Curated OER
Similarity
Students engage in a activity that is concerned with the concept of similarity. This takes higher order thinking skills and being able to separate into categories. Specifically in this activity they are introduced to the scale and how it...
Curated OER
Elapsed Time Two
Learners study how to calculate elapsed time. For this elapsed time lesson, they determine how to calculate the ending time of an event when they are given the starting time and the elapsed time. They participate in direct instruction,...
Curated OER
Three-Digit Addition
Young scholars work with hundreds place value, create and manipulate three-digit addition problems, and add three-digit numbers.
Kinderplans
6-10 Worksheet
Developing writers and mathematicians can practice writing their numbers six through ten, in a simple chart-format worksheet. Children can be instructed to trace the given number, write the number two more times, and draw a visual...
Curated OER
Find the Shapes in a Picture
Use coloring to remind young learners that geometry is all around them! A simple image of a house, sun, and tree becomes the format for several basic shapes. The instructions direct scholars to trace and color each shape using a...
Curated OER
How Many Cans of Juice?
Use something familiar to students in this word problem; juice! They examine a scenario in which two summer campers each bring a certain number of juice cans to camp, finding the total number of cans they have together. Pictures give...
Curated OER
Unknown Addends (to 20): Count the Blank Boxes
By filling in the blank squares, learners complete five addition number sentences both visually and numerically. For each problem, a frame is filled with a certain number of images (turkeys, candles, etc.) and a certain number of blank...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
The Power of Ten: Building a Magnitude Model
Add visual representation to teaching place value with a magnitude model. Using adding machine tape, pupils build a linear place value strip from 1 to 100.
Shodor Education Foundation
Caesar Cipher
Caesar ciphers hide secret missives. A simple interactive lets users encode and decode hidden messages. The cipher method here is the Caesar shift.
Shodor Education Foundation
Crazy Choices Game
Wanna take a chance on which game is best? The resource provides three games of chance using multiple types of games. Games range from coin toss to cards. Choosing a type of game, pupils determine what wins and enter the theoretical...
Shodor Education Foundation
Spinner
Go round and round to compare theoretical and experimental probabilities. Learners set the number of sectors and the number of spins for a spinner. Then, a table displays the experimental and theoretical probabilities of the spinner for...
Shodor Education Foundation
Marbles
Grab some marbles from a bag. The applet simulates drawing marbles from a bag. Pupils determine the number of four colors of marbles in a bag and how many marbles to draw. Using information on whether order matters in the draw and if...
Shodor Education Foundation
Graphit
No graphing calculator? No worries, there's an app for that! Young mathematicians use an app to graph functions. In addition, they can also plot data points.
Shodor Education Foundation
Conic Flyer
Graphing conics made easy. Individuals use an interactive to graph conic sections. The app can handle circles, vertical and horizontal parabolas, ellipses, and vertical and horizontal hyperbolas.
Shodor Education Foundation
Regression
How good is the fit? Using an interactive, classmates create a scatter plot of bivariate data and fit their own lines of best fit. The applet allows pupils to display the regression line along with the correlation coefficient. As a final...
Shodor Education Foundation
Overlapping Gaussians
Adjust the overlap to compare probabilities. Using sliders, learners adjust the shape of two Gaussian curves. The interactive calculates the area of the left tail for one curve and the right tail for the other. Pupils set the interactive...
Shodor Education Foundation
Spread of Disease
Control the spread of a contagious disease. An applet allows pupils to run a simulation on the spread of a disease. Rules govern how the disease is spread and the length of time it takes to recover. Learners view the spread visually and...
Shodor Education Foundation
Skew Distribution
Slide the class into a skewed view. Learners alter the location of the median relative to the mean of a normal curve to create a skew distribution. They compare the curve to a histogram distribution with the same skewness.
Mathed Up!
Negative Numbers
Eight independent worksheet pages challenge scholars to solve 12 problems that focus on negative numbers in the context of temperature in degrees of celsius.
EngageNY
Criterion for Perpendicularity
The Pythagorean Theorem is a geometry pupil's best friend! Learners explain the equation a1b1 + a2b2 = 0 for perpendicular segments using the Pythagorean Theorem. They are able to identify perpendicular segments using their...
EngageNY
Normal Distributions (part 2)
From z-scores to probability. Learners put together the concepts from the previous lessons to determine the probability of a given range of outcomes. They make predictions and interpret them in the context of the problem.
California Education Partners
Science Fair Project
Plant the data firmly on the graph. Given information about the growth rate of plants, pupils determine the heights at specific times and graph the data. Using the information, scholars determine whether a statement is true and support...
Math Worksheets Land
Halloween Interpreting Pictograph
The best part about Halloween is the candy. Individuals read a pictograph that depicts the amount of candy five children received. Then, they respond to five questions using the picture graph to support their answers.
Curriculum Corner
Spring Find a Fact Addition
Test scholars' knowledge of addition facts with a festive activity that makes adding a two-person game. Pairs examine a grid of numbers to locate and color addition facts. Last person to color three squares wins!