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Twisted Tangrams
Primary geometers create a picture using tangrams. In this geometry lesson, students read Grandfather Tang: A Tale Told with Tangrams, cut out their own tangrams, and choose a character from the story to make using their tangram pieces.
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Growing Minds: Cucumber Exploration
After reading a picture book about planting and harvesting cucumbers, learners get a chance to examine some cucumbers of their own. First, they see photographs of a cucumber on a vine, and learn that it is part of the gourd family. They...
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Recognize Area Word Problems - Guided Lesson
Approach geometry concepts with youngsters using visual guides like this one to find area. They draw a rectangle, segmenting it into rows and columns. Scholars determine how many square units they see in the partitioned rectangle. They...
Math Worksheets Land
Partition Circles and Rectangles - Independent Practice Worksheet
What fraction is filled in? Scholars examine five shapes, divided into equal sections. They determine what fraction is filled and select the corresponding numeral fraction from a set of four choices. If your learners haven't begun...
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Partition Circles and Rectangles - Matching Worksheet
What are these familiar shapes divided into? Practice with segmented shapes. Pupils examine five shapes, each broken into two, three, or four equal parts. They connect the shape with one of the five answers: thirds, 1/4, halves,...
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Partitioning Circles and Rectangles - Matching Worksheet
This geometry idea is simple enough, but you'll need to note the typos in the directions. Learners match quarters and halves on the right to their whole shapes on the left. The shapes on the left are divided to make this concept easier...
Curated OER
Math Flash: Fractions II Blue
In this beginning fractions PowerPoint, students determine how many fractional pieces are in a "whole" given a divided circle model. Contrasting colors and clear labeling on each slide provide an excellent visual representation of...
Curated OER
Pizza for Everyone
Pizza is the inspiration for the cross-curricular lesson detailed here. Start out with a poem about pizza and move into a discussion about balanced eating. To close the language arts portion of the lesson, ask your pupils to write...
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Halves, Thirds, and Quarters - Exploring Fractions
Fractions can be difficult to understand. In this introduction to fractions activity, students determine meaning, identify terms, and problem solve fractions. Fraction fiends solve eight problems. An excellent resource!
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A Field of Beans
Beans, or legumes as they are sometimes called, are the topic for an integrated multi-subject lesson. Youngsters will read, write, observe, and research everything there is to know about beans. They read a bean story, conduct a bean...
T. Smith Publishing
Fraction Manipulatives
Photocopy these coloful disks onto cardstock, laminate, and then cut out to use as manipulatives when teaching your class about wholes, halves, thirds, and fourths. It is always so helpful to practice math concepts with hands-on...
Curated OER
The Beet Goes On
Root vegetables inspire the series of activities included here. Class members participate in activities related to language arts, social studies, science, visual art, and math. At first, the long list might feel overwhelming; however,...
Curated OER
Little Red Hen
Pupils listen to a teacher reading of The Little Red Hen, identify the story elements and sequence them. They talk about different jobs associated with providing food and act out a play based on the story. Be aware that although several...
Curated OER
Teaching Fractions-Thirds
If you have The Hershey Chocolate Candy Bar book, reading it makes an alluring anticipatory activity for a lesson on fractions. Learners use paper cutouts to consider the concept of thirds. The lesson concludes with a Bingo-style...
Curated OER
Fraction Manipulatives
In these fraction worksheets, 5th graders use the fraction manipulatives to help them learn and visualize fractions. Students then solve 5 fraction problems.