Students discover patterns and sequences. They use a website to explore patterns and fractals. Students share their discovery of fractals and their patterns with the class. They develop a list of patterns used in everyday life.

Fourth graders use an online tool entitled the "Fraction of Fractions" tool to examine how to find a fraction of a fraction. They apply the array tool to problem solving situations. They complete paper folding activities in which they...

Second graders explore a folktale from India. In this folktale activity, 2nd graders read the book The Cleverest Thief and discuss how the monks felt in the story. Students complete a cloze activity sheet. There are several extensions...

Learners solve problems. In this math activity, students write solutions using LOGO commands in order to help get the turtle to the pond.

Students read the story The Magic Pot and complete language arts based activities based on the story. In this language arts lesson plan, students discuss, listen, observe, and complete language worksheets.

Students explore geometry by participating in a pattern identification activity. In this tetrominoes lesson, students define the characteristics of congruent and symmetrical shapes. Students practice translating shapes across quadrants...

Take your study of coordinates online! Groups of learners complete an online graphing introduction, plotting the points of virtual objects. A worksheet is included for extra practice.

Upper graders work with number patterns. In this pattern instructional activity, learners recognize and continue number patterns and find the rules.  They do some as a class and complete an assessment. 

Explore the connection between operations with scientific notation and the laws of exponents. Scholars work on a set of word problems involving operations with scientific notation. Along the way, they consider how the laws of exponents...

Explore slope using geometric patterns. Young mathematicians investigate towers built from cubes to develop a linear pattern. They move the data to a coordinate plane to connect the pattern to slopes.

Students work together on a word problem. They write a written report of the answer. They participate in a chessgame in which the answers are used.

Fifth graders reorganize comic strips to have them make sense, complete outline and organize their thoughts into outline form to explain directions, and use that outline to complete their own directions for geometry activities.

Students explore mathematical problem solving. Given a case problem, students write a rule to solve problems involving decimal multiplication and division. They invent problems, share them with the class, and solve other student's...

In this add by 2 worksheet, students fill in blank squares in number sequences, adding by 2, 6 sequences total. Answers included on page 2. A reference web site is given for additional activities.

Do your young mathematicians recognize the recycle sign? Learners fill in the blank circles inside the recycle sign with the arrows, pointing to the next number in the sequence, with the correct inequality sign or equal sign to make the...

Young scholars explore geometry by participating in a shape rotation experiment. In this symmetry lesson, students identify the term symmetry and a list of other geometry vocabulary. Young scholars analyze shapes as they are turned 90...

Sixth graders use centimeter cubes to build structures and then compare and contrast the patterns they see.

Learners are read a book about aboriginal women. They compare and contrast a few items out of the book. They examine their families and discuss them with the class.

Learners investigate what the purchasing of a car entails. They explore car criteria and financing options.

Young scholars investigate how pollution is a global issue. They locate the countries affected by radiation from Chernobyl, sequence the progress of radiation transport from Chernobyl and plot the pollution points on a world map, and...

Track down the Cyberchase episode that this lesson is associated with. Using a worksheet that is embedded in the plan, learners must find the next two numbers and shapes (a double pattern). Once these have been discovered, pupils try...

Students explore patterns, identify patterns, and complete a variety of patterns. They view and discuss an online video and identify the different patterns from the film, then using a hundreds grid create an original pattern using their...

These four lesson plans build algebra skills for working with numbers in exponential form and for examining triangles. Be aware that in the text, scientific notation is referred to as index notation and the laws of exponents as the laws...

Using a 100s chart or a number line with a pointer, work with your class to count up to 100 by ones and tens. As a part of daily instruction, prompt your kindergartners to chant count from 1 to 30. Move on to 1 to 50, and then from 1 to...