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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Reviewing Unit 1

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders participate in several activities to practice operations with decimals, fractions, and the distributive property.
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Better Lesson: Unit Closure

For Teachers 6th Standards
What's the best deal? How do you represent equivalent amounts? Students work on these questions as they wrap up Unit 2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: How Many Servings of Oatmeal?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This task provides a context for performing division of a whole number by a unit fraction. This problem is a "How many groups?'' example of division: the "groups'' in this case are the servings of oatmeal and the question is asking how...
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Homeschool Math

Homeschool Math: Fraction Multiplication and Area

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
This fifth-grade lesson explores the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths. We tile the rectangle with unit rectangles and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths. We multiply...
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Picture Fraction

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This resource covers basic fractions and students can choose between a fractional whole up to eight or up to sixteen pieces. Students are given a pie chart and they have to determine what fraction of the chart is shaded. There are ten...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Cool Kool Aid Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson allows young scholars to practice writing and solving rates by conducting an experiment to find the best tasting Kool-Aid mixture. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Solving Problems "By the Hundreds"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute site contains various math exercises relating to percentage and consumer-related problems. An explanation of sales tax, a related problem and answer are given.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Connecting Multiplication and Division

For Teachers 6th
How are multiplication and division connected? Why do 11 divided by 2 and 11 times 1/2 result in the same answer? Students make connections between multiplication and division and work to develop strategies for dividing whole numbers by...
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Better Lesson: Area With Halves

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Fractions can be used to understand halves of a unit square.

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