Mathematics Vision Project
Circles: A Geometric Perspective
Circles are the foundation of many geometric concepts and extensions - a point that is thoroughly driven home in this extensive unit. Fundamental properties of circles are investigated (including sector area, angle measure, and...
California Academy of Science
California's Climate
The United States is a large country with many different climates. Graph and analyze temperature and rainfall data for Sacramento and Washington DC as you teach your class about the characteristics of Mediterranean climates. Discuss the...
Teach Engineering
Bone Mineral Density Math and Beer's Law
Hop into a resource on Beer's Law. A PowerPoint presentation introduces Beer's law as part of calculating bone density from X-ray images in the sixth lesson plan in the series of seven. Individuals work on practice problems with this law...
Math Centre UK
Fractions—Basic Ideas
What are fractions? Find out using a reference page and video that goes in depth on how to make fractions equivalent, write fractions in simplest form, convert improper fractions into mixed numbers, and vice versa. Following...
Lied Center of Kansas
The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare
Both The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare are great additions to an elementary language arts lesson. Young readers focus on the literary elements of each story, including characters and plot development, and apply...
California Education Partners
Lashelles Garden
Let knowledge grow bountifully like plants in a garden. Given a diagram of a rectangular garden split into plots, scholars determine the area of the entire garden and the areas of the individual plots. As a culminating activity, they...
Illustrative Mathematics
Shrinking
Is Aunt Nancy shrinking? Find out by calculating with the average height women lose each year. The activity practices multiplying and dividing with decimals and rounding the final answer.
Curated OER
Math Review (Preparing for CST)
Learners integrate Math and Music to practice the concept of adding and subtracting decimals. In this math review instructional activity, students explore music as a way to build math skills. Learners listen to the "Decimal Song" and...
Curated OER
Transformations
Learners identify the types of transformations in their lives. As a class, they determine the ones they have control over and which ones they do not. They practice solving problems in math and oral communication that they are faced with...
Curated OER
First Day of Class
Students create birthday bar graphs, read books, make math windows, and more for the first day of math class. In this first day of class lesson plan, students also create pyramids.
Curated OER
R & R - Incorporating Literature While Teaching Math - Ordered Pairs - "The Polar Express"
Third graders create pictures using ordered pairs after listening to a piece of literature. In this ordered pairs and literature lesson, student listen to and discuss The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. They participate in...
Curated OER
Food for Thought
In this food facts worksheet, 4th graders read and interpret a short history on tin cans, Wonder Bread, ToastMaster, Nicolas Appert and Charles Strite. Students answer five word problems.
Curated OER
Thanksgiving For Preschool
Students read books, make turkey hands, eat gingerbread cookies, and more to learn about Thanksgiving. In this Thanksgiving lesson plan, students also write what they are thankful for.
Curated OER
Punxsetawney Phil
Students read books, learn about the letter g, and complete coloring pages all to learn about Groundhog Day. In this Groundhog Day lesson plan, students also sing songs, and discuss the history of Punxsetawney Phil.
Curated OER
Rocket Math
Students practice completing number sentences. They cut out shapes of rockets and place a number on them. They work together to identify the numbers.
Curated OER
Choose the Operation and Method
In this math operations and methods activity, students read 3 word problems, choose the best math operations and method for each one, solve the word problem and explain how they reached each of their answers.
Curated OER
Multiplication Vacation: The Colosseum
In this multiplication worksheet, students find the products and use them as color codes to color the picture of the Colosseum and then read facts about it. Students solve thirteen multiplication problems.
Curated OER
Word Problems: Money
In this counting coins to solve word problems activity, students read the quantity of coins each person has, draw the coins, and total the amounts. Students solve 6 problems.
Curated OER
Interpreting a Pictogram
In this pictogram worksheet, learners read and analyze a pictogram about dogs, hedgehogs, birds and butterflies and then answer 6 short answer questions. Students conduct a similar survey on pets owned by their friends and put their...
Curated OER
Revise Subtraction: True or False?
For this subtraction worksheet, students read and determine if 14 addition and subtraction math problems are true or false as written.
Curated OER
True or False?
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, students read, study and determine if 14 addition and subtraction problems or number sentences are true or false.
Curated OER
Write Larger Numbers in Words or Figures
In this write larger numbers in words or figures worksheet, students read and write numbers to one hundred millionth place value. In this short answer worksheet, students write answers to twenty problems.
Curated OER
What is SI?
In this SI units worksheet, students read about the System International of measurement and answer questions about given measurements. They indicate if given measurements are equal and they convert from one unit of measurement to another.
Curated OER
Ordering Fractions
In this ordering fractions learning exercise, students learn to write fractions that have unlike denominators in order. Students read the instructions and study the examples. Students solve 4 problems in which a series of fractions are...