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Fraction and Decimal Review Podcast
Students create podcasts of information for reviewing fractions and decimals in this math-based creative project. The lesson uses GarageBand, iTunes, iTalk, and Keynote to accomplish tasks.
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Math: Navigating the World Around Me
Young mathematicians research and discuss real world math word problems and ways in which they apply math concepts in their everyday lives. They create a storyboard of a math word problem from which they create a slide for a multi-media...
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The Math Of African Music
Students practice rhythms and fractions on African drums in this Music instructional activity mixing Math skills and music notation. The instructional activity also includes ideas for assessment and state and national benchmarks met.
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Australian food
Use ratio and proportions to adjust recipe size. Middle schoolers investigate Australian food and adjust the recipe size for said foods according to the given situation. They then prepare Australian foods.
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What's Left?
Students work together to choose a favorite food that can be divided. Using construction paper, they draw a picture of the food and take turns erasing it to determine how much of it is left. They must include all equations, fractions and...
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Majority Rules
Pupils practice the voting process by taking a group vote using fractions or percents. In this voting process lesson, students review the voting process and vote using hands or a private ballot. Pupils tally the responses to the vote and...
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When Are We Ever Going To Use This?
Students explore the relationships between fractions, decimals, and percents in a real-world context. They examine examples of percents from magazines and newspapers, and create posters that depict the use of percents in articles and...
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Fashion Sense and Dollar Wise
Students work in groups to show understanding of the relationship between fractions, decimals, percentages, and the application of ratios and proportions. In this decimals, fractions, and percents lesson, students use real life consumer...
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Geometrically Artistic/Artistically Geomtric
Students identify the two-dimensional geometric shapes Lowrey utilized in the painting Untitled. Students compare the two-dimensional shapes in terms of equivalent fractions, congruency, symmetry and asymmetry. Students create their own...
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Discovering Dewey's Decimal System
Students discover the Dewey Decimal System. In this fractions lesson plan, students utilize education software to discover how the Dewey Decimal System works. Students create a PowerPoint presentation in groups or a informational...
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Algebra, Multiplication, and Division of Fractions
Students gain knowledge by measuring time and distance for solving unknowns in an equation. They also will design an airplane and chance to communicate mathematically by writing essays.
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Marvelous Mathematics
Students make a table on the computer, but create fractions and equivalent fractions through the use of color. They are able to manipulate fractions in order to gain a greater understanding of the meaning of whole number that is broken...
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Gingerbread Houses
Learners use their knowledge of fractions and ratios to build gingerbread houses. In this fractions and ratios lesson plan, students use graham crackers, milk cartons, icing, and more.
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Fraction Conversions
Students convert between fractions, decimals, and percents using money. In this conversions lesson plan, students play with a mock store in class.
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Fraction Earth -- Water and Land
Students research the amount and sources of water on Earth. They interpret data to create a physical representation of water and land mass on the planet. They then use art materials to create a visual and tactile representation of...
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Noise Levels, Bar Graphing, and Fractions
Students research items that can damage hearing. They explore statistics about the decibels of certain objects. From the information collected, students create a bar graph. They formulate ratios to determine what sounds are harmful to...
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Rock, Paper, Scissors to One Whole
Students explore fractions by participating in a chance game. In this denominators lesson, students collaborate with a partner to record the outcome of several games of rock, scissors, paper. Students translate the results of the games...
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Counting Books
Students create counting books. In this counting book lesson, students make their own book which counts on each page and has a corresponding picture. These books can count by 1's, 2's, 5's, or even fractions.
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Jelly Bean Egg Challenge
Students each receive a plastic egg filled with jelly beans. In this Jelly Bean Egg Challenge, students estimate and weight their eggs, they count the number of jelly beans inside their egg, they chart their data and compare their data...
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Fraction Conversion Bingo
Pupils reinforce previous math lessons involving the relationships between fractions, decimals and percents.
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Trash Pizza
Students identify items commonly sent to landfills and summarize percentages/fractions of different items in landfills Students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components
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And Around We Go!
Sixth graders conduct a survey and collect data to construct a bar graph that will then be changed into a circle graph. With the bar graph, 6th graders compare estimated fractions and percentages and estimate percentages. With the circle...
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Fraction Strips on Excel
Sixth graders create three different sets of fraction strips using Excel by following a packet of instructions that taper off as the students gain confidence in their knowledge of Excel. They copy and paste the strips into Word so that...
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Ornithology and Real World Science
Double click that mouse because you just found an amazing lesson! This cross-curricular Ornithology lesson incorporates literature, writing, reading informational text, data collection, scientific inquiry, Internet research, art, and...
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