Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students perform basic operations in modular (clock) arithmetic. Students encode and decode messages using shift and affine ciphers. Students apply their multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction skills.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fly Away With Averages

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discover the process of finding the mean, median, and mode. Through guided practice and problem solving activities, they use a computer program to input data and create a graph. Graph data is used to calculate the mean,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Choices

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students determine that limited resources require choices. They study the basic concept of a budget and use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and/or percents, mixed numbers) to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pokemon Are Smart and Healthy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students play a dodge-ball type game (with bean bags) as they perform a number of mental math and physical challenges.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Construction Work" Art Activity

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore architectural styles and define architectural terms. They construct a building using various architectural elements, and display their buildings, identifying each of the architectural components they used.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dribbling Math Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice foot dribbling and hand dribbling with control. In addition it helps to reinforce math concepts.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Which Chocolate Is The Biggest?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners investigate the concepts of area and perimeter with the use of chocolate bars. They calculate the perimeter and area of different size rectangle chocolate bars and record the statistics. Then students make a visual comparison...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coal Mine Industrial Picture Analysis

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students observe coal mine pictures. For this US history lesson, students analyze the pictures realizing that history is shown in pictures and then write a newspaper article about life in a coal town using the pictures as...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Area of Complex Figures

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use formulas for calculating areas of squares and rectangles to find area of complex figure, compare their own ideas with their classmates' ideas, and recognize that there are multiple methods for finding area of complex...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pyrotechnics

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discuss pyrotechnics and what they have noticed about their height and speed. They think about the path which fireworks follow which is a parabola. They follow multiplication patterns to determine the Zero Product Property and...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Nursery Rhyme Word Problems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson students will create basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems using common nursery rhymes. Students will distinguish the key elements of word problems and incorporate those elements into a...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Story Problems With Mixed Practice

For Students 3rd - 8th
Your problem-solving skills are put to the test in this interactive word problem game on this site. Employ a variety of mathematical skills and strategies including logical reasoning and computation. Multiple choice problems created for...
Activity
Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Dividing Decimals

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website from The Math Page explains and defines how to divide decimals. There is even a practice section at the very end of the lesson.
Website
Learning Wave Communications

Learning Wave: Decimals

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This resource contains several links that lead to discussions on several topics of decimals, including converting and comparing with fractions, rounding, estimating, and basic operations. Each page includes examples and some sample...
Activity
Other

Basket Math: Division Practice

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this interactive site to practice division problems.
Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Division by 4, 5, and 6

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site explains the basic facts for division by 4, 5, and 6. It also provides problems and games to practice this skill. CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.C.7 Fluently multiply and divide within 100
Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Division by 1 Through 9

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site gives practice problems for division by 1-9 and games to use this skill. The information is very brief, but factual, and worth checking out for helpful tools on the subject. CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.C.7 Fluently multiply and...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Division Facts Matching

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this website to practice division facts using a matching game format.
Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Division by 7, 8, and 9

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site explains the basic facts for division by 7, 8, and 9. Gives problems and games to practice this skill, and the information is worth a look. CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.C.7 Fluently multiply and divide within 100
Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Division by 10, 11, and 12

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explains the basic facts for division by 10, 11, and 12. Gives problems and games to practice this skill.
Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Long Division: Dividing a 4 Digit by 2 Digit Numbers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site explains how to divide whole numbers, then offers problems and games to practice this skill.
Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Division by 1 Through 12

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site gives practice problems for division by 1-12 and games to use this skill. The information is brief, but helpful and worth a look.
Activity
Other

Basket Math: Decimal Division Practice

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice problems in which you divide with decimals and see how accurate you are.
Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Inverse Relationship: Multiplication & Division

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site explains the inverse relationship of division with multiplication. Gives problems and games to practice this skill in a fun and helpful way.