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Better Lesson: Patterns Make Ten
This lesson builds a foundation for adding larger numbers which is supported by the Common Core standards for second grade.
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Helping With math.com: Ratios and Unit Rates
This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for students to review the skills.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Comparing Temperatures
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: 6.ns Interpreting a Division Computation
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: Building Toward Fluency
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: F Le Taxi!
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: N Q Giving Raises
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: A Rei the Circle and the Line
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: 6.ee Distance to School
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: 6.sp Buttons: Statistical Questions
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: Pick a Number, Counting On
Students will practice counting on with this class game. The teacher will put multiple numbers in a hat or on sticks from the known counting sequence. S/he randomly picks one number and asks the class to count on ten numbers from that...
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Illustrative Mathematics: Longer and Heavier? Shorter and Heavier?
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: 6.ns Fractions on the Number Line
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.