increasingly abstract strategies in preparation for developing general area formulas for parallelograms and triangles.