Illustrative Mathematics
Shape Sequence Search
Learning that size and orientation don't affect the classification of shapes is a big step for young mathematicians. Support children with developing this key understanding by looking at the array of shapes included in this resource. For...
Mathematics Vision Project
Geometric Figures
Logical thinking is at the forefront of this jam-packed lesson, with young mathematicians not only investigating geometric concepts but also how they "know what they know". Through each activity and worksheet, learners wrestle with...
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Worksheet for Pi
Who needs a pie-eating contest when you have a pi-ology game! Celebrate March 14th with a fun board game about pi and other geometric concepts. As learners answer questions about geometry, they move around the board to collect...
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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals
Students explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting lesson, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Students identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the next several...
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Incredible Integers!
There are three parts to this lesson on integers. In the first, learners explore positive and negative numbers on an actual painter's tape number line and by playing a "Hot Seat" game. In part two, they view a BrainPop video and work...
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Proving that You Have Found the Minimum
Tenth graders pretend to set up an ice cream shop in a make believe town of shapes. For this geometry lesson, 10th graders work together to put up an ice cream stand in an ideal location and solve for the minimum given the shapes.
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The Ditionary Trick
In this secondary mathematics learning exercise, students investigate a riddle involving the use of the dictionary and subtraction of three digit numbers. The one page learning exercise contains one problems with an explanation of...
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TT Pies
For this worksheet about geometry, students learn about circumference. Students are required to find circumference of pies in this worksheet. There are eight problems in this worksheet. As a bonus students are asked to find the radius of...
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Place Value Chocolates
In this place value activity, students see 4 digit numbers in chocolates that they match to the clues in the chocolate box. Students complete 10 matches.
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Rita's Ice Problem
In this algebra worksheet, 11th graders calculate how many different choices they can create making their icy. The have a choice of 26 different flavors of ice and 5 different flavors of ice cream. There is a solution to this problem.
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Symmetry and Tangrams
Sixth graders build figures out of tangrams. In this symmetry instructional activity, 6th graders view tangrams and identify the polygons included in them. Students divide into groups, identify their tangram pieces, define the lines of...
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Linear Equations
In this algebra activity, 11th graders solve linear equations and rewrite them in the form y=mx + b. They graph the equations using the slope and y-intercept. There are 22 questions with an answer key.
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Using the Overhead and Algebra to Correctly Guess the Number
In this questing numbers learning exercise, students use algebra equations to discover how the teacher correctly chooses the students' numbers each and every-time. A pencil, key, stamp, yarn, and overhead are needed for this activity.
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Equation Hangman
In this algebra worksheet, students play a game of hangman using equations. They guess the operation symbol or the digit used. If it s a repeated digit or symbol, then the student is closer to being "hung".
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Guess My Rule
In this algebra worksheet, 9th graders are given the x value of an equation and they must figure out the y value. This assignment is meant for alone time and not group work. There is an answer key.
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Pond Theme Unit
In this pond theme worksheet students research facts on pond life. Kids complete comprehension questions, crosswords, word search, and math puzzles. Students write a short report.
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Energy Resources
In this energy resources worksheet, students complete 12 questions in the format of puzzles, teasers, and twisters. Examples include a modified cryptoquip and pictogram.
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Exploring Jupiter: Galileo Curriculum Module Issue One
In this exploring Jupiter: Galileo Curriculum Module issue one worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle that tests their knowledge of Jupiter; their are 11 links to other worksheets to explore the planet.
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Back to School Crossword
In this language arts worksheet, students read 43 clues pertaining to school and fit the answers into a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
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Eleven
Students read an excerpt from the book Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff. They answer provided questions for group discussion along themes such as family, belonging, and anger. Assignment suggestions included for math, social studies,...
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Plate Tectonics: Kindergarten Lesson Plans and Activities
This unit focuses primarily on plate tectonics and plate boundaries surrounding continents. It contains pre- and post-lab sections that walk young geologists through plate movements in order to visualize what's going on inside Earth.
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Hazards: Kindergarten Lesson Plans and Activities
The last unit in the series allows kindergarteners to see the dangers and hazards associated with each of the natural disasters learned so far in the series—earthquakes and volcanoes. They listen to sounds associated with the...
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Volcanoes: Kindergarten Lesson Plans and Activities
In the pre-lab, kindergarteners mimic the movements of the eruption of a volcano and discover various volcanoes around the United States. Then, pupils sort different types of volcanic rocks in the lab before learning how volcanoes grow...
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Second Servings
Second graders understand the appropriate sizes for food portions. In this food groups lesson plan, 2nd graders create and measure a meal using correct portion sizes and correct measurements.