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Is Your Order Up or Down?
Students practice ordering numbers. In this number sense lesson, students collaborate to order whole numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest. Students also practice the concept by using educational software.
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Cookie Mining
Students investigate mining and economics. In this mining lesson, students play a game in which they purchase property, mine the property, and pay for reclamation. Students earn money for each ore mined.
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Positive & Negative Space
Students review and differentiate between positive and negative space, view teacher sample, and cut out shapes to create puzzle-like picture in which one color of paper represents positive space and one color represents negative space.
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Using Data
In this analyzing data learning exercise, 4th graders read, study and interpret a bar graph on how many hours Millie spends a week drawing each day. Students answer 2 short answer questions relating to the bar graph.
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Women in Space
Students read biographies of women who have made contributions to field of aerospace and aeronautics, choose one woman to research, and present their findings to classmates in form of essay, play, poster, or presentation.
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Graphing Linear Equations on the TI
Students graph linear equations on the TI calculator. In this algebra lesson, students rewrite equations in the slope intercept form and use the calculator to graph their problem. They work together to interpret the graphs off of the TI.
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Double Bar Graphs - Practice 7.1
In this double bar graph worksheet, students make a double bar graph from given information, then solve related problems in addition to 2 test prep problems. Houghton Mifflin text referenced.
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Snack Time
In this counting practice worksheet, students complete the table by counting the sets of fruit and then answer the questions comparing the fruit numbers.
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Subtracting Zero
In this subtraction worksheet, students will subtract zero from one, two and three digit numbers. The equations are presented vertically.
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Math #3 Problems at the Ballpark
Students examine charts to answer questions. They develop their own database.
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Alternative Alphabet
Students determine and compare hieroglyph content and frequency to sentences constructed in an alternative alphabet based on symbols that mimic sounds of the alphabet. They decide which images are hieroglyphs and which ones are not.
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Bottleneck
In this paper clips worksheet, students solve a word problem where they move paper clips around in cups. Students complete 1 complex problem.
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Bar Graphs
For this bar graph worksheet, students complete math problems having to do with different bar graphs. Students complete 10 problems for 10 different graphs.
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Apples
Students are asked what kinds of vegetables do they like to eat, and what kinds of fruits do they like to eat? They are asked to describe how an apple might taste. Students count the number of green apples, they are told the different...
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Make a Bar Graph
In this bar graphs worksheet, students use the tally chart to make a bar graph. Students color one box for each tally mark and then use the chart to help answer the questions about the sunny, cloudy, and rainy days.
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Compare Numbers
In this number comparisons worksheet, learners use the table for the 'Enrollment in a Music School' to compare numbers and answer the six word problems.
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Heavier or Lighter
Math comes alive in this interactive lesson, which prompts students to weigh small classroom-available items (erasers, pencils, rulers) as well as more obscure items that would need to be provided (a basket, a small toy car). Students...
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Picturing Hats
In this pictographs learning exercise, students examine a pictograph then solve 11 problems related to the data in the pictograph. Students cross out problems that do not relate to the pictograph.
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Spill the Beans
In this number sense worksheet, 1st graders work with a partner to practice skills of estimation. Students use a cup and beans to estimate the amount of beans that come out of the cup before completing an accurate count each turn.
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Finding a Chair
Here is an activity that incorporates subtraction in word problems. Youngsters are provided with six word problems that essentially deal with the same numbers in each problem, yet use different comparison language. These problems are...
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I Feel Renewed!
Students participate in a simulation of the equal and unequal distribution of the earth's renewable resources. They discuss renewable resources and how food resources can increase and decrease, participate in the simulation, and analyze...
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Away We Go!
Students study types of transportation. In this transportation lesson, students survey several classes to gather data on how they get to school. Students create a transportation graph.
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In Search of California Indians
Fourth graders research information about some of California indigenous tribes to find out as much as possible about the first people found in the west. They research about the history of a selected tribe and their contributions to...
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Count the Apples & Color the Trees
In this counting and coloring activity worksheet, students count the apples on each tree. Students color the tree brown that has the fewer number of apples and color the tree green that has more apples.