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Telling Time to 5 Minutes
Students take part in various activities ranging from creating a human clock, to small group problem solving to reinforce the concept of telling time accurately to five minutes on an analog clock.
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Fraction Facts
Students are introduced to fractions, including operations with fractionsm converting fractions to decimals and percents. They are provided with activities that provide ample practice opportunities to reinforce the information from the...
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Multiplying Decimals and Mixed Numbers
Students multiply decimals and/or mixed numbers. They explore the effects of multiplying decimals and mixed numbers. They practice estimating answers when a number is multiplied by a decimal or mixed number.
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The Multiplier (2-digit by 2-digit numbers)
Fourth graders Split a 2-digit number into tens and ones. They use The Multiplier to partition and solve 2-digit by 2-digit multiplications. They describe how to solve 2-digit by 2-digit multiplications using a diagram.
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#9: Solving Equations (1 of 2)
Twelve very simple equations are presented for learners to solve. What is the value of x? What is the value of n? Individuals apply operations to find the answers. You will find the final answers by clicking on the appropriate box at the...
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Solving Equations with Two-Stepping! (4 of 4)
Here are 12 two-step algebraic equations to be solved. The first problem is completed as an example to your class, but the remaining can be worked right on the page. An answer key is available by clicking on a small box at the top of the...
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#10: Solving Equations (2 of 2)
In this prealgebra activity, pupils perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division operations to solve for an unknown. There are 12 problems to be solved. Use this as a quiz to assess how well your class is grasping the skill...
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Rounding and Estimating
In this rounding and estimating activity, students solve 18 rounding and estimating problems. Students solve problems without a calculator.
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Comparing Sets
Students count back with cubes to model subtraction problems. In this subtraction lesson plan, students compare sets of problems and record their results in a table.
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Multiplication Lesson Plan
Students roll dice to come up with 1 digit numbers that they multiply together. In this multiplication lesson plan, students arrange piles of blocks and count them to complete problems.
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Spaghetti Measure
Middle schoolers receive a copy of a "Spaghetti Measure" task sheet along with the scoring rubric. Students preview the task and the rubric prior to starting the task. tudeThey determine the circumference of a circle of spaghetti that...
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Save Your Change
Students solve problems involving exponential, logarithmic, and scientific notations. Using calculators, students explore investment problems. They use a formula and logarithms to determine the years to earn a particular income, figure...
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Cutting the Wood
High schoolers demonstrate and describe the effect of multiplying or dividing by a fraction less than or greater than one. They create and explain a variety of equivalent ratios that represent a given situation. Students draw a picture...
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River Width
Students determine the level of accuracy needed for computations involving measurements and irrational numbers. They use the correct number of digits in computation to achieve an appropriate unit or level of accuracy when solving...
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Fuel Saving
Students explore the problem of percentages. Students find a given fraction or percentage of a quantity. Students devise and use problem solving strategies on problems explored.
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Circles and Clocks, Shapes and Time
Students work in groups to research clocks and practice telling time. In this telling time instructional activity, students use the computer program ProQuest to study circles, including radius and diameter, and practice drawing circles...
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Best Guesser
Fifth graders develop strategies for estimating ages, and illustrate results by graphing and interpreting scatter plots to compare x and y coordinates.
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Pythagorean Theorem Investigation
Eighth graders investigate the Pythagorean Theorem and practice applying the theorem to various triangles. Finally, in the next lesson in the sequence, 8th graders create a song or a story to help them remember the Pythagorean Theorem.
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How Cool Is Your Environment?
Students study the formulas for calculating heat energy and how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. They apply the formulas on a worksheet.
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Graph and Compare the Adventure's Temperature Vs. Local Temperature
Learners explore the concept graphing data. In this graphing data lesson, students use weather data from their local weather and some other city and graph them. Learners plot the local weather vs. another city. Students record...
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Investment Plans
Students explore investment plans. They write the explicit and recursive forms of the sequence of an investment and compare the amount to the continuously compounded interest formula for the same time period, interest and principal....
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Let's Take a Trip!
Sixth graders plan trip for family of four, and choose best travel plan by studying maps, considering different routes, and visiting Web sites to get airline and travel schedules.
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Concrete Canoes
Students explore and analyze the relationship of buoyancy and displacement needed to make an object float. They examine various boat designs, then design and build clay and aluminum boats that hold a cargo of marbles.