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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: An Introduction to Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Quadrilaterals-parallelograms, rectangles, and trapezoids-are thoroughly introduced in this lesson plan for upper elementary and middle school learners. Lots of resources are linked to it to help support the teacher and students....
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Area

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan helps students explore the mathematical concept of area and features resource links to further learning. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.a Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Paper Folding Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a lesson plan of paper folding as a method of proof. A Java applet version of the activity can be accessed, giving the actual lengths and angle sizes.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Is the Action of the Problem?

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders work towards CCSS.MP1: Make sense of and persevere through problems with this introductory instructional activity. Students learn to visualize what is happening in the problem.
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Better Lesson: More Dimes and Dollars

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders need practice using coins and dollars and relating them to ones, tens and hundreds. Common Core standards include counting by 10s and 100s.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Patterns Make Ten

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson builds a foundation for adding larger numbers which is supported by the Common Core standards for second grade.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Summarizing Mathematical Learning With the Important Book

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown is used as a mentor text. Students will create an illustrated paragraph about a particular math topic. Students will use the mentor text and attempt to adapt the author's style to...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Building Shapes Review of 2 D Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What do students love more than building? Building with marshmallows! In this lesson, students get to build shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. Included are an extensive lesson plan, a video showing examples, a worksheet, and ideas...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Ways to Make 10 a Lesson on Decomposing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will learn what it means to represent a number in different ways and will begin to explore decomposing numbers. Included is a detailed lesson plan, link to an online game, worksheet, center ideas, and a "Ways to Make 10"...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Creating Shapes in Our World

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this lesson, learners will work with 3-Dimensional shapes identifying attributes of the shapes and recreating them. Students will create, identify and describe 3-Dimensional shapes as part of the...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Equivalent Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This multi-segment lesson plan uses games and calculators to explore the concept of equivalent expressions. Students work together using inverse operations to isolate variables in algebraic equations. It also provides attachments for...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Comparing Temperatures

For Teachers 6th Standards
This task has students do computations with positive and negative numbers in the context of temperature. Aligns with 6.NS.C.7.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Taxi!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students explore the linear relationship between distance traveled and taxi fare cost. Aligns with A-REI.D.10 and F-LE.B.5.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Building Toward Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
The purpose of this task is to promote certain addition strategies that will help students learn to fluently add and subtract within 20. Students will use a number line or magnetic cubes to solve addition problems. Students will be asked...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N Q Giving Raises

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A small company wants to give raises to their 5 employees. They have $10,000 available to distribute. Imagine you are in charge of deciding how the raises should be determined. What method would be fair to everyone? Aligns with HSN-Q.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Rei the Circle and the Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students are required to solve a system of equations in this task which will demonstrate their understanding of the correspondence between intersection points of the two graphs and solutions of the system. Aligns with A-REI.C.7.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Distance to School

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This task asks students to find equivalent expressions by visualizing a familiar activity involving distance. The given solution shows some possible equivalent expressions, but there are many variations possible. Aligns with 6.EE.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.sp Buttons: Statistical Questions

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
A task asking students to determine which of the six questions listed are statistical questions and which are not. Students are then asked to write a statistical question of their own.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Longer and Heavier? Shorter and Heavier?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will compare the length and weight of several pairs of objects to learn that weight and length are separate measurable attributes, and not always related.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Grandfather Tang's Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to compose two-dimensional shapes to create a composite shape using tangram pieces. The teacher will read "Grandfather Tang's Story" and the students will use tangrams to compose the animals from...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Srt Ask the Pilot

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In the July 2013 issue of United Airlines' Hemisphere Magazine, a pilot responded to a question about how far in the distance he could see at different altitudes. The solution involved right triangles, lines of tangency to a circle, and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Fractions on the Number Line

For Teachers 6th Standards
In this task, 6th graders locate positive and negative fractions on a number line, determine if some inequalities are true, and compare fractions for their closeness to zero. Aligns with 6.NS.C.7.a.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Interpreting a Division Computation

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders are shown the arithmetic for a multi-digit division problem and are asked to use it to find the products of related multiplication questions. Aligns with 6.NS.B.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Symmetries of a Quadrilateral Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
There is exactly one reflection and no rotation that sends the convex quadrilateral ABCD onto itself. What shape(s) could quadrilateral ABCD be? Explain. Aligns with G-CO.A.3.

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