The commutative property of multiplication applies not only to whole numbers but to fractions as well. Connor and Makayla explore and discuss the idea that 2/3 x 3 is the same as 3 x 2/3. Your 5th grade class will connect with...

Learners explore linear functions concretely using tables of values in a cooperative task. The concept of the values of linear functions changing by equal differences over equal intervals of one is emphasized. Learners will discover...

Can survival rates on the Titanic be explained by the "women and children first" policy or did rescue procedures favor the wealthy? Use actual historical data to explore conditional probability and independent events with your class....

Pupils work several real-world problems that use percents in the 11th portion of a 20-part series. The problems contain percents involved with taxes, commissions, discounts, tips, fees, and interest. Scholars use the equations formed for...

Make your own number line ... using a compass. The first installment of a 21-part series has scholars investigate positive and negative integers on a number line by using a compass to construct points that are the same distance from zero...

Did the rescue procedures on the Titanic favor the first-class passengers?  Use actual historical data to explore independent and dependent events with your class. Part of a series of worksheets, but can be used separately.

This model of the amount of anibiotics in a person's system is represented abstractly by a finite geometric series. Learners translate this real-life situation into algebraic form and then extend their knowlege by answering questions...

Here is a great opportunity to introduce your mathematicians to a food they may never have heard of, quinoa. It may help to show a short video on quinoa, or make some quinoa for the class to try. Once they get over how to say quinoa,...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about learning styles. A link to many inventories for learning styles is provided. SL.9-10.1b Group Rules

Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to search for the occupations described in a series of clues. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and vocabulary building, would work well with...

Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about animals that live in Australia. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and science and geography vocabulary,...

Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about Halloween. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and vocabulary building, would work well with ESL students...

Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about rocks and minerals. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and earth science vocabulary, would work well with...

This Find It! quiz from Enchanted Learning encourages deductive reasoning, dictionary use, and vocabulary building. Used as a small group activity, it can promote cooperative learning.