Students apply understanding of fractions by converting a recipe to feed the class and the whole grade level. They calculate how many cookies the class would eat and multiply each fraction in the recipe accordingly.

In this permutation and combinations worksheet, students read situations and determine if it is a permutation or combination. They write equations and solve problems. This one-page worksheet contains eleven problems. Answers are...

Middle schoolers use jelly beans to gain an understanding of fractions. In this fraction lesson plan, students receive jelly beans and count the number of beans they have in each color. Middle schoolers then name the fraction for...

In this quotients with remainders worksheet, students, with a partner, problem solve ten word problems or equations involving quotients.

Fourth graders practice adding rice cookies. In this mental math lesson, 4th graders get into groups and call out numbers to each other to add mentally. Students use the rice cookies to show the answer.

Sixth graders participate in an activity in which colored jelly beans represent fish in a lake--10 green jellybeans per "lake" representing tagged fish. They draw from the beans (fish) and record the number of tagged fish they draw...

Students work in groups to stuff as many envelopes as they can in 3-5 minutes. They use an assembly line method. Envelope stuffing is compared to a chemical reactions. The idea of catalyst is considered, and students determine a way to...

Second graders create a fact family town to develop the understanding of numbers related in fact families. They learn each family has a big number and two baby numbers. They make triangle shaped houses for their facts.

Second graders identify fractions as part of a set. They explain concrete and symbolic representations of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percents in real-world situations. They complete a web-based cookie baking lesson.

Students brainstorm how math is used in daily life. They develop a class list of different topic areas in which math is used and work in small groups to think of specific examples of how math is an important part of their lives.

Fourth graders perform computation based on a cup of rice.  In this rice math lesson, 4th graders complete math examples and problems using rice for manipulatives. Students participate in an online game based on rice math.

Students solve problems using various strategies. In this problem solving instructional activity, students read the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni. Students make fish swimming patterns, measure how many goldfish crackers it takes to make a...

In this buying stickers worksheet, 2nd graders look over 4 rows of various stickers and circle three or more stickers from each row. Students add the amount for all their stickers on each line and write their total amount for each row on...

In these recognizing tens and ones worksheets, students count the rods and units and write the numbers in the tens and ones columns, write the correct numbers for the given tens and ones, covert words to the correct numerals, and...

Fifth graders observe and compare apples. In this apples lesson, 5th graders work in groups to record the physical characteristics of a variety of apples. Students predict each apples weight and then weigh them to see if they were...

Students solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems that focus on serving size and counting 5 A Day.