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Drop it or not?
Students explore fractions. In this fraction lesson plan, students play an interactive game and use manipulatives to practice working with fractions.
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Review Unit 1: Exponents
What will be on the test? The resource provides comprehensive review items for the content of the unit on exponents. The resource divides the sections in the order you present the lessons during the unit.
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Reduce Simple Fractions
In this reducing simple fractions learning exercise, students reduce twenty four fractions to their simplest forms while showing each step of their work.
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Ten Sly Piranhas: A Counting Story in Reverse
Young scholars solve related addition and subtraction problems. In this addition and subtraction instructional activity, students use the book Ten Sly Piranhas by William Wise as the source of word problems for young scholars to solve.
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Simplifying Fractions
In this algebra worksheet, students simplify fractions using common denominators. They solve using addition and subtraction. There are 6 questions with an answer key.
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Smarties Investigation
In this math learning exercise, students participate in an investigation of Smarties candy. For example, students estimate how many candies they have in each color, count the actual number, and record the information in a tally chart.
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Place Value
First graders practice place value by completing problems that allow them to group 10 items together to create groups of 10 and see what is left over. In this place value lesson plan, 1st graders use cups to put 10 items in them, and...
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Partial Quotients
Fifth graders examine the partial-quotients algorithm for finding the answer to a division problem. In this partial quotients lesson, 5th graders demonstrate the process of division through a series of estimations. Students examine the...
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Pardon Me. Do You Have Change For a Dollar?
Upper elementary and middle school learners explore currencies from a variety of countries. They use the Internet, video, and engage in hands-on activities. They practice converting U.S. currency to foreign currency and vice versa. This...
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Number Systems
Generating a system of shapes. Groups work together to create a number system using three different shapes as symbols. The groups should come up with the rules that generate all the possible permutations of the three shapes.
Noyce Foundation
Sewing
Sew up your unit on operations with decimals using this assessment task. Young mathematicians use given rules to determine the amount of fabric they need to sew a pair of pants. They must also fill in a partially complete bill for...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 7 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 4)
Looking for vocabulary cards to expand your mathematicians' academic language? A set of 19 vocabulary cards focuses on terms dealing with probability, fractions, and decimals. Each sheet has a word card and a definition card.
NASA
Down to Earth
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. The lesson includes four activities in which students learn binary, convert binary to images, understand CCD arrays, and interpret...
Rational Number Project
Rational Number Project: Initial Fraction Ideas
Deepen the fractional number sense of young learners with this introductory lesson on equivalent fractions. After completing a short warm-up activity, children go on to work in pairs using fraction circles to complete a table of...
Noyce Foundation
Ducklings
The class gets their mean and median all in a row with an assessment task that uses a population of ducklings to work with data displays and measures of central tendency. Pupils create a frequency chart and calculate the mean and median....
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School Forest
Sixth graders explore the concept of biodiversity. In this biodiversity lesson, 6th graders discover a variety of planets and animals that live in forests, and how a rotting log benefits that environment. Students also locate seven...
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Counting Money
Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.
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Strong Arm Iteration
Students solve exponential functions and inequalities. In this algebra lesson, students find the roots of equations and use it to graph and evaluate exponential functions. They simplify exponents using the law of exponents.
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Fraction Conversion Lesson Plan
Learners practice converting fractions into decimals and percents using a computer applet and the concept of money.
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Decimal War
Pupils play a math game. In this decimals and fractions lesson plan, they use base ten blocks to practice converting between decimals and fractions. Everyone plays a game called Decimal War to practice these concepts.
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Multiplying Polynomials
Students explore multiplying polynomials. They observe solving polynomials using the standard order of operations, FOIL, and the box method. Throughout the demonstration, students explore strategies of solving word problems such as...
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Which Fraction Am I?
For this fractions worksheet, students solve the clues to come up with the correct fraction. Students solve clues for 6 fraction problems.
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CMOS Logic Gates
In this electrical instructional activity, students answer a series of 27 open-ended questions about logic circuits. They construct a circuit board to help explain logic circuits. This instructional activity is printable and the answers...
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Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting
In this physics worksheet, students analyze and solve gate circuit problems. They solve and write short answers to 22 questions on circuits.