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Tracking the Salt Front
Students manipulate Hudson River salt front data from October 2004 -
September 2005 to locate the high and low points of the salt front for each month, They determine the range for each month, determine the modal range for each month,...
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Practicing Arithmetic
Students practice single operation arithmetic ranging from single digit addition to long division of decimals or real numbers using Graphit. They use data sets and rules to graph ordered pairs.
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Whistle Mixer
Students engage in an easy way to practice addition and subtraction skills while moving in different ways.
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M&M: Multiplication Madness
Students analyze the multiplication facts from zero to ten in the ten lessons of this unit. The concepts of mental multiplication and solving word problems are important components of this unit.
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Regrouping With Remediation
Fourth graders complete multiplication, addition, and subtraction problems that all contain regrouping. In this regrouping lesson plan, 4th graders complete worksheets not provided.
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Unexpected Answers
Students explore and complete a variety of activities demonstration probability. They make observations about the results of the activities. Students complete and discuss conditional probability. Also, students draw conclusions about...
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Calculating Your Travel GHGs
Students calculate the amount of greenhouse gases they produce in a given day. Using an equation, they determine the emissions for different sized vehicles and calculate the amount resulting from a family vacation. They create a class...
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Weather for Health
Ninth graders encounter various types of numerical information (represented in multiple ways), much of which is abstract and difficult to comprehend. In this lesson, 9th graders will convert given information into bar graphs. In the...
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Turn off your Engines!
Learners explore how idling vehicles contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. They conduct a survey of idling in their community. Students calculate and develop corresponding graphs of the carbon dioxide produced...
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Investigating the properties of a circle
Students use wax paper to look at different properties of circles such as chords, tangent lines, inscribed angles, and inscribed angles in a semi-circle, as well as finding the center of the circle, and use GSP to investigate cyclic...
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Who Would Have Figured?
Students investigate what happens when a coin is tossed a few times versus many times. They analyze, in groups, the data from tossing coins, and the Law of Large Numbers.
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OUT OF THIS WORLD AND INTO OUR CLASSROOM
Students create projects on Astronomy using math concepts and use of Internet resources.
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Water Quality Data Analysis
Students develop a process for analyzing collected bayou data.
They find the mathematical relationships among various biological factors.
Students, work collaboratively using technology in their data analysis.
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MOBILITY, Traveling Lightly: What’s My Footprint?
Students calculate their carbon footprint. In this environmental technology lesson, students listen to a lecture on climate change. Students brainstorm solutions to reduce environmental impact based on travel options. Students calculate...
Queen's Printer for Ontario
E workshop.on.ca: Effective Instr'n in Math, K 6: Multidigit Computation [Pdf]
Volume 5 in an eworkshop Guide to Effective Instruction in Math outlines and illustrates instructional strategies for teach basic facts and multidigit computation to students in kindergarten through grade 6.
Purple Math
Purplemath: How Do I Compute My Grade?
Demonstrates how to figure out what you need on the Final to pass your course, given a typical grading scheme.
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year Five Math (Page 2)
Use this interactive worksheet for practice or assessment of basic computation skills. Problems covering all four operations are included such as four-digit addition and subtraction and multiplication and division facts through twelve...
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: The Multiplication Table
This multiplication table has multiplication facts through 9 X 9 and also lets students practice them.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: The Meaning of Decimals
This website from The Math Page explains and defines decimals.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Basic Statistics & Probability: Basic Probability
The mathematics resource investigates basic probability. Students learn about the topic through notes and examples. The tutorial consists of practice exercises to check for comprehension of the concept.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Number and Operation Sense: Whole Numbers
In this activity, students attain a basic understanding of numbers and number operations, developing number sense, and gaining fluency in arithmetic computation. They also learn to use the calculator to explore the mathematical...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mad Minutes
This activity should help kids to perform quick computations using mental math, become less reliant on calculators for computation, and remember algorithms for common math problems by using repetition and practice.
Other
Mathematics Computation
This site gives you math worksheets to save the teacher time and keep the students learning.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Ntcm: Math Challenge: Perplexing Percentages
Test your bargin shopping skills by figuring out which discount offers the greatest savings. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series that focuses on understanding and calculating percentages. Connections...