Bianca Gets in Gear
(View Complete Item Description)Bianca visits a bike shop and learns how bicycle gears work in this Cyberchase video segment.
Material Type: Lecture
All resources in Wisconsin Digital Learning Collaborative CCSS Math Resources
Digit in Pursuit
(View Complete Item Description)The CyberSquad tracks Digital position in time and then studies graphs to figure out what Hacker is scheming in this video from Cyberchase.
Material Type: Lecture
Hexagons
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad tessellates hexagons to finish crossing the lava river. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
Comparing Regular and Irregular Areas
(View Complete Item Description)The CyberSquad proves that the area of Hacker's land is equal to the area of Judge Trudy's land in this video segment from Cyberchase.
Material Type: Lecture
Bianca Goes to the Movie
(View Complete Item Description)This Cyberchase video segment features Bianca, who must figure out the fastest route to a movie premiere.
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Estimating Distance and Travel Time
(View Complete Item Description)In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad estimates how much air supply they will need to complete an underwater mission. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
The Fastest Broom
(View Complete Item Description)The CyberSquad tests which broom can travel the furthest in five seconds in this video from Cyberchase.
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Aiming For the Basketball Hall of Fame
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment from TV 411, two Atlanta Hawks players plan a driving route to reach the Basketball Hall of Fame. They use map scales to estimate their travel distances. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
Basic Math Facts Fluency
(View Complete Item Description)Every math teacher struggles to find ways to encourage students to master their basic facts. Whether for addition and subtraction facts or for multiplication and division facts, teachers collect many ideas from which they can draw activities to meet the varied needs of learners in their classes. Games and Who Has? activities are especially motivational and continual play can help students develop fact fluency in an effort to master the games and capture the most points.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game
Congruent Polygons
(View Complete Item Description)An interactive applet and associated web page that demonstrate the congruence of polygons. The applet presents nine polygons that are in fact congruent, but don't look it because they are reflected and rotated in various ways. If you click on one, it rotates and flips as needed, then slides over the top of another to show it is congruent. The web page describes how to determine if two polygons are congruent. Applet can be enlarged to full screen size for use with a classroom projector. This resource is a component of the Math Open Reference Interactive Geometry textbook project at http://www.mathopenref.com.
Material Type: Reading, Simulation
Scaling Up Photographs
(View Complete Item Description)In this Cyberchase video segment, Bianca volunteers to take over an important job at a copy shop. She must make a life-size copy of a photo of the King of Sloovoonia. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
Find Those Gleamers
(View Complete Item Description)The CyberSquad uses algebra to figure out how many gleamers they need and how many power glows are produced by each gleamer as they must power up a Cyberspace ship in this video from Cyberchase. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
Bianca the Spy
(View Complete Item Description)This video segment from Cyberchase introduces the idea of inverse operations as Bianca imagines herself as a spy.
Material Type: Lecture
The DjinniŐs Offer
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this task is to introduce the idea of exponential growth and then connect that growth to expressions involving exponents. It illustrates well how fast exponential expressions grow.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Equivalent Expressions
(View Complete Item Description)In this problem students must transform expressions using the distributive, commutative and associative properties to decide which expressions are equivalent.
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Watch out for Parentheses
(View Complete Item Description)This problem asks the student to evaluate three numerical expressions that contain the same integers yet have differing results due to placement of parentheses.
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Busy Day
(View Complete Item Description)This task provides a good entry point for students into representing quantities in contexts with variables and expressions and building equations that reflect the relationships presented in the context.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Chocolate Bar Sales
(View Complete Item Description)In this task students use different representations to analyze the relationship between two quantities and to solve a real world problem. The situation presented provides a good opportunity to make connections between the information provided by tables, graphs and equations.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Distance to School
(View Complete Item Description)This task asks students to find equivalent expressions by visualizing a familiar activity involving distance. The given solution shows some possible equivalent expressions, but there are many variations possible.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Fishing Adventures 1
(View Complete Item Description)This task is the first in a series of three tasks that use inequalities in the same context at increasing complexity in 6th grade, 7th grade and in HS algebra. Students write and solve inequalities, and represent the solutions graphically.
Material Type: Activity/Lab