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Screenshot for Mathematics of Musical Scales
This resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the mathematics of musical scales. "In this activity, students will explore the mathematical principles of musical scales by measuring and graphing the frequencies produced by standard-pitched instruments." This resource briefly...
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This activity from the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FL-ATE) Center asks students to use the concepts of measurement and precision in the context of designing and manufacturing surgical instruments. The interdisciplinary lesson plan involves science, computer technology, math and...
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BLOSSOMS, a video resource library created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, contains over 100 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers as streaming video, Internet downloads, DVDs, and videotapes for use in their classrooms.  Each video lesson contains, which last...
Screenshot for MODE Webinar: Khan Academy Instructional Mathematics Videos in ASL (2 of 3)
This video, published by DeafTEC at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is the second in a series of Math Observation in Deaf Education (MODE) webinars. In the video, Keith Mousley and Nick Catalano talk about their work with Khan Academy in providing instructional mathematics videos in American...
Screenshot for MODE Webinar: Perspectives of a Deaf Mathematician (3 of 3)
This video, published by DeafTEC at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is the last in a series of Math Observation in Deaf Education (MODE) webinars. In the video, Christopher Hayes, a deaf PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut in mathematics discusses his experiences in higher...
Screenshot for MODE Webinar: Remote Teaching Mathematics for Deaf Students (1 of 3)
This video, published by DeafTEC at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is the first in a series of Math Observation in Deaf Education (MODE) webinars. In the video, Dawn Kidd, Nancy McCanless, and Laura Metcalfe discuss the remote teaching of mathematics for deaf students. Remote education...
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This webpage, created by Pamela Redmond for Teaching and Learning Interchange, provides video case studies and resources for instructors who teach math and science.  The video cases "demonstrate lessons from real general science, biology, chemistry, physics, algebra and geometry classrooms at the...
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Lesson Description: This lesson is the seventh of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson, students work in groups followed by whole-class discussion to solve percent problems involving...
Screenshot for Plywood Shims (Lesson 3 of 9)
Lesson Description: This lesson is the third of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson, students work in groups to measure plywood thickness and use that measurement to do calculations (on...
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This webpage features a 3 act math task by Dan Meyer. During this lesson, Meyer takes a piece of paper and make two different cylinders. Meyers tests which cylinder will hold more popcorn. The lesson includes two videos and a number of questions related to the volume of a cylinder. The following is...
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