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Better Lesson: Why Do We Need an Order of Operations?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Why do we need an Order of Operations? What is 5 + 3 x 4? What is 3 x 4 + 5? Students work through examples to get at these questions and work with the order of operations to simplify numerical expressions.
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Better Lesson: Mixed Operation Practice + Scholarships

For Teachers 6th Standards
Which operation should I use to solve this problem? How can I use bars to model what is going on? What are scholarships and how do I earn them? Students apply their knowledge of decimal operations to answer these questions.
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Better Lesson: Order of Operations

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders apply their knowledge of the order of operations to simplify numerical expressions for a second day.
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Better Lesson: Ordering Numbers to 30

For Teachers K Standards
Numbers don't stop at 20! We spend the last week or so of school looking at the numbers beyond 20. Today we do it by looking at the number line.
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Better Lesson: Change Unknown Word Problems With Number Lines

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders solve change unknown story problems using a number line. This lesson gives students a new strategy to attach change unknown word problems.
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Better Lesson: Missing Number Equations

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders will become more comfortable making sense of equations presented in missing answer (traditional) and missing number ( nontraditional) formats.
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Better Lesson: Target Number Game

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Playing a game for the order of operations engages students in math fact review and builds fluency.
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Better Lesson: The Double Number Line

For Teachers 6th Standards
The double number line will help students figure out problems that involve two quantities.
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Better Lesson: Introducing the Number Line

For Teachers 6th Standards
The number line is a tool 6th grade students will need throughout the year and this activity will allow students to explore and become familiar with it.
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Better Lesson: Hopping Up & Down the Number Line

For Teachers K Standards
SWBAT identify the subtraction and addition sign and understand their function by hopping a bunny up and down a number line.
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Johan Claeys

Math Abundance: A Representation of a Complex Number

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Includes a short summary on the representation of a complex number.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ns Operations on the Number Line

For Teachers 7th Standards
A number line is shown below. The numbers $0$ and $1$ are marked on the line, as are two other numbers $a$ and $b$. Aligns with 7.NS.A.1.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 5.md,oa You Can Multiply Three Numbers in Any Order

For Teachers 5th Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to use the volume of a rectangular prism to see why you can multiply three numbers in any order you want and still get the same result. Aligns with 5.OA.A and 5.MD.C.5.
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Better Lesson: Making a Ten

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Making ten is one of the foundational strategies for developing flexible numerical thinking, accuracy, and efficiency.
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Better Lesson: More Than Two Numbers

For Teachers 2nd Standards
The big idea of this lesson is that three (or more) numbers can be grouped together and added. The order of this grouping doesn't matter.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Adding Tens to a 2 Digit Number [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Students will flip two cards over and determine the sum. Base ten blocks could be used for additional help.
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Better Lesson: Introducing a Number Line

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT place numerals in order from least to greatest on a number line.
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Fraction Operations

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This resource allows students to practice fraction computations. Students are able to select parameters that include the type of operation, numerator and denominator max and min, common denominator, and improper fraction. There are ten...
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Better Lesson: Larger Number Patterns

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders can find patterns in 4-digit numbers that will help them when counting over decades and centuries.
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Better Lesson: We Can Guess the Number

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Understanding place value is critical to the Common Core Standards for second grade. Without a concrete understanding, 2nd graders may not fully grasp the meaning of the digits.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Product of Non Zero Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this formative assessment task, learners are asked to explain how rational and irrational numbers differ and why the product of a non-zero rational number and an irrational number is irrational....
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Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this tutorial to learn what imaginary and complex numbers are, how to write them, and how to perform operations with them. Offers step-by-step examples, video explanations of the examples, and practice questions with answers.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Number Trains [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of the concepts of factors and multiples.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: "Zero In" Summing to Zero Fraction Game

For Students 9th - 10th
A card game where students compete to lay down cards - each containing fractions - which sum to zero. The game provides practice for the students who have a working knowledge of the operations with fractions.

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