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Scholastic

Study Jams! Estimate Sums & Differences of Whole Numbers

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Estimating is an essential skill used in everyday life. This presentation explains how to apply prior knowledge about rounding numbers to estimating sums and differences. Example problems and assessment include large numbers, making this...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Study Buddies: Using Front-End Estimation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students will work with a coach to estimate equations using front-end estimation. Students will follow a step-by-step process and notes are provided for the coach.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Method of Front-End Arithmetic

For Teachers 6th
Teach the class how to add using front-end addition. They are given a shopping list and use it to practice adding from the largest place value to the smallest. Computational math and shopping, what fun!
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reasonable Estimates

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Help pupils explore estimation. They will make estimates and discuss when you might use an estimate. Then they discuss if their estimates are reasonable.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Go Shopping: Estimation At The Mall

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students estimate the total cost of a shopping trip. For this estimation lesson, students use three different techniques to estimate how much a shopping trip will cost.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Number Sense

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice rounding 4 digit numbers using place value concepts. In this estimating sums and differences lesson plan, 1st graders explore clustering, rounding, and front end estimation as methods for rounding decimals.
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Printables
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unit 2 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 3)

For Teachers 3rd
A set of third grade math vocabulary cards include topics that range from addition properties to terms like estimate and fact family. Each sheet has two cards on it. The top half is the word printed in bold text, while the bottom is the...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unit 2 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 5)

For Students 5th Standards
Twenty-eight flashcards make up a set designed to reinforce math vocabulary. Two styles of cards showcase either a bold-faced word or a corresponding definition card equipped with an example and labels. Terms include commutative property...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unit 2 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 4)

For Students 4th
The 28-page resource contains cards with terms relating to multiplication from inverse operations to front-end estimation to array. Each sheet contains two cards; one with the word and one with the definition.
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Worksheet
Federal Reserve Bank

The Output Gap: A‘Potentially’ Unreliable Measure of Economic Health?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How can we accurately estimate what the economy should produce now and in the future? Have your pupils tackle this question as they learn about real versus potential GDP and as they review data regarding the output gap in the United States.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tracking the Salt Front

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students manipulate Hudson River salt front data from October 2004 - September 2005 to locate the high and low points of the salt front for each month, They determine the range for each month, determine the modal range for each month,...
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Curated OER

The Mole as a Large Number or an Exercise in Dimensional Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete an activity and make "provable estimates."  In this dimensional analysis lesson students use dimensional analysis and complete an activity. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Rounding and Estimation

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this rounding and estimating worksheet, students learn how to round numbers up and down. They also read about using estimations to quickly calculate answers to difficult math problems. Students then solve the 12 rounding questions in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Clasroom Study of the Life of an Airplane

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in an experiment to discover the properties of lift. They work together to complete calculations and collect data. They share their results with the class.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Study Buddies: Adding Decimals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
For this math worksheet, students will work with a coach to add numbers with decimals to the hundredths place. Students will follow a step-by-step process and notes are provided for the coach.
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Unit Plan
Gwinnett County Public Schools

Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day lesson, day one...
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Handout
Charleston School District

Solving Systems with Substitutions

For Students 8th - 9th Standards
How many large and small watermelons did he sell? Just use the given information to write and solve a system of equations! The two videos accompanying the lesson explain the substitution method and then introduce problem solving. The...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

MOVING IN TWO DIMENSIONS (GRAPHING)

For Students 5th - 7th
In this graphing activity, students are asked to graph a "sketch" of a path walked by a student. Directions E, W, N and S are used. Students are given 8 graphs to complete and are then asked to evaluate their findings.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Toboggan Science

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Young scholars conduct toboggan time trials to investigate the variables that have the greatest effect on toboggan speed. In small groups, they develop a hypothesis to test and perform three trials on the toboggan run for each variable.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson 5. Breaking Point

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore how soldiers could be pushed to desertion and mutiny and how this decision affected the outcome of the war.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Check My Writing:Original Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn to check and evaluate their letter writing skills using a checklist created during interactive writing sessions. The lesson provides students with criteria for good letter writing and serves as an evaluation tool for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Watching the Clock: An activity to build media-savvy students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze time constraints on broadcast news. They apply data collecting and data display skills. They identify the difference between news progams and the evening news.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating Laws

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners view Schoolhouse Rock, I'm Just a Bill video. They explain how a bill becomes a law as well as define the difference between a bill and a law. They discuss how political beliefs might effect the process of a bill becoming a law.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Wheeling Around

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the characteristics of a circle and the formulas to find circumference. They use a bicycle wheel to determine the circumference around a wheel. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which has a variety of...