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Problem Solving in British Pounds

For Students 2nd - 4th
Compare the cost of four common food items at the grocery store! The value of these objects is represented in British pounds, but you could cross this off if it's too confusing for your elementary learners. 
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Understanding Proportions and Scale Drawings

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Proportions are ratios found using multiplication or division. Middle schoolers solve measurement problems, find a figure's missing dimension, and find the distance between two points. Resource features four lesson plans with detailed...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Find a Pattern: Practice

For Students 7th
In this tessellation worksheet, 7th graders use patterns to draw tessellations for the given shapes and colors. Students solve five problems.
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North Carolina State University

Exploring Genetics Across the Middle School Science and Math Curricula

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Where is a geneticist's favorite place to swim? A gene pool. Young geneticists complete hands-on activities, experiments, and real-world problem solving throughout the unit. With extra focus on dominant and recessive genes, Punnett...
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US Institute of Peace

Identifying Conflict Styles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Are you a peace-keeper or a problem-solver? Explore conflict management styles through a lesson, fourth in a 15-part series, that combines individual assessment and collaborative work. Groups learn the basic tendencies of each style,...
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Filtration Investigation

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Scholars build a simple filtration system to remove impurities from muddy water and rate the filtered water to a grade of clarity scale. The focus is on teamwork and problem solving. This instructional activity would be effective in your...
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Illuminations

Circumference and Areas of Circles

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Middle and high schoolers listen to a scenario about a puppy and use the scenario to develop formulas in order to find the area of a circle. In this circumference lesson, pupils understand how to find the radius, diameter, area of a...
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Draw a Picture

For Students 4th - 5th
In this problem solving strategies worksheet, students read and analyze the instructions and examples for drawing a picture to solve a math problem. Students solve 1 problem pertaining to students' positions in a line.
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Leveled Problem Solving: A Problem Solving Plan

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving strategies practice instructional activity, learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Problem Solving: Write an Expression

For Students 5th
When practicing problem-solving skills students have to hone their critical thinking. In this worksheet on problem solving, 5th graders have to determine which operation and what strategy to use when answering the word problem. This...
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Solving Equations (Multiplication and Division)

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, after explaining in writing the steps they would take to solve 4+x-2=6 as a warm up, solve multiplication/division equations using manipulative's. They generalize a method to problem solving with coins.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Find a Pattern: Problem Solving

For Students 5th - 6th
For this finding patterns worksheet, students use the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them find the pattern in the swimming distances numbers. Students use the pattern to help them solve the...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Find a Pattern: Problem Solving

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math patterns instructional activity, students use the understand, plan, solve, and look back problem solving strategy to help them find the patterns for the two problems.
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Leveled Problem Solving Equations and Mental Math

For Students 5th - 7th
In this equations and mental math practice instructional activity, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Leveled Problem Solving Solving Addition and Subtraction Equations

For Students 4th - 7th
In this adding and subtracting equations practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Guess and Test/Make a Table

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore problem solving strategies.  In this middle school mathematics lesson plan, students investigate the guess and test and make a table problem solving strategies.  Students work in pairs to apply the problem...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Find a Pattern Using Children's Literature

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders listen to Demi's, On Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale. They use the problem solving strategy of finding a pattern to determine the number of rice Rani will receive after 30 days. They create a spreadsheet which...
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Using Operations

For Students 4th - 5th
In this problem solving worksheet, students read the strategies and steps to solve word problems. Students solve 2 problems about blue whales.
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Problem Solving: Work Backward

For Students 4th
In this problem solving instructional activity, 4th graders solve each of 6 word problems by working backwards. They use the strategy while working with money and decimals.
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Leveled Problem Solving Evaluating Expressions

For Students 5th - 7th
In this evaluating expressions practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems
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Problem Solving: Reasonable Answers

For Students 4th - 7th
For this finding reasonable answers practice worksheet, learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Leveled Problem Solving Subtracting Integers

For Students 6th
In this problem solving worksheet, 6th graders solve 6 word problems after reading the directions on how to subtract an integer by adding its opposite. They work with temperature in the last 5 problems.
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Problem-Solving Application: Use Formulas

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem-solving worksheet, students read and solve 2 word problems involving formulas dealing with a width of a room and the length of a stall.
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Problem-Solving Application: Use Circle Graphs

For Students 5th
In this problem-solving worksheet, 5th graders problem-solve 2 mathematical equations involving 4 key steps and 2 circle graphs.

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