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Curated OER

Understanding Place Value

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study place value. After forming teams, they play a game called, "Who Can Line Up the Number." Students observe numbers in expanded form and place representative digits in the correct order.
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Curated OER

Why Would I Owe My Soul to the Company Store?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders listen to "Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford and discuss what it means to owe one's soul to a store. In this mathematics lesson, 6th graders determine what a miner's income was minus his expenses graphing findings in a...
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Curated OER

Meet the Neighbors: Planets Around Nearby Stars

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars explain why a transiting planet causes a periodic dimming in the light from its parent star. They determine the radius of a planet, and its orbital distance, by analyzing data and manipulating equations. Students compare...
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Curated OER

Patterns to the Rescue

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners watch the Cyberchase episode, "The Poddleville Case" and play online games to examine how patterns are sequences that repeat or change in an orderly way. The lesson culminates with students creating their own patterns to use in...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Algebra: Creating Equations From Word Problems

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
A video, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a short quiz on strategies for solving a word problem in an organized way using algebraic thinking.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Algebra: Adding and Subtracting Equations

For Students 5th
Sing a song, practice step by step, and then assess your knowledge of adding and subtracting equations.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Algebra: Order of Operations

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Sing a song, practice step by step, and assess your knowledge of order of operations with this interactive lesson.

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