Imagine the lure of being offered a job at a secret site, working on a secret project, and earning higher wages! Such was the approach used to recruit African Americans to Hanford, Washington, one of several sites used to develop...

Fourth graders complete a worksheet that asks them to order operations within a mathematical expression. students evaluate the expressions in the correct order using mental math and paper. The results are recorded on the worksheet.

Students discuss the meaning of balance and how it applies to equations. After listening to a lecture, they practice solving equations with two orders of operation and doing whatever they do on one side to the other side as a class. To...

Students explore and implement the rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing negative integers. The rules for each of the operations are reviewed and applied to solve a variety of problems.

In this multi-step equations activity, 9th graders solve and complete 11 different problems that include applying several steps to complete each one. First, they determine what the operations have done to the variable and undo these...

Students play a math game which assesses their mastery of selecting the appropriate operation to solve specific problems.

Second graders discuss the reasons for rules after reading Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon. Connecting the need for rules to math, they play a game called What's My Rule? using spinners to apply operations to given numbers. Working in...

Students examine the energy conversions and simple machines are involved in the operation of a steam engine. They make a replica of a small steam engine.

For this solving linear equations worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 6 different types of problems. First, they maintain a balance on both sides of the equation so that each side remains equal. Then, students apply mathematical...

Fifth graders identify specific words in a sentence to solve the correct operation and write equations. In this writing equations lesson, 5th graders follow the teacher through several word problems on an overhead projector and isolate...

Students discuss recent police operation. In this pedophile ring bust instructional activity, students consider how to be safe when on the Internet and discuss recent article. The instructional activity includes a series of games,...

Seventh graders investigate the concepts realted to using the Order of Operations. They write an expository paragraph to prepare for the direct instruction of the order or sequence to simplify numerical expressions.

In this operations worksheet, students write a problem, fill in the PEMDAS table, and simplify any parenthesis first. Then they simplify any powers and perform multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction if necessary.

In this order of operations (i.e., addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) instructional activity, students solve 5 word problems demonstrating their understanding of the concept.

In this algebraic reasoning for grade 5 worksheet, 5th graders answer 10 multiple choice questions, not interