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Going Graph-y
Second graders listen to and dicuss the story Where the Wild Things Are. They play a pantomime game and act out various feelings so their classmates can guess. They listen for the frequency of certain words, and record their findings on...
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Air: The Math Link
Inflate this unit on the science of air with these math skills practice and word problems. Accompanying the children's story Mr. Slaptail's Secret, this resource covers a wide range of math topics including the four basic operations,...
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Fast Food Survey Using Bar Graphs
Second graders create a bar graph to pictorically represent the data collected from a survey of students. They use Excel to electronically create the graphs and data tallies. They then interpret their data using sentences to explain.
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Usage and Interpretation of Graphs
Cooperative groups are formed for this graphing activity. Each group must construct a graph that represents how many eyelets (the holes for laces in shoes), are present in their group. A whole-class bar graph is eventually constructed...
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Cutting Expenses
Learners explore budgeting. In this finance and math instructional activity, students brainstorm ways in which households could save money. Learners view websites that give cost reducing ideas. Students complete an expense comparison...
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Living Things and Their Needs: The Math Link
Enrich your study of living things with these cross-curricular math activities. Following along with the story Tillena Lou's Day in the Sun, learners will practice addition and subtraction, learn how to measure volume and length, work on...
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Graphing
Students collect data to create different types of graphs-line, pie, and bar graphs. They use StarOffice 6.0 to create graphs.
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Build A Skittles Graph
Students explore graphing. In this graphing lesson, students sort Skittles candies and use the color groups to create a bar graph. Rubrics and extension activities are provided.
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Raising the Bar While Hogging the Ham (Radio, That Is)
Young scholars watch a Cyberchase video to determine the importance of using the correct scale when making bar graphs. They examine how to use bar graphs to gain information easily. They determine how to use bar graphs persuasively.
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Graphing With Candy
Students gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph.
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Bar Charts and Pictographs: How can they help us?
First graders work with manipulatives to solve various math problems by using concrete objects to solve a list of problems . They create and evaluate bar graphs and write a statement about the information on their bar graph.
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Temperature Bar Graph
Learners explore mean, median and mode. In this math lesson, students analyze temperature data and figure the mean, median, and mode of the data. Learners graph the data in a bar graph.
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Apple Logic and Problem Solving
Students examine apple production in the United States. In this interdisciplinary instructional activity, students use problem solving strategies introduced to solve math problems associated with apple production in the United States....
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Play It
There are a number of activities here that look at representing data in different ways. One activity, has young data analysts conduct a class survey regarding a new radio station, summarize a data set, and use central tendencies to...
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Classroom Supplies
Challenge young mathematicians to buy classroom supplies by staying within the means of a $1,000 budget. The mathematical activity provides learners with the opportunity to decide what items from the supply list would benefit a class of...
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Math Review for Grade 2 (2.6)
In this math review for grade 2 (2.6) worksheet, 2nd graders answer 25 multiple choice questions in standardized test format about addition, subtraction and bar graphs.
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The Night Before Christmas Graph
First graders graph their favorite The Night Before Christmas books. In this graphing lesson students listen to several versions of the the same story, The Night Before Christmas. The students each choose their favorite version and the...
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Math: Graphs and Their Symbols
Second graders examine different types of graphs and discover the meanings of the symbols used on them. After gathering data about themselves, their communities, and the world, they use that information to create graphs. Among the...
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Usage and Interpretation of Graphs
Students explore graphing. In this graphing lesson, students predict how many shoe eyelets are present in the classroom. Students count eyelets and work in groups to organize and chart the data collected. Students put all the data...
Illustrative Mathematics
Chocolate Bar Sales
In this real-world example, algebra learners start to get a sense of how to represent the relationship between two variables in different ways. They start by looking at a partial table of values that define a linear relationship. They...
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Wheat Kernels Bar Graph
Third graders create a bar graph to record how many kernels were in a wheat stalk. They write in math journals two questions from interpreting the graph. They solve math problems from other students.
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Sorting and Analyzing
Learners explore sorting and graphing. In this math instructional activity, students create and analyze a class bar graph about their birthday months. They then estimate and sort candies to make and analyze their own bar graph.
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Conversation Heart Graphing
Sixth graders review the different types of graphs (bar, line, pictograph) They predict the data set they can garner several boxes of conversation hearts. Students record their data using an Excel spreadsheet. They create a graph based...
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Food for Class Party
In this interpreting a bar graph and math word problems worksheet, 2nd graders read the information about choices of food for a class party and answer various multiple choice questions. Students solve 25 problems.