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Investigation - Distribution
Students match match one notice with one child for all children in their group. They will determine the correct number of notices needed by for the children in their group. Through activities, students discover one-to-one correspondence...
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Numbers Are Made of Parts
Children play with barnyard animal cards to practice composing and decomposing numbers. With their "secret number" of animal cards in a cup, they shake and spill them onto a barn story board, counting how many animals fall in the barn...
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Identifying the Patterns
Apple, banana, apple, banana...what's next? Youngsters practice recognizing patterns using these object sequences. For the first four patterns, they examine the start of a set, find the pattern, and complete the subsequent drawings in...
Illustrative Mathematics
Zeroes and factorization of a quadratic polynomial I
This activity uses the division algorithm and the definition of a zero/root of a function to guide your class to see the relationship between zeros and factors of a general quadratic, which can later be generalized to the Remainder...
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Count on Me
Fourth graders use inductive reasoning to find algebraic patterns in geometric figures. They use technology (i.e., calculators, computers) and manipulatives to discover number patterns involving geometric concepts. They solve concrete...
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Graphing on the Computer
Students create a bar graph on the computer using given information from the teacher. They create a bar graph using their own information chart (they need to create one on separate paper first). They utilize Microsoft Excel for this...
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Popcorn
Hungry learners perform a number of popcorn investigations. They investigate the volume of popcorn kernels before and after popping. They use both standard and non-standard units of measurement to measure the kernels.
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Writing Variable Expressions for Physical Models
Explore the concept of writing variable expressions by examining the similarities between expressions with numbers and expressions with variables. Emerging mathematicians determine rules for sequences and patterns before writing a rule...
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The King's Chessboard
Middle schoolers speculate on the better rate of pay: a dollar a day for 10 days, or a penny the first day, two pennies the second, doubling each day for 10 days. Start by listening to the story The King's Chessboard, by David Birch....
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Count to 200
Only 1, 2, or 3 of 15 boxes are completed in each of 5 vertical number tracks. Your pupils' challenge is to fill in the rest in sequence. Will require counting backwards; modify with number lines.
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Review of Limits
In this limit instructional activity, students review limits stated as an expression, analyze Euler's method applied to a rate equation, compute the terms of a given sequence, and identify a sequence as a convergence or divergence. this...
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Finding The Sum of an Infinite Series
Pupils examine finding the sum of an infinite series as the limit of partial sums. Through hands-on activities, students create their own sequence by finding the area of a square and then cutting it in half-sized pieces. They write out...
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Understanding Limits
In this understanding limits, students determine the convergence of given sequences. They use properties of limits to evaluate functions. This two-page worksheet contains examples and explanations, as well as eleven problems.
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Quiz: What's Before, Between and After?
In this before, between and after worksheet, students identify numbers in a sequence. They determine the smallest missing number, the largest, and the median. All numbers are comprised of two digits and are in a sequence of one. This...
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Counting on Counting
Students recognize that counting tells how many objects are in the set irrespective of how they are arranged or the order in which they are counted. They solve problems involving one more or less to a given set using their knowledge of...
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Worksheet 4.12, Induction
In this math worksheet, students prove given propositions for all integer values of the variable. Students use induction to prove statements true.
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Before Me and After Me, Came...
In this number sense instructional activity, students write the number that comes before and after numbers that are given. They write 9 numbers that come before in the first column and 9 numbers that come after in the second column.
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Graphing Coordinates
Sixth graders practice graphing coordinates. In this geometry lesson plan, they use the x and y axis to locate points that must be connected in the right sequence to form a straight line.
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Arithmetic Series
For this arithmetic series worksheet, students identify the first three terms in a given arithmetic series and find the sum of an arithmetic series. This two-page worksheet contains 18 problems.
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Counting Worksheet
In this counting worksheet, students complete 3 different sections in which they are asked to count by fives, write in missing numbers in number sequences, and count items on the page and then write the correct number on the blank...
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Count in Steps of 1
In this counting by 1 worksheet, students complete number sequences, counting by one's in each, 5 total. An answer key and reference website are given.
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Before Worksheet - Numbers
In this before learning exercise, students fill in blanks in number sequences with numbers that come before those given. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Mixed Fraction Sequences
In this math learning exercise, students complete the mixed fractions that are sorted into a sequence. The sheet is intended as a teacher's guide.
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Decimal Sequences
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems that are intended to focus upon he sequences of decimals. The sheet is a teacher's guide.