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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun and Sun Rent a Car

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A wide range of math skills is incorporated into a lesson that involves planning a family's vacation to Florida. Travel expenses are gathered and compared, graphed, and analyzed in hopes of finding the best prices. There are extension...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Welcome to 6th Grade Math

For Teachers 6th
Why is math important? How does math impact our lives outside of math class? This lesson is an introduction to 6th-grade math. Students make connections between math and life while also learning procedures and rules in this 6th-grade...
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Math on the Farm

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses the Mathematics skills that are essential for a crop farmer, particularly measurement, e.g., time, money, volume, area. The article contains a variety of problems based on real life situations.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Movie Theater: Numbers to 9999

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Rice Field: Data and Length

For Students K - 1st Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario of a rice field. Those skills include understanding information displayed in column graphs, collecting data to answer a question, and measuring...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Living in the Mill: 3 D Objects

For Students K - 1st Standards
On this interactive website student practice various math skills using a real life scenario at an ice cream party. Those skills include naming and identifying spheres, cones and cylinders.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Halloween: Shopping

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario doing Halloween shopping. Those skills include solving money problems with addition and subtraction and understanding the value of money and coins.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Number: Count to 1000 and Money

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario on a fishing boat. Those skills include counting forwards by tens, reading three-digit numbers, and producing a three-digit number using base...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Time and Capacity

For Students 1st - 2nd
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at an Italian restaurant. Those skills include determining time from analog clocks, observing capacity of two containers, and putting three...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Subtraction

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this interactive site students get to practice with various math skills in a real life scenario. Those skills include basic subtraction facts using materials, matching number sentences to pictorial representations, and writing number...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Multiplication Tables 3 and 6

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at a fashion store. Those skills include practicing multiplication facts for threes and sixes.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Rice Field: Angles

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario. Those skills include finding angles, drawing angles larger or smaller than a given angle, and locating right angles.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: English Bus: Measurement: Meters

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at a school. Those skills include using centimeters and meters to compare lengths, and recognizing when a unit smaller than meters are required.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Fisher Boat: Decimals

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario on a fishing boat. Those skills include creating patterns of decimal numbers, describing relationships between multiplication facts ,and being...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Hamburger Restaurant: Addition

For Students 3rd - 4th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at a hamburger restaurant. Those skills include adding two-digit numbers and three-digit numbers.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Igloo: Multiplication

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario with a hockey team. Those skills include completing multiplication facts up to 100, making a list of multiples of a number, and locating factors...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Ice Cream Shop: Roman Numerals

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at an ice cream shop. Those skills include identifying and converting Roman Numerals, identifying place value in a number, and sorting numbers...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Data and Graphs

For Students 5th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario involving plants. Those skills include interpreting data in a circle graph, interpreting data in a divided bar graph, and interpreting a bar...
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Middle Ages Mathematics Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The "Middle Ages" is the theme of this mathematics project. Students use problem solving skills to solve real-life situations. Some of the project activities are the game of chess and an experiment catapulting marshmallows. Five...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Playing to Win

For Students 9th - 10th
A simple explanation of the link between math and winning odds at a casino. Learn about determining probability through two examples and about other ways we "play the odds" in real life. A second part of this article, "Place Your Bets:...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Cooking by Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
What's the relationship between ratios and cooking? Find out by reading this brief article, which shows you how to use math in order to increase or decrease a recipes output.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Exploring Ocean Data Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find "oceans of data" for students of all ages. NCTM, California, and Philadelphia standards are listed for each grade level along with lesson plans and other website resources.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Converting to the Metric System

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the metric system and converting to the metric system. Provides a table of common conversions and steps for converting a cookie recipe to the metric system.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Family Traditions Bingo: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week, we are learning about how sharing our family traditions helps us to respect and contribute to the diversity...

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