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Your class will participate in a series of math vocabulary activities to learn about parallel lines. They find people using a math list and connect math words in the context of sentences. They also read the math words in the example stories.
This number sense and operations study guide provides notes and explanations as well as practice problems. In order to practice their math skills, learners write fractions as decimals, identify which number set a number belongs to, take square roots, and change decimals into rational numbers. This could be used as stand-alone instructional activity and notes or as a tool to build a test around.
Get an interdisciplinary edge. Scholars study air contamination and slope. They record the time it takes for air fresheners to reach them at variable distances. They document their times, classify them by distance, and draw a scatter plot to represent the mean figures of their data. Great lesson!
Students complete a math activity. In this counting lesson, students read a counting book and complete an activity using M&M's where they practice estimating, sorting, graphing and adding.
Middle schoolers add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers. They find the square and the cube of numbers. They create a game incorporating computation on rational numbers. Everyone works together to write and evaluate expressions. Note: the associate video is only available via purchase, but the other activities hold enough value to support the lesson without it.
Rise and shine, mathematicians! These warm-ups will get your class putting on their thinking caps first thing as they recall past concepts and continue practicing newer ones. The problems are segmented and include concepts such as number patterns, subtracting and reducing fractions, adding money amounts, writing word problems, and basic math operations. There are two pages here; have scholars do an entire page as a warm-up or split them up into a few days. Each page has five separate problems.
Math whizzes identify and explore congruent, non-congruent, and similar figures through use of a geoboard. Then, they investigate and describe the results of combining and subdividing shapes using tangrams and pentominoes and identify a line of symmetry and draw a symmetric picture. Finally, pupils use toothpicks and clay to identify, compare, and analyze properties of three-dimensional geometric shapes.
Explore math concepts as they relate to real world situations. Young analysts consider a personal hobby or favorite sport and list three ways math is involved in the hobby. They create several related math story problems and write a paragraph summarizing their thoughts.
Strengthen your scholars' use of academic vocabulary with a review of math terms such as addend, sum, minuend, difference, greater than, etc. Practice using the symbols and language for comparing numbers. Finally, they cut out pictures from magazines, glue them onto paper, line them up in a row, and practice identifying and describing location and sequence using ordinal numbers.
Get your bright-eyed mathematicians thinking first thing in the morning using this set of morning math problems. There are 20 warm-ups here with concepts including number patterns, solving for a variable, greater than/less than, prime numbers, square root, greatest common factor, place value, order of operations, and multiplication. These aren't numbered, so if you want kids to do them one at a time, consider numbering together before they begin.