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Curated OER

Measurement and Conversion of Units in a Recipe

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In a cross-curricular measurement and literacy instructional activity, your class will identify and compare cooking measurement instruments. They read a recipe and sequence a set of similar instructions in which the steps have been mixed...
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Curated OER

Cutting Expenses

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore budgeting. In this finance and math lesson, students brainstorm ways in which households could save money. Students view websites that give cost reducing ideas. Students complete an expense comparison chart and use the...
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Curated OER

Let's Plot Points

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Use coordinate grid paper to plot points and identify shapes that are already plotted on the paper by saying their coordinates. Pupils also measure the distance between points and play the game Battleship. There are several web links and...
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Wisconsin Online Resource Center

Oversized Inch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Each member of the class creates their own paper ruler. Using their ruler, kids walk around the room measuring the objects you've specified. Discuss how items should be measured to the 16th of an inch, the smallest unit on their ruler....
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Curated OER

Voter Turnout

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Explore politics by analyzing the voting process. Pupils discuss the purpose of casting votes in an election, then examine graphs based on the data from a previously held election's turnout. The lesson concludes as they answer study...
Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Plan Ahead for Professional Development

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
You can learn something new this fall and winter by attending a conference or seminar.
Activity
Curated OER

Folding strips of paper

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders need concrete experiences to introduce a unit on multiplying fractions by fractions. A strip of paper is used to create a number line and represent 5/6. It is folded first in half, and then in quarters. After unfolding,...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Sugar in Six Cans of Soda

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Understanding how to multiply a whole number by a fraction is the key concept. Young mathematicians create a visual model of this real-world example and find the solution. Extensions are possible for making this an even richer activity....
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Curated OER

Addressing the "I Can't Do Math" Mindset in Your Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Try these tips for helping pupils learn the tools they need to succeed in math.
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Curated OER

Closest to 1/2

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Using a number line, pupils are asked to identify which of four fractions is closest to one half. Includes a single problem that can serve as a practice problem or formative assessment for 3rd or 4th graders learning to partition number...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Buying Gas

For Teachers Pre-K - 7th Standards
A quick problem to test your middle schoolers' knowledge of dividing with decimals. Also a good practice of unit rates, they must compute the cost of one gallon of gas when given the total amount for a fill up. Can be used as a preface...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Computing Volume Progression 2

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Once your geometers know how to apply the formula V = l w h, they will be ready to take on the fractional volume of a fish tank. Have your number crunchers swap heights so they can see that the fractional volume will not change. 
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Curated OER

Find 2/3

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This short problem with representing fractions on a number line is more than meets the eye. Labeled only with the numbers zero and 1/4, a number line is used to locate the fraction 2/3. A solution can be found in multiple ways, but young...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Dimes and Pennies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Help your fourth graders make cents out of fractions and decimals with this short word problem. After learning that dimes are one-tenth and pennies one-hundredth of a dollar, students write a fraction and decimal for a given number...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Base and Height

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
It is easy to find the area of a triangle where the base and the height are given. But in this resource, it is up to your geometers to identify the base and height of the triangle. In fact, your pupils will learn that there are three...
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Baylor College

Food: The Math Link

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Enrich your study of food science with with these math worksheets. They offer a variety of food-related word problems that are great practice for multiplying, identifying fractions, estimating length, and performing calculations...
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Baylor College

Global Atmospheric Change: The Math Link

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Change up the classroom atmosphere with this interdisciplinary resource. Following along with the children's book Mr. Slaptail's Curious Contraption, these math worksheets provide practice with a wide range of topics including...
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Alberta Learning

Equivalent Fractions: Activity Sheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
Provide learners with practice for identifying equivalent fractions. The first worksheet contains 15 problems that instruct pupils to name fractions based on visuals, and to find missing parts to equivalent fractions. In the second...
Assessment
CCSS Math Activities

Building Blocks

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Math is a lot like building blocks—it requires a solid foundation. A short performance task has pupils consider the volume of a cubic block. It then asks mathematicians to find the surface area and volume of a prism made from stacking...
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Concord Consortium

The Bus Route

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Patterns are extremely helpful when solving a puzzle. Young scholars attempt to find times a bus will pass each stop. They identify a pattern in the known stop times to identify the solutions.
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Curated OER

Olympic Decimals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Add competitive event times, expressed in decimals, to determine the winners! Individuals use a chart showing competitors' times in four events to figure each team's total time and individual standing.
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Curated OER

Mark, Recapture, Sampling

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners conduct a simulation to explore how scientists estimate the size of animal populations. They analyze a random sample and then extrapolate those results to a larger population. Additionally, they will apply the principals of...
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Curated OER

As a Matter of Fact

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Elementary-aged scientists discover that all matter has mass. They are shown the difference between mass and weight, and learn how to calculate mass using the appropriate tools and methods. The scientific method is used while estimating...
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Curated OER

Stay Focused on Long Division

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students utilize a checklist in order to help them stay focused on long division problems.

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