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Classifying Living Things
Students identify how to classify living things. They classify various concepts including family members, kinds of clothing, numbers, shapes, and vocabulary words. They discuss how to classify various concepts and classify pictures of...
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Place Value Logic
In this place value worksheet, students read word problems giving them clues to numbers by telling the place value or if the digits are greater or less than other numbers. Students complete 5 problems total.
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Recognizing Right Angles
In this right angles worksheet, learners analyze 9 geometric or irregular shapes. In the box below each picture, students put a "tick" if there is a right angle or a "cross" if there is not.
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JFK Analysis
Young scholars examine a recent study of the JFK assassination. They review evidence provided by retired atmospheric chemist, Ken Rahn, and ballistics specialist and statistician, Larry Sturdivan, and determine whether or not they...
Under the Dome
Consecutive Number Sums
Determine equivalent methods to find sums of consecutive numbers. Learners watch a video of a computer program that finds the sum of five consecutive numbers given a starting number. Pupils hypothesize how to determine the sum without...
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Number Sense Review for Grade 3
In this number sense review for grade 3 instructional activity, 3rd graders answer 20 multiple choice questions in standardized test format about third grade math.
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Divisibility Rules
In this divisibility rules activity, students review the rule for divisibility by 2 and then make a list of numbers from 20 to 50 that are divisible by 2. Students then mark an 'x' for the numbers that are divisible by 2. Students review...
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Near Doubles
In this doubles in addition worksheet, students complete the addition sentences by writing the matching doubles plus 1 equation. Students then write if the doubles in the plus 1 equations were odd or even numbers and explain why.
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Pairs
Second graders brainstorm as a class, things that come in pairs and discuss why we say they come in pairs. They observe the teacher as she explains that grouping items in pairs make them easier to count; discovering that she is counting...
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The Language of Mathematics
Young scholars integrate the language, concepts and skills of math into the daily routine and classroom environment. They think mathematically by participating in short, daily, individual, small group, whole group and transitional...
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1 VS the Mob
Students prepare to become the first to cover four adjacent products, horizontally, vertically or diagonally by selecting factors that make the needed products. They play this game to acquire a healthy appetite for competition between...
Illustrative Mathematics
Double Plus One
Practice doubling with a straightforward worksheet. Learners double plus one each number in the table, and then answer a series of hypothetical math equations.
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Public Key Cryptography
Investigate how public key cryptography works. Scholars continue their study of one-way functions and asymmetric keys and apply this information to public key cryptography. They use an app to explore public key cryptography and its...
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Powers of Trig Functions
For this trigonometric worksheet, young scholars solve integrals by substitution and the Pythagorean theorem. Students use their trigonometric functions to solve problems. This four-page worksheet contains 20 problems.
Willow Tree
Factoring Polynomials
Young mathematicians discover trees organize more than just families — they help factor, too. The lesson begins with factor trees and develops slowly to factoring by grouping and special patterns.
Mathematics Vision Project
Module 7: Modeling with Functions
The sky's the limit of what you create when combining functions! The module begins with a review of transformations of parent functions and then moves to combining different function types using addition, subtraction, and...
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The Dart Problem
In this dart problem worksheet, learners write an algorithm to determine the greatest impossible score for a dartboard game. This one-page worksheet contains 1 problem. The answer is listed at the end of the problem.
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Power Function Inverses
Pupils graph polynomial functions and analyze the graphs. They identify the inverse of the functions and find the domain and range. Learners will then label the functions as one to one and use the horizontal and vertical line test to...
Mathed Up!
Proof
Scholars learn how to write number theory proofs by viewing a video reviewing techniques for proofs on divisibility, parity, and consecutive integers. They then write proofs for a handful of conjectures on a instructional activity.
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Range, Cluster, Gap and Outliers
There are a number of activities here where learners collect and record data, as well as, activities where the likelihood of an event happening is calculated given the experimental probability. Young statisticians organize information...
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Inequality and the 1/2 Benchmark
Fourth graders utilize fraction bar manipulatives to compare a variety of fractions to the fraction value 1/2. Pupils are put into groups, and they begin to see how fractions that look completely different actually represent the same...
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Goldilocks and the Three Hares
Students read the book Goldilocks and the Three Hares and complete activities to go along with it. In this Goldilocks and the Three Hares lesson plan, students complete activities on puns, facts about weasels, rabbits and hares, and more.
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Number Line Locomotion
Here is a great instructional activity that incorporates movement into academic learning. Young scholars improve addition subtraction skills by using number lines and locomotor movement.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: K-W-H-L Strategy
Ah, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer! Before your class reads this classic novel, encourage them to activate prior knowledge and build interest in the book with the KWHL strategy. Directions for walking your class through this strategy are...