Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 2 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 4)
The 28-page resource contains cards with terms relating to multiplication from inverse operations to front-end estimation to array. Each sheet contains two cards; one with the word and one with the definition.
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Mental Math Strategies
For this mental math worksheet, students read an information box that explains how to use breaking apart or compensation to solve addition or subtraction problems. Students add or subtract using mental math in 8 examples.
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Mental Math Strategies
In this mental math worksheet, students study the detailed instructions and examples for adding or subtracting numbers using "breaking apart" or compensation. Students solve 17 mental math problems.
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Mental Math
For this multiplication worksheet, students use mental math strategies to multiply 2 digit numbers together. Students complete 7 problems.
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Mathematics Within: Algebraic Processes and Its Connections to Geometry
Students analyze multiple strategies of multiplication: clustering, area model, breaking apart/decomposing, etc. They create their own strategies to approaching multiplication problems and share them with their classmates. Discussion...
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Combining and Breaking Apart Numbers
First graders read Imogene's Antlers by David Small the create pipe cleaner antlers. Using these as a tool students combine and create number sentences. They continue to work through the framework of a software program.
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Simplify the Problem as a Strategy
In this simplify the problem as a strategy instructional activity, 4th graders solve two word problems by breaking each one down into a simpler problem first.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Multiplication Using Arrays
Explore the concept of multiplication by using arrays. Classmates use arrays to gain a better understanding of multiplication. They break arrays apart to model the distributive property of multiplication over addition. The relationship...
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Data Scavenger Hunt
Eighth graders discuss how data is collected and participate in data collection through a survey. They complete a scavenger hunt on the Internet to gain understanding of the data measures mean, median, mode, and range.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Adding and Subtracting Three-Digit Numbers by Jumping
Second graders use data to graph information and draw conclusions. In this instructional activity on data analysis, 2nd graders practice gathering, sorting, comparing, and graphing data. Students differentiate data that can and cannot...
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Add & Subtract Fractions w/Unlike Denominators, 2
Young scholars use several examples to create a method for adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. They present these methods to the class and then practice applying methods to sample problems.
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Pythagorean Theorem Investigation
Eighth graders investigate the Pythagorean Theorem and practice applying the theorem to various triangles. Finally, in the next lesson in the sequence, 8th graders create a song or a story to help them remember the Pythagorean Theorem.
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Mitosis and Meiosis Exercise
In this cell division worksheet, students answer 15 multiple choice questions about both mitosis and meiosis. Topics include the outcomes of the processes, the phases of the processes and steps within each process.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Break Apart 3 Digit Addition Problems
Practice breaking apart big addition problems using place value. For example, 234+567 is the same as 200+500+30+60+4+7. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive...
Other
Nearpod: Subtraction With Regrouping: Three Digit
In this lesson on subtraction, students will use the break apart strategy, draw a model, or the standard algorithm to subtract 3-digit numbers.
Other
Nearpod: Subtraction With Regrouping: Two Digit
In this lesson on subtraction, students will use the break apart strategy, draw a model, or the standard algorithm to subtract 2-digit numbers.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Division Strategy: Partition the Dividend [Pdf]
Break numbers apart as a strategy to divide.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Adding 53+17 by Making a Group of 10
Sal adds 53+17 by breaking apart the numbers and making a group of 10. [3:35]