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BREAD IN A BAG

For Teachers 4th - 5th
If possible, acquire a handful of wheat kernels from a local farmer or seed dealer. Hand them out so students can feel them and see what they look like. Share background information. 2. Draw a wheat kernel on the chalkboard, or use the...
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Adding Integers

For Students 5th - 6th
In this integer learning exercise, learners solve 12 problems, adding integers. Answers and hints are available on-line; a reference web site for additional resources is given.
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Lemonade Stand: Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners run their own lemonade stand and are to figure out what to sell the lemonade at to gain the maximum profit.
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Eighteen Matrix Operations Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
In this matrix operations worksheet, students use matrix operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying) to simplify eighteen matrices, if possible.  Solutions are provided.
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3 Digit Addition with Regrouping

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students solve 20 problems in which 3 digit numbers are added with regrouping. There are no examples on the page.
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Joe, Joe, How Does It Go?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this operations worksheet, students fill in the operations for the number sentences. Students fill in operations for 4 number sentences.
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Proportional Problems 1

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore representing fractions as ratios and proportions. They model proportions through the use of blocks, LEGO gears and activities with bicycle gears and pedals. Students work with bicycle gear boxes to observe and...
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How Tall Is It?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify how tall a tree is. In this measurement instructional activity, students use "luminometers" to measure a tree and complete a data sheet.
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Integer Word Problems

For Students 9th
In this integers worksheet, 9th graders solve 5 different word problems that include integers. First, they determine the integers that would solve each of the given problems. Then, students determine two consecutive odd integers whose...
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Addition Strategies: Compensation

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this math worksheet, students learn the addition strategy of compensation: adding an easy number like 10, 20 or 30 and then subtracting a very small number like 1 or 2. Students solve 12 problems on the page.
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Shopping Spree

For Teachers 6th
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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Understanding number to 100

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research equivalent representations of numbers using the base 10 system. In this Base 10 lesson, students examine place value, representations of numbers, and multiples of one, ten, and one-hundred.
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It Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners understand and reinforce how numbers are assigned to objects, as well as think about more, less, or equal values. In this lesson, students are asked to describe, compare, and classify plants. They should be able to use numbers...
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Decimals With A Total of 10

For Students 4th - 5th
In this decimal activity, students subtract decimal numbers from 10, determine what needs to be added to a given decimal to make 10, decrease numbers by given amounts and determine "how many more" to add.
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Math Mania

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders review adding, subtracting, multiplication and division of fractions and decimals through a variety of activities and exercises.
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Mathematical Properties for Addition

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this math worksheet, students read about and learn the properties of addition. Students study the commutative, associative, identity and inverse properties. There are no problems on this page for students to solve.
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Calculating Cats

For Teachers 1st
First graders are introduced to calculators. They complete a variety of math problems using calculators and identify basic parts on a calculator.
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Smart Doubling

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use mental math in calculations involving addition and subtraction. They study doubles facts to work out addition problems mentally using part and or whole reasoning.
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Unifying Unlike Denominators

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars play roll of fictional radio disk jockeys. They allocate their daily program time into fractional time slots for the playing of specified catagories of music and commercial advertisements.
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Body Part Measurements

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a review of how to use rulers and yard sticks while collecting measurement information. They measure assigned body parts and chart the data on collection sheets. They make a spreadsheet with the information...
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Finding the Salt Front

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discuss definitions of estuary, salinity, and the salt front. They listen as the teacher explains the Hudson River Miles and ways the upriver and downriver sections relate to the north and south. Students graph the salt front...
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Dividing Fractions

For Students 5th - 6th
In this dividing fractions worksheet, students review the steps for dividing fractions, reducing the answer or converting to a mixed number, then solve 11 problems.
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Subtraction Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this math skills worksheet, students subtract the given equations and write the answer in the provided space. Students then check their answers by adding the numbers.
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Additive Inverses

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils investigate properties of additive inverses.  In this properties of additive inverses lesson, students discuss the what it means for two numbers to be opposites.  Pupils discuss representing opposite numbers using a...