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Let's Go Consumer Shopping
Second graders rotate through various centers designed to practice consumer math skills. They complete a task card at stations simulating consumer transactions that would take place at toy store, grocery store, restaurant or school store.
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Using Basic Operations in Word Problems
Young scholars review basic operations and use them to solve word problems. In this word problems lesson, students review basic mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Young scholars then...
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Multiplying and Dividing Integers/Relay Race
Give your class a list of multiplication and division sentences that contain both positive and negative integers. Have them analyze them to see if they can discover the pattern with the signs. From these patterns, help them develop the...
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Eating on a Budget
Students are "given" $25.00 to spend at a restaurant. Using the Internet, they must "order" a complete 4 course meal while staying within their budget.
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Shopping Spree
Sixth graders examine currency by completing monetary equations. In this economics lesson, 6th graders participate in a numbers experiment where they roll a die and earn money based on their roll. Students compete for their...
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Sixth graders use estimates and work on strategies for adding and subtracting decimals.
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Better Lesson: Adding, Subtracting, and Understanding Decimals
Students learn how to properly add and subtract decimal quantities.
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Better Lesson: Quiz: Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, & Dividing Decimals
Assess progress in calculating with decimals.
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Better Lesson: Solving Real World Problems Involving Decimals
Sixth graders will be able to solve problems involving adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing multi-digit decimal quantities.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting With Decimals
Sixth graders fluently add and subtract money with decimals using the standard algorithm.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fraction Facts
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to introduce middle schoolers to the basics of fractions including fraction operations and converting fractions both to decimals and percents. NCTM Standards are listed for this...