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Curated OER

From George to Martha: Writing a Sonnet Using Primary Sources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What was the relationship like between George and Martha Washington? To protect their privacy, Martha Washington destroyed all her husband’s letters after his death so historians have little evidence of their lives together. Two letters...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Adapted Sorry Board Game

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Board games are great for building social skills and for fostering recreation and leisure skills! Here, you'll find an image and a brief description of how you can make a tactile version of the game Sorry for your blind or low-vision...
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Curated OER

Number After Bingo 1-15

For Teachers K Standards
Using a number line, as a class, discuss the concept of the number after. Choosing numbers on the number line, ask your kindergartners what number comes next and point to that number. Once the class has this concept down, pair-up and...
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Curated OER

Dice Addition

For Teachers K Standards
Using the provided tracing number worksheet, a pair of kindergartners will practice their adding skills. Player A will roll two die, add the sum, and then trace the sum on the worksheet. Player B will take a turn and do the same. The...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Distance across the channel

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Here you will find a model of a linear relationship between two quantities, the water depth of a channel and the distance across the channel at water level. The cross section of the channel is the shape of an isosceles trapezoid. The...
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Illustrative Mathematics

US Garbage, Version 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
An interesting example of a discrete function and how it is applies to the real world. This could easily make a good collaborative lesson with an environmental science class. Practice reading a table and drawing a scatter plot make up...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Find the Change

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This exercise is an opportunity for algebra learners to understand the connection between the slope of a line and points found on the line. Use similar triangles to explain why slope m is the same between any two points. Discuss with the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Walk-a-thon 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Your mathematician's job is to explore the relationship between hours and miles walked during a walk-a-thon. The activity compels your learners to experiment with different means in finding out this proportional relationship. The answer...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Reasoning about Multiplication and Division and Place Value, Part 1

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Help your class make sense of quantities and their relationships. Given is the product of two numbers. It is up to your number crunchers to think about the quantitative relationship when the product is one-tenth or ten times the product...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Running to School, Variation 3

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
How far is it between school and home? Here is a relatable activity where the participant runs to school a certain fraction of the way. That distance is given in miles. It is up to your learners to determine the distance between home and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Running to School, Variation 2

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Rose's commute to school is a fractional distance. After she runs part of the way, your class needs to determine what fractional distance she ran. This problem explores fraction operations through modeling and computation. The...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Gifts from Grandma, Variation 3

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
There are three money word problems in this activity, each one is set in the same context. The first asks what was the total amount grandma spent, the second how many grandchildren grandma has, and the third asks how much grandma spent...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Drinking Juice, Variation 3

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
It is up to the learner to find the amount of juice originally in a bottle, knowing what fraction of the juice is left, and the amount that has been consumed. The accompanying commentary provides a useful and detailed description of...
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Capitalization

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Teach your class the rules of capitalization with this fun, engaging lesson. Children participate in a learning activity, collaborate with peers, and practice their writing as they learn three specific rules: to always capitalize the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Christo’s Building

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Hook your charges on how to solve a real-world art problem with mathematics by showing works of Christo. You can find eye-catching images on the Christo and Jeanne Claude webpage. Here, math learners help Jean Claude and Christo prepare...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Drinking Juice, Variation 2

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
An excellent activity using word problems where pupils interpret and compute quotients of fractions. The commentary includes using a fraction bar model and equations to represent the problem. In this variation of the resource, the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

The Circle and The Line

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Here is a resource where algebra learners show their understanding of a system of equations involving a circle and a line. Once graphed, learners see two points of intersection, one where the ordered pair is read, and a second where...
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Curated OER

Finding the Area of an Equilateral Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
The problem seems simple: find the area of the equilateral triangle whose sides are each length 1. In fact, this same problem is solved in 8th grade, addressing a different Common Core standard, using the formula for area of a triangle...
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Curated OER

Birds' Eggs

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
More than just data, scatter plots are full of information that can be used to answer a variety of questions. This lesson uses a plot with information about bird egg sizes to answer questions about the relationship between length and...
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Scholastic

What Happened Next? (Grades K-4)

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Explore the structure of narrative writing with this fun, collaborative instructional activity. Start by reading aloud a short story, asking small groups of learners to fill in key events on a large story board prepared on the class...
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Curated OER

Tetrahedral Dice

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Put those thinking hats on and look at all the possible outcomes from rolling two different four-sided dice. The challenge in this problem is finding all the combinations when adding and subtracting the numbers from each die and creating...
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Curated OER

Point Reflection

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Use this task as an exit ticket for your eight graders during the geometry unit. All they need to do is identify the coordinates of a point reflected over y=2000. 
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Illustrative Mathematics

Measure Me!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
How many unifix cubes tall are you? If you're not sure, then perform this math activity with your class and find out. Working in pairs, young mathematicians make measuring sticks out of unifix cubes in order to determine the length of...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Grandfather Tang's Story

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
It's amazing the complex figures that can be made using only a few simple shapes. Following a class reading of the children's book Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert, young mathematicians use sets of tangrams to create models of the...

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