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Mathematics
Statistics
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to organize, represent and analyze bivariate categorical data in an appropriate way. In particular this unit aims to identify and help students who have difficulty in:

  • Choosing a suitable, systematic way to
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Mathematics
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Translate between decimal and fraction notation, particularly when the decimals are repeating.
  • Create and solve simple linear equations to find the fractional equivalent of a repeating decimal.
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Mathematics
Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Solve linear equations in one variable with rational number coefficients.
  • Collect like terms.
  • Expand expressions using the distributive property.
  • Categorize linear equations in
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Geometry
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Recognize and visualize transformations of 2D shapes.
  • Translate, reflect and rotate shapes, and combine these transformations.

It also aims to encourage discussion on some common...

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Mathematics
Geometry
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Interpret a situation and represent the variables mathematically.
  • Select appropriate mathematical methods.
  • Interpret and evaluate the data generated.
  • Communicate their reasoning
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Mathematics
Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students use algebra to:

  • Explore relationships between variables in everyday situations.
  • Find unknown values from known values.
  • Find relationships between pairs of unknowns and express these as tables and
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Mathematics
Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to interpret distance–time graphs and, in particular, to help you identify students who:

  • Interpret distance–time graphs as if they are pictures of situations rather than abstract representations of them.
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Mathematics
Statistics
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to select and use mathematical ideas to solve a problem and then compare and critique alternative approaches. The lesson presents students with a distance-time scatter plot representing journeys made by a taxi cab. They...

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Mathematics
Geometry
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how students reason about geometry and, in particular, how well they are able to:

  • Use facts about the angle sum and exterior angles of triangles to calculate missing angles.
  • Apply angle theorems to parallel lines cut by a
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Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students working with square numbers are able to:

  • Choose an appropriate, systematic way to collect and organize data, examining the data for patterns.
  • Describe and explain findings clearly and effectively.
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Mathematics
Geometry
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help students to:

  • Select appropriate mathematics to solve a problem.
  • Compare and evaluate different methods for solving a problem and make generalizations about the appropriateness of different approaches.
  • Understand the Pythagorean
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Mathematics
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Estimate lengths of everyday objects.
  • Convert between decimal and scientific notation.
  • Make comparisons of the size of numbers expressed in both decimal and scientific notation.
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Mathematics
Geometry
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Use the area of right triangles to deduce the areas of other shapes.
  • Use dissection methods for finding areas.
  • Organize an investigation systematically and collect data.
  • Deduce a
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Mathematics
Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Find the slopes and equations of linear graphs defined by pairs of coordinates.
  • Calculate the slope and y-intercept of a straight line.
  • Use the slope and y-intercept of
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Mathematics
Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Interpret a situation and represent the variables mathematically. Select appropriate mathematical methods to use. Explore the effects of systematically varying the constraints.
  • Interpret and
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Mathematics
Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Interpret speed as the slope of a linear graph.
  • Translate between the equation of a line and its graphical representation.
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Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve a real-world problem that involves rates of change. In particular, it will help you assess how well students are able to create, compare, and evaluate different representations of functions.

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Mathematics
Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Classify solutions to a pair of linear equations by considering their graphical representations.
  • Use substitution to complete a table of values for a linear equation.
  • Identify a linear
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Mathematics
Algebra 1
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to create and solve linear equations. In particular, the lesson will help you identify and help students who have the following difficulties:

  • Solving equations with one variable.
  • Solving linear
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Mathematics
8
Middle (6-8)

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

  • Recall and use the properties of exponents to generate equivalent numeric expressions.
  • Identify the appropriate property to use and apply it correctly.
  • Check the numerical value of an
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