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Fraction Circles
For this math worksheet, students examine 6 circles, each divided to show different fractions: halves, thirds, fourths, sixths and eighths. There are no directions on the page but students could color or label the fractions.
Noyce Foundation
Cat Food
Determine the right mix of cans of cat food. The resource consists of an assessment task to determine the cost to feed two cats for a specific number of days and requires scholars to interpret remainders within a context....
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Performance-Based Assessment Practice Test (Grade 6 Math)
Keep track of your sixth graders' mastery of the Common Core math standards with this practice assessment. Taking a different approach than most standardized tests, this resource includes not only multiple choice questions, but also...
CCSS Math Activities
Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 6th Grade Math – Claim 2
They claim there are problems on the assessment. The presentation provides 13 questions that demonstrate the problem-solving claim for Smarter Balanced assessments. Teachers use the resource to provide examples of problem-solving...
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A Recipe for Air
Students create a pie graph using M&Ms to demonstrate the composition of air. They label each section of the graph, and list the fractions from largest to smallest.
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Flipping For Math
Seventh graders create a video of different formats to deliver a presentation of a math concept such as square roots, decimals, fractions, and more. In this math presentation lesson plan, 7th graders can plan a rap video, story,...
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Scaling the Blues
Students identify musical characteristics of blues music and define the term 'scale.' They identify chromatic, major, pentatonic, and blues scales and label each key on a keyboard using letter names, sharps and flats.
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Sunshine Math-2
In this problem solving learning exercise, students complete 8 varied word problems. Included are money, addition and subtraction, counting and fractions.
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Model Multiplication reteach 12.1
In this drawing a model to multiply fractions with unlike denominators, students review the steps for drawing the models and apply them to solve a word problem and equations. Students solve seven problems.
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Fraction Word Problems
In this fraction review learning exercise, students read about adding, subtracting, multiplying, and and dividing fractions, examine some sample problems, and then solve 9 fraction word problems.
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Cutting Sandwiches
Students discuss shapes and their characteristics. As a class, they explore shapes made from a square. Students explore triangles, squares, fractions of a square such as a half and a quarter. Individually, they complete worksheets, and...
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Connecting With Coordinates
Play a coordinates game to encourage collaborative learning and grid use! Learners plot points on grids and play a game that challenges them to locate a specific point on a coordinate grid by using horizontal and vertical movements.
Center for Math and Science Education
Pocket Solar System
How in the world can something as big as the solar system possibly fit in your pocket? Complete this simple modeling activity and find out, as young scientists gain an appreciation for the incredible scale of outer space.
Inside Mathematics
Two Solutions
Many problems in life have more than one possible solution, and the same is true for advanced mathematics. Scholars solve seven problems that all have at least two solutions. Then three higher-level thinking questions challenge them to...
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4th Grade Math Worksheet
In this 4th grade math review worksheet, students respond to 60 multiple choice questions that review of fractions, decimals, geometry, number sense, and computation.
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Work with Congruent Parts
Learners explore the concept of congruency. In this fractions lesson, students use paper plates to practice recognizing congruent parts as they make folds and cuts to represent equal parts.
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Shelves and Drawers: A Fraction Lesson
Second graders explore fractions as something shared evenly. In this fractions lesson, 2nd graders watch a video and discuss how bookcases and drawers could be divided evenly.
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Fraction Action
Pupils create fractions using strips of paper and then compare the fractions.
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Fraction Word Problems
In this fractions worksheet, students complete fraction word problems containing 1 digit numbers. Students complete 4 problems total.
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Fraction and Decimal Garden
Third graders write fractions and decimals using unifix cube models and grid paper. They draw a garden using grid paper and label each section with the correct fraction and decimal to the tenths. This is a clever way to use manipulatives...
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Integrating Mathematics Into Literature
Students discuss tables, multiples, fractions, ratios, and probability while participating in daily activities in this cross-curricular Math lesson plan using examples from Literature. State standards in Mathematics are addressed over...
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Learning About Our World
Young scholars explore their world using the book "This is the Way We Go to School." They predict information about the story based on the title and pictures. Students label a world map with the names of continents and oceans. They write...
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Walking Math into the Real World
Middle schoolers measure an area given a yardstick. They also convert inches into a fractions of a foot and use data to create a linear graph.