Students build Lego cars which have two different types of tire surfaces. They roll them down ramps that have both rough and smooth surfaces to determine how friction affects the car as it rolls.

Students construct a "voting booth" to gather data using RCX programmable brick and touch sensors. They identify a survey question, construct the booth, and analyze the results by uploading data.

Students investigate and experiement with a 9-volt motor. They will use the connecting wire and battery pack to discover fans.

Student design and build Lego vehicles that drag given amount of weight up an incline. They show how this demonstrates Egyptian methods of pyramid construction.

Students are introduced to the given problem and describe in their own words the situation represented in a bar chart and tally chart. They then use a bar chart and tally chart to make sensible predictions.

Students interpret and identify the elements of folktales, with an emphasis on tall tales, in this lesson. Students utilize brainstorming techniques to list ways people communicate. Students also read and create a time line and present...

Everyday Math Resources for 5th grade is an excellent resource for both students and teachers. Twelve math strands are linked to activities and interactive games that support the learning outcomes. Click on links at the top to access...

Students will work as a class to solve word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions. To culminate the lesson, students will create their own word problems.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is for fourth grade Everyday Math Unit 5 Lesson 1.

In this resource, parents are asked to consider how they feel about Math, then are presented with lots of ideas for mathematical activities they can try with their children.

A 60-page illustrated glossary of math terms for Grades 4-6.

This resource offers two different topic problems per week for students to solve. A video showing the method to solve each problem is given. After viewing a solution method for solving the problem try one on your own where you can only...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson was made to compliment Everyday Mathematics Grade 5, Lesson 1.1. It includes the poem, Arithmetic, math boxes with added materials, and High Number Toss math game.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to compare the lengths of everyday objects to one yard and state whether they are longer or shorter. Includes video...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to compare the lengths of everyday objects to a foot or a yard and state whether they are longer or shorter. Includes...

On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario. Those skills include using words to show four-digit numbers, putting numbers in ascending order, and relating large numbers to everyday life.

On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario on a fishing boat. Those skills include using everyday percentages as fractions and decimals, and multiplying simple fractions by whole numbers.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will help students review multiplication with hands-on activities and Everyday Math tools. An Activote session is at the end of the flipchart for assessment.

Math Forum offers this exciting lesson to help students with multiplying and dividing fractions through a recipe made in the classroom.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used in Everyday Math for third grade. It involves metric and U.S. Customary weights and measuring different objects.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students practice changing mixed numbers to fractions and fractions to mixed numbers. This lesson also can be used with section 8.5 in the third grade Everyday Math series.

On this interactive site students learn how to show measurments in decimal notation, subtract decimal numbers, and divide or multiply decimal numbers by 10, 100 or 1000.

Activities and factsheets exploring ratios and proportions in everyday life. Interactive, colorful, and fun.

This site gives the general definition of a parallelogram with examples and questions for the reader to ponder about characteristics of parallelograms. There are also links to related terms, everyday examples, challenging problems, more...