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Pizza Fractions
Students investigate relationships among fractions and use cut out pizzas and fraction circles to compare equivalent fractions. They exchange fractional parts of construction paper pizza circles to use as many different fractional parts...
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Beat the Wheel
Students recall basic multiplication facts by writing answers on a wheel form, competing against other teams to finish the wheels. They review multiplication facts on a Spinning Wheels Web Lesson.
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Staff Kids
Students participate in a group game to help them identify notes on both staves by using words.
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What's a Per-"cent"?
Students recognize the mathematical connections between fractions and percents. They develop and study graphs to make connections between their data and what it represents. They write about the connections they have discovered.
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Percentages: Calculating Percent-1
In this percentages worksheet, learners calculate percentages in eighteen problem solving percentage equations. Students show each step of their work.
Helping with Math
Ratio and Proportion: Simplifying Ratios (1 of 2)
Here is a set of 24 pairs of numbers for which kids reduce the ratios to their simplest form. It is a simple and straightforward assignment, meant by the publisher to address CCSS.Math.Content.6.RP.3. Note, however, that it only requires...
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Zeros and Blackbirds
Fifth graders convert kilometers to miles and calculate the range that historical aircraft can travel. They choose destinations by distance that can be traveled without refueling.
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Estimating Large Numbers
Learners experience large numbers by estimating the number of grass blades in a field. They work in small groups to determine numbers of blades of grass in a small area of a field and apply that to determining the total number of blades...
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Snowshoe Tag Games
Young scholars play a new version of tag on snowshoes. Students are able to discover advantages and disadvantages of wearing snowshoes based on their performance in the game of tag.
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Design an Apartment
Students are given the task of designing an apartment. In groups, they practice estimating the area and perimeter of different shapes. After designing their space, they apply the same formulas to solving real-world story problems.
Curated OER
Percentages: Fractions To Percent
In this percentages instructional activity, students write eighteen fractions as percentages. Students problem solve each fraction as a percentage.
PBS
Pbs: Dividing a Whole Number by a Unit Fraction
Explore division by modeling problems and grouping with manipulatives. This video focuses on dividing whole numbers by unit fractions and modeling the problems with unit blocks.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Math and Language Arts Lesson: Division
The lesson will help students develop an initial understanding of division and clarify how the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division relate to and are separate from each other. The lesson begins with a...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Basic Division With Remainders
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart goes through discussing the meaning of a remainder, to practicing simple one-step division using manipulatives. Practice problems are included for modeling and student demonstration. It...
PBS
Pbs: Area Model for Division
Visualize solutions to multi-digit division problems by modeling them with virtual manipulatives. This interactive exercise focuses on calculating quotients by working with area models and visualizing the distributive property of division.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Simple Fractions
This S.O.S. tutorial gives students a basic review of simple fractions. Follow the tutorial to refresh your skills involving simple fraction manipulations. Each section contains problems with links to the answers.