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- 100 Grid Game – YouCubed
- 5 People Standing
- 5 Things in Common
- 70 Maps That Explain America
- A Brief History of Oil
- A Collection of Visual Patterns Handouts
- A Compass in a Circuit
- A Fabulous New Resource for Teaching Civics and U.S. History
- A Fair Price
- A Good Resource for Helping Students understand GDP
- A History of Us, by Joy Hakim
- A Math Magic Trick
- A Simulation to Model Exponential Growth
- A Very Odd Job
- A Video on the Comma and Semi-Colon
- A Virtual Exploration of Symmetry through Coloring
- A virtual net to investigate the surface area of a cylinder (interactive Geogebra activity)
- ABC Everyday Numbers
- Accurately Weighing Pennies
- Active vs. Passive Learning Research Article
- Adaptation of Four Views of a Function (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
- Adaptation of Function Machines (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
- Adaptation of Growing Number Patterns (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
- Adaptation of Repeating Number Patterns (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
- Adaptation of the Chinese Zodiac problem (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
- Adaptation of Visual Patterns – the catapult pattern (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
- Adaptation of Visual Patterns – the arch problem (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2)
- Adaptation, by the Silversteins
- Adding and Subtracting Integers with 2-Color Counters
- Algebraic Thinking: Interlocking Circles (DESMOS activity)
- Alleviate Math Fears with a Math Fair!
- Analyzing Games of Chance: Roller Derby
- Anchors for Informational Essay
- Aquarium Problem
- Area Maze Puzzles
- Assessing Job Offers
- At the Head of Her Class, and Homeless
- Bacteria Growth
- Bacteria population growth lesson plan
- Bacterial Growth on Hands (video)
- Balancing Act: Math & Science Connections
- Balancing Chemical Equations: Math & Science Connections
- Beginning Curriculum for Adults Learning Math (BeCALM)
- Being Counted: Probability & Statistics, Part 1
- Being Counted: Probability & Statistics, Part 2
- Benchmark Fractions and Percents
- Big History
- Biography of Charles Darwin (podcast)
- Birds’ Eggs
- Building Background Knowledge: Implications for the Classroom
- Building Functions with Cubes
- Calculating Income Taxes: How Does it Work?
- Calculating Volumes of Compound Objects
- Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen Nitrogen (CHON) infographic
- Career Pathway Posts
- Cells & DNA infographic
- Census: Apportionment Data Map
- Central Park (DESMOS activity)
- Changes of State (Middle School Chemistry)
- Character maps
- Characteristics of Living Things
- Charles Darwin, by Kathleen Krull
- Checking phones in lectures can affect students’ learning
- Chemical Change (Middle School Chemistry)
- Civics Packet of Newsela Articles on Social Studies Topics
- Clarity and Conciseness Writing Practice Questions
- Classifying Solutions to Systems of Equations
- Classroom Activities for ESL Learners (teaching videos)
- Clothesline Math
- Collection of Infographics
- CommonLit en Español
- Comparing Data Using Statistical Measures
- Comparing Four Cells: Animal, Plant, Bacteria, Yeast
- Comparing Online Whiteboards
- Concentric Circles
- Condensation
- Connecting Exponential Population Growth and Biological Evolution
- Contagious Diseases and Exponents
- Containers (interpreting key features of graphs)
- Could the Henrietta Lacks Case Happen Today?
- Counting More Antibodies
- Countries in Our Closet (EMPower Math)
- Cover the Field
- CUNY Collection of Math Warm-ups for the Beginning of Class
- CUNY Data, Graphs, and Maps Collection
- CUNY HSE Framework: Math Overview
- CUNY HSE Framework: Reflective Math Teaching
- CUNY HSE Framework: Routines for the Math Classroom
- Dapper Cat: Exploring scatterplots on Desmos
- Datelines: What’s an Acceptable Dating Range?
