Learners conduct simple bartering and trading activities and consider how product value can be altered by the market.

Students make paper ten strips using graph paper. They add them together to depict the powers of ten.

Third graders, given the price of different ingredients, make a trail mix of five different items without exceeding their budget of five dollars. They choose between pretzels, M&M's, twizzlers, popcorn, etc,. Each student practices...

Students are introduced to the solar system and its place in the universe. They begin to grasp the idea of very large numbers by estimating and computing how long it take the class to make a million x's.

Students look at data in graphs with missing labels and use what they know about graphs to label the topics, titles, and axes of the graph. For this graph lesson plan, students pretend they are news reporters and have to fix their stories!

Students watch an episode of JoJo's Circus on the Disney Channel. While viewing, they note how many things they see represented by the number 100. As a class, they practice counting numbers by tens and end the lesson by dancing to music.

In this counting worksheet, students will use jellybeans or M&Ms for graphing the different colors. Students will sort the candies by color and count how many they have of each.

Students complete computer activities about estimating if items are more or less than a given amount. In this estimation lesson plan, students also estimate measurements around the classroom.

Students fill in a probability chart while attempting to catch candy with their non-dominant hands. They replicate the activity with a coin.

Students match plastic eggs to the number in the carton. In this mathematics lesson, students take each plastic egg with a number on it and match that number to the number written on the bottom of each egg solt in the carton.

Mostly a holiday coloring sheet, kindergarteners also count and write the number of jellybeans depicted. Though there is only one set of objects to count, the activity does, indeed meet the stated Common Core standards. Ask individuals...

In this video segment from Cyberchase, Inez estimates whether she has enough jelly beans in her large container to decorate all of the cookies in her batch.

The activity will explore counting, sorting, and graphing skills. The activity provides students an exciting and fun way of exploring and internalizing graphing, sorting, and counting skills. Realistically, the students will discover...

Using "Starburst" jelly beans to sort, graph and add.

Helpful resources for planning classroom instruction on absolute value equations: a lesson with example problems and step-by-step solutions; a practice exercise through which students can quiz their knowledge of absolute value equations...

The concept of absolute value equations is explained and then explored through several examples. Tips and suggestions are offered as to the common pitfalls to avoid. An all-class activity is also explained for the teacher to engage the...