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PBS
Pbs Mathline: Tiling the Plaza Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Learners are given pattern blocks and are told to create a tile design for a building to use on the floor. Printable lesson.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Perfect Fit Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Use pattern blocks to explore the shapes that can fit into the given shape.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Perfect Fit Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Use pattern blocks to explore different shapes within a shape.
Cut the Knot
Cut the Knot!: What Is a Number?
Casual and clear but definitely upper-level discussion of rational, real, imaginary, and several other types of numbers. Links to related sites.
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 07: Fruity Counters
Students use pattern block stickers to determine and explore patterns.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Turing Origami
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson briefly introduces students to the idea of the Turing Machine. In this lesson, students evaluate a number string, where each number corresponds to a certain lengthening procedure...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Read Write Count"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Activity allows students to build their critical thinking skills, as well as math concepts and the relationships between reading, writing, and thinking.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generating Different Representations of Relationships
Given problems that include data, the student will generate different representations, such as a table, graph, equation, or verbal description.
TES Global
Tes: Tens and Units Visualizing
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore base ten by bundling ten crayons at a time and then counting groups of ten without counting each individual crayon.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: N Q Giving Raises
A small company wants to give raises to their 5 employees. They have $10,000 available to distribute. Imagine you are in charge of deciding how the raises should be determined. What method would be fair to everyone? Aligns with HSN-Q.A.2.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Multiple Ways to Solve a Problem
This Marilyn Burns lesson plan employs children's literature to teach the topics of combinations, perimeter, and area using a problem solving approach. Primary and intermediate levels have an activity appropriate to each.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Algebra Tiles
Use tiles to represent variables and constants to solve algebra problems. Solve equations, substitute in variable expressions, and expand and factor.
Other
Austin Community College: Mathematical Language
Austin Community College provides a few paragraphs on mathematical language, the importance of learning it, and the importance of using it correctly.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Story Problem Vote
[Free Registration/Login Required] The goal of this lesson is to solve one- and two-step word problems related to appropriate third grade objectives.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Cross Country Race
On this one page website sharpen your logic and problem solving skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Three by Three
Push your problem-solving skills to the limit. Arrange 3 red, 3 blue and 3 yellow counters into a three-by-three square grid, so that there is only one of each color in every row and every column.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Single Track
See if you can figure out how to get two trains on a single track past each other using only a very short siding. Check your results right on this one page websites to see if your answer works.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: 6 Beads
Use the diagram on this one page website to solve the problem. There are teacher notes and the solution is only a click away.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Biscuit Cookie Decorations
Solve this problem keeping in mind that cookies are called biscuits in England. Solution included.