- Decimal Problems (Open Middle)
- Density (Middle School Chemistry)
- Des-Farm (DESMOS activity)
- Description of NYSED/CUNY Fast Track GRASP Math Packets
- Designing an Aquarium – Volume Problem
- Desmos Exponential Bundle
- Discovering Pi
- Discovering the Magical Pi
- Discovering the Zero Exponent Rule
- Disproving Fake News
- DNA Interactive (Learner.org)
- Does the Metric System Measure Up? (SERP Science Generation)
- Dot Talks
- Dynamic Earth Interactive (Learner.org)
- Earthviewer Online
- Eclipse: Who? What? Where? When? and How? (NASA)
- Economic Systems (reading)
- Economics Packet of Newsela Articles
- ELA – Student Study Packet for the Grammar/Punctuation on the HSE test
- Elephants and Horses
- Engaging Beginning ESOL Students: My Name is Umme
- Equal Measures (EMPower Math)
- ESL Literacy Readers
- Essay Prompts and Readings for the Argumentative Essay
- Essential Practice Problems for HSE Students in Algebra
- Essential Practice Problems for HSE Students in Functions
- Essential Practice Problems for HSE Students in Geometry
- Estimation 180
- Evidence in Bones
- Evidence of Common Ancestry lesson plan (part of Evolution: Unity and Diversity)
- Evolution: Unity and Diversity, a CUNY Lesson Set
- Explore Correlation in Scatterplots of Student Preferences
- Explore the intersection of math & science with student research reports!
- Exploring Algebraic Thinking in a Math Teachers’ Circle (webinar)
- Exploring Linear Data
- Fact vs Opinion (DESMOS activity)
- Factor Game
- Factors and Multiples Warm-up
- Factors, Squares, and Primes
- Fawn Nguyen’s Visual Patterns
- Felicia’s Drive
- Find the Factor – Multiplication and Division Practice
- Fishing Adventures (in mathematical inequalities)
- Fix These Equations
- Fixing the Furnace
- Fizz Buzz Hoot
- Focus 5: Quick exercises for calmness and focus
- Fraction Talks
- Fractions on the Number Line (Open Middle)
- Function Activities with the TI-30XS
- Function Situations
- Function Table Challenge
- GED Math Formula Sheet
- Generalizing Patterns – Table Tiles
- Geometry Problems on Math Memos
- Getting to Know Each Other (DESMOS)
- Government, Federalism, and State & Federal Powers
- Graph from class data
- Graphing and Comparing Linear Equations (DESMOS activity)
- Graphing Stories
- Graphing: Women & People of Color in STEM
- Greatest Common Factors & Least Common Multiples
- Group Count
- Growing Rectangles
- Guess My Rule (game)
- Guide to Grammar
- Guide to Sentence Combining for HSE Students
- Helping students to belong (activity)
- HHMI BioInteractive
- Hit: A Card Game
- How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth
- How big is the 2010 Guatemalan Sinkhole?
- How do you prove air is matter?
- How Fast Was the Fastest Speeding Ticket Ever?
- How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon?
- How Many Chip Bags Will There Be?
- How Many Hot Dogs Did They Eat?
- How many pyramids does it take to fill a rectangular prism?
- How Many Stars are There in the Universe?
- How Much Does a 100×100 In-N-Out Cheeseburger Cost?
- How the First Life Forms Made Earth What it is Today (reading)
- How to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using fraction strips
- How to Learn Math: Four Key Messages
- How to Spot a Misleading Graph
- HSE Life Science Lessons designed for Zoom
- HSE Practice Test Questions based on the Taxi Cab Problem
- HSE-Style Problem Assessment Packet, Aligned to Units 1-4
- I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write
- Inequalities on the Number Line (DESMOS activity)
- Informative Essay on Fake News
- Integer Solitaire
- Interactive Connections to Rigid Transformations: Shapes on the Plane
- Interactive Connections: Number Lines and the Coordinate Grid
- Interactive Number Chart
- Interactive Open Middle Activities for virtual learning (GEOGEBRA)
- Interpreting Mean (Average) as Equal Sharing
- Introduction to Climate Change
- Introduction to FANBOYS
- Introduction to Geometry: Remote Learning Packet (ABE Level)
- Introduction to Heredity and Traits (Learn.Genetics)
- Investigating Pythagorean Triples
- Investigating Water Use in Your Home
- Jigsaw Reading
- Kate’s Earth Science lessons
- Lake Algae
- Learn.Genetics
- Learning to Think Mathematically with Ratios
- Line of Best Fit
- Linear Bundle (DESMOS activity)
- Lines & Angles
- Lineups
- Lo Shu Magic Square
- Magic Triangle
- Makaila’s Commute Times
- Make It Balance (DESMOS activity)
- Map of Plant Domestication
- Marbleslides (DESMOS activity)
- Mass Incarceration in US: A Slow Reveal Graph Unit
- Match My Parabola (DESMOS activity)
- Math – Test Practice Questions (from the Fast Track GRASP Math Packets)
- Math – TI-30XS Calculator Guides and Practice Exercise
- Math – Will This Be on the Test? (Test Practice Questions and Test Talks)
- Math activities for the first day of school
- Math and the Pandemic Lesson Materials
- Math Monday Handouts
- Math Practice Problems for GED Social Studies and Science
- Math Resources for Spanish HSE
- Math Talks (aka Number Talks)
- Mathematical Language Routines
- Mathematical Modeling: Hot and Cold
- Mathematics Routine Bank
- MathMemos: Zip Zap Zowie
- Matter – Science curricula
- Matter, by the Silversteins (Science Concepts)
- Maxine’s Rule – Graphing Inequalities
- Measles: Eliminated? (ABE/HSE reading/writing lesson plan with a focus on data literacy)
- Measure of Central Tendency Problems (Open Middle)
- Measure of Central Tendency Puzzles
- Measurement Math: Problem-Solving with Increments of a Ruler
- Measures of Central Tendency (and Expanding What it Means to Do Math)
- Mendel’s Monster Factory
- Milestone Cases in Supreme Court History
- Mitosis & DNA – Minnesota Literacy Council
- Mitosis lesson
- Modeling Population Growth: Having Kittens
- More on Teaching the Noah’s Ark problem
- Mouse Population Graphs
- Multiples of 10 (DESMOS activity)
- Multiplication Representation Cards – Icebreaker
- Name Contest
- Name Race
- Name that Rule
- Name, Talent, and Motion
- Name, Throw, and Catch
- Nana’s Paint
- National Geographic Mapmaker
- New Labor Laws for New York’s Workers (essay)
- New York City 2015 Community Health Profiles
- Number Lines and the Coordinate Grid, Part 1
- Number Lines and the Coordinate Grid, Part 2
- Number of the Day
- Number pyramids (DESMOS activity)
- Number Sense Remote Learning Packet (ABE Level)
- Number Strings
- Number Visuals (Prime Factors)
- Numberless Word Problems
- NYSED/CUNY Civics Text Set
- NYSED/CUNY Life Science Text Collection
- Olympic Men’s 100-meter dash
- On Guard: Germs vs. The Immune System
- One-Question Interview
- Online Algebra Balance Scales
- Online Function Machine (from Math Playground)
- Online Function Machine (from the National Library of Visual Manipulatives)
- Online Scientific Calculators (and Apps)
- Organ Function Grinder (video)
- Overlapping Squares
- Paint (DESMOS activity)
- Paired Science Terms: A Science and Grammar Activity
- Parallel Structure (Grammarbytes)
- Partial Product Finder
- Pattern and Function Unit (youcubed.org)
- PBS: Evolution Library
- Penny Circle
- Peppered Moths: Natural Selection in Black and White
- Periodic Table and Bonding (Middle School Chemistry)
- Periodic Table Interactive (Learner.org)
- Persuasive Texts for reading/writing HSE Test Practice
- Phone Plans (EMPower Math)
- Photosynthesis and Respiration – Minnesota Literacy Council
- Pick a Point
- Picture Frame (DESMOS activity)
- Picture This (EMPower Math)
- Plate Tectonic Boundary Types
- Plate Tectonics (Minnesota Literacy Council)
- Plate Tectonics (PhET simulation)
- Point, Point, Slope
- Points on a Plane
- Polygraph: Parabolas
- Pomegraphit! (DESMOS activity)
- Population Density – Five’s a Crowd
- Populations in Balance (SERP Science Generation)
- Powers of 10, short film by Charles and Ray Eames
- Practicing Order of Operations with the Four Fours Problem
- Prediction Guides
- Prime Factor Tiles
- Pro/Con: School Vouchers
- Problem-Solving in Shipping and Warehousing: Packing a Shipping Container
- Product Game and the Factor Game
- Proportional Reasoning, Part 1
- Proportional Reasoning, Part 2
- Psychic Shake
- Push and Support Cards – Working with a Mixed-Level Math Class
- Push and Support Questions for the Commission Problem
- Puzzles of the Week, Vol. 1 (Math for Love)
- Pythagorean Theorem – Open Middle Problems
- Questions and Answers about the GED Exam in New York State
- Quill.org
- Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement
- Radioactive Decay of Carbon-14 (video)
- Reading and Writing to Give Advice: How Does Social Media Affect Youth?
- Reading Math in Text: Hortensia’s Story
- Ready for the Real Thing (Original Book & ESOL Activity Set)
- Real-Life Math in the Workplace
- Representing and Combining Transformations
- Representing the Laws of Arithmetic
- Resource for Looking at Supply and Demand in the context of Gas Price
- Resources for Teaching the Law of Supply and Demand – Hula Hoops
- Resources for Teaching the Law of Supply and Demand – Tulips
- Restaurant Management Math: Menu Pricing with Benchmark Percentages
- Rice and the Chessboard
- Richard Feynman – what he learned from his father about inertia
- Richard Feynman talks
- Rigid Transformations: Shapes on a Plane
- Rose, Thorn, and Bud
- Rumors
- Sampling and Estimating: How Many Jelly Beans?
- Sankaku Puzzles
- Scatterplot Capture: Exploring Scatterplots on Desmos
- Scholastic: Science Explorations
- Science – Description and Sample Items for Earth and Space Science
- Science – Description and Sample Items for Life Science
- Science – Description and Sample Items for Physical Sciences
- Scopes “Monkey Trial” and who gets to say what I know? (SERP Science Generation)
- Secret Codes and the Power of Algebra
- Seeing Dots (Using the structure of an expression)
- Seeing Inside Cells
- Seeing Math in Art: A Colorful Investigation in Probability
- Sentence Combining for Heredity and Genetics
- Sentence Combining for Timeline Texts
- Sentence Starters for Writing about Graphs
- Setting the Periodic Table (SERP Science Generation)
- Short Video on the Semi-Colon
- Short Video to Introduce Sentence Structures
- Sickle Cell Anemia Inheritance
- Sleepytime Scatterplot
- Slow Reveal Graphs
- Slow Reveal Maps (Geography for Justice)
- Small, Smaller, Smallest (SERP Science Generation)
- Social History for Every Classroom
- Social Studies – Regents Test Questions
- Social Studies – Sample Regents Test Questions on Communism in the USSR
- Social Studies – Sample Regents Test Questions on the New Deal and WWII
- Social Studies – U.S. History Regents Questions by Era
- Solar Eclipse 101
- Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Middle School Chemistry)
- Solve Me Mobiles – Solving equations was never this much fun.
- Solving Linear Equations with One Variable
- Sonia Sotomayor Lesson Set
- Spanish versions of several HSE Math Framework handouts
- Spectrum
- SPLAT!
- Stacking Cups – Andrew Stadel version
- Stacking Cups – Dan Meyer version
- Staircases and Steepness (Slope)
- Stand and Talk
- States of Matter infographic
- Strength in Numbers (DESMOS activity)
- Sums of Consecutive Numbers
- Super Tic-Tac-Toe and Coordinate Graphing
- Supply and Demand Graph
- Supply Chains and Supply & Demand (Readings, Visuals, and Exercise)
- Support for Native Language Literacy and Spanish HSE Teachers
- Surface Area of a File Cabinet
- Systems of Equations – Using Student Algorithms to Bridge to Algebraic Thinking
- TABE 11/12: Concepts in Math
- TABE Reading Practice Packet
- Taco Cart – Using Pythagorean Theorem at the beach
- Talking partners
- Tasty Ratios (EMPower Math)
- Taxes, Taxes, Taxes (EMPower Math)
- Teachers’ Guide to the NYSED/CUNY Fast Track GRASP Math Packets
- Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science
- Teaching About Vaccines (Lessons)
- Teaching Persuasive Writing
- Teaching the Framework 1
- Teaching the Framework 2
- Teaching the Framework 3
- Teaching the Framework 4
- Teaching With Picture Prompts
- Teaching with Word Problems
- Technology Tutorials / Workshops for Students
- Tetris Transformations
- The 25 Biggest Turning Points in the Earth’s History
- The Algebra of Patterns
- The Border Problem (on the meaning and use of variables)
- The Brain is Not For Thinking: Memory and Problem-Solving Strategies
- The Cost of Bread and US Minimum Wage
- The Cup is the y-intercept
- The DNA Double Helix Discovery – HHMI BioInteractive Video
- The Duck and The Moon
- The Gold Rush Problem
- The Ice Cream Problem: Math Memo
- The Interactive Body (SciGen)
- The Invasion of America
- The Jigsaw Classroom
- The Labor Mediator
- The Mural Problem
- The NYSED/CUNY CareerKits
- The Paycheck Problem
- The Paycheck Problem (online)
- The Popular Vote and Electoral Vote Maps – Notice and Wonder
- The Power of Exponents, Part 1
- The Power of Exponents, Part 2
- The Product Game
- The Pyramid Scheme Problem
- The Sensational Single Cell
- The Taxi Cab Problem – Modeling in Mathematics
- The Theory of Natural Selection
- The Titanic
- The Ugrabit Problem – Electoral Math
- The United States Census – math and social studies lesson
- The Value of a Name
- Thinking About Natural Selection (SERP Science Generation)
- Three-Act Math Tasks
- Three-Dimensional Geometry, Part 1
- Three-Dimensional Geometry, Part 2
- Timeline of Animal Domestication
- Tools of Algebra: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities, Part 1
- Tools of Algebra: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities, Part 2
- Tools of Algebra: Linear Functions, Part 1
- Tools of Algebra: Linear Functions, Part 2
- Tools of Algebra: Nonlinear Functions, Part 1
- Tools of Algebra: Nonlinear Functions, Part 2
- Towering Numbers
- Traits and Heredity (SERP Science Generation)
- Transformation Golf: Rigid Motion
- Tsunamis
- Turtle Crossing (DESMOS activity)
- Turtle Time Trials (DESMOS activity)
- Twin Puzzles
- Two-Dimensional Geometry, Part 1
- Two-Dimensional Geometry, Part 2
- U.S. Census Data Visualization and Infographics
- Uncovering Coherence Using Area Models (webinar)
- Understanding the Factors of Production
- Unit 1: Introducing Functions
- Unit 2: Three Views of a Function (Rule, Table, Graph)
- Unit 3: Rate of Change and Starting Amount
- Unit 4: Using Systems of Equations to Make and Justify Choices
- Unit 5: Nonlinear Functions
- Unit 6: Exponential Growth
- Unit 7: Mathematical Equality
- Unit 8: Developing Algebraic Reasoning through Visual Patterns
- Unit 9: Using Area Models to Understand Polynomials
- Using a Colon (video)
- Using Google Reviews to Develop Digital Literacy and Argumentative Writing Approaches
- Using Google Slides to pose interactive spectrum questions
- Using Positive and Negative Numbers in Context
- Using Question Stems as a Reading Strategy: Career Narratives in Community and Social Services
- Using Space Efficiently: Packing a Truck
- Virtual Algebra Tiles (National Library of Virtual Manipulatives)
- Virtual Tools for Learning Addition & Subtraction with Integers/Signed Numbers
- Visual Patterns: Using Structure to Rewrite Expressions
- Visual Representations of the Mean of a Data Set (MATHIGON POLYPAD)
- Visualization of Bacteria Evolution
- Vocabulary Builder Extraordinaire
- Vocabulary Learning = Higher Scores
- Volume – Open Middle Problems
- Volume of a Cone Discovery Lesson
- Volume of Rectangular Prisms (Interactive Geogebra activity)
- Volume or Surface Area (Desmos activity)
- Voter Engagement Lessons (ESOL, HSE Math, HSE ELA)
- Voter Resources for Adult Education (COABE)
- Voting, Representation, & Elections – Slow Reveal Graph Collection
- We Speak NYC: Seasons 1, 2 and 3
- Wedding Cake Ribbon
- What Are the Chances?
- What Comes Next? (game)
- What Do You Notice? What Do You Wonder?
- What Every Teacher Should Know About GED Math
- What values are important to you? How can that value help you learn math?
- What’s Going on in This Graph? – Teach About Climate Change
- When will the phone be fully charged?
- Where Does Carbon Dioxide Come From? (video)
- Which cylinder will hold more popcorn?
- Which One Doesn’t Belong?
- Who Was Charles Darwin? by Deborah Hopkinson
- Why are Early Childhood Education Jobs Increasing?
- Will it hit the hoop? (DESMOS activity)
- Word Generation program (WordGen Weekly)
- WordGen Weekly Interdisciplinary Units
- Working with Area & Triangles (DESMOS)
- Working with Visuals in the HSE Classroom (Using Labor Market Briefings from the NYS Department of Labor)
- Write a function defined by an expression in different but equivalent forms…
- Writing About Math – Solving Equations
- Writing Skills Practice – How the First Life Forms Made Earth What it is Today
- X-Ployt-U Workers on Strike!
- Yellow Starbursts
- Yohaku Number Puzzles
- You Pour, I Choose
- YouCubed.org’s Week of Inspirational Maths (1 & 2)
- Zip Zap Boing
