EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 15
What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Math: 3rd Grade: Multiplication in Contexts (Practice)
Math practice exercise on relating multiplication to real-world contexts.
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Usa Today Education: Math Lessons
Implement one of USA TODAY's national aligned math lesson plans into your classroom. Students will enjoy the real world context included in each of the lesson plans.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Patterning the Powers of 10
This interactive Learn Alberta math resource offers a hands-on exploration of positive and negative exponents. In particular, students will work on completing patterns of base 10 exponents in a variety of forms, then look at these in the...
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At Home With Math: Activities for Parents and Kids
These ten math activities encourage parents and their children ages 5-11 to work with math in the context of everyday activities like taking turns, saving money, or getting somewhere on time.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: It's Elemental Element Math Game!
Learn how to read the periodic table of elements as you solve these Math questions about the number of protons, neutrons, electrons or nucleons in an atom of an element. You can choose how many questions to answer, and how complex they...
abcteach
Abcteach: Learning Number Words in Spanish
This ELL vocabulary exercise helps Spanish speaking English learners practice their reading comprehension within the context of number words.
Khan Academy
Khan: Lsn 8: Interpreting Relationships in Scatterplots/graphs/tables/equations
This lesson focuses on Interpreting and analyzing linear, quadratic, and exponential models and graphs. Students will use best fit lines to interpret contexts, distinguish whether contexts are linear or exponential functions, use the...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Olympic Logic
Four sporty brainteasers in the context of fencing, hockey, football and international medal tables. This activity challenges students to be resourceful, to think logically and to work systematically, and is designed to be accessible to...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Angle of Shot
At what angle should you release the shot to break Olympic records? This activity gives students the opportunity to investigate projectile motion in a real-life context, and is aimed at A-level students (grades 10, 11, and 12).
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Light Weights
Could the location of the Olympic host city have an effect on weightlifting events? This activity provides an interesting context in which to engage with weight, mass and gravitation, and is aimed at A-level students (grades 10, 11, and...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Who's the Winner?
If two goals are scored in a hockey match between two equally-matched teams, what are the possible scores? This activity gives an opportunity to investigate probability in the context of sport, and is designed to be accessible to...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: National Flags
During the Olympic and Paralympic Games many national flags will be on display. This activity explores 2D shapes, angles and symmetries in the context of flag designs, and is designed to be accessible to primary pupils at Key Stage 2.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: 10 Olympic Starters
These 10 questions encourage students to explore mathematical modelling in the context of several different sports including track and field athletics, shooting, football, tennis, basketball and gymnastics. This activity is designed to...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Halloween: Addition and Time
On this interactive site students practice with both simple addition and time. At the end of the lesson students will be able to use the term "one minute" to describe time and create and solve simple addition stories in similar contexts.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Jumping
After training hard, Ben and Mia have improved their performance in the long jump and high jump. Can you work out the length and height of their original jumps? This activity explores multiplication, division and fractions in the context...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpret Change in Exponential Models: With Manipulation
Solve problems interpreting change in exponential models with manipulation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpret Change in Exponential Models: Changing Units
Given a function that models an exponential situation, rewrite the function in order to find its change for a different time unit. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System: More Students Apply Early
Using the USA TODAY Infograph, "More students apply early," students will explore scatter plots and independent and dependent variables. Students will determine a best-fit regression model for the real-life data set and then use the...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Quartiles
Explains what quartiles are and some different contexts in which they are used. Includes ten practice questions.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: The Range (Statistics)
Explains the definition of 'range' and what it means in different mathematical contexts. Includes examples and ten practice questions.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.oa Markers in Boxes
The purpose of this task is for students to compare two problems that draw on the same context but represent the two different interpretations of division, namely, the How many groups? interpretation and the How many in each group?...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Formulas: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this lesson plan about formulas, young scholars will be able to identify and apply the correct formula for a given situation, solve for any unknown component of the formulas for perimeter, circumference, and area of regular...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns It's Warmer in Miami
This task has students do simple computations with positive and negative numbers in the context of temperature differences. Aligns with 6.NS.C.5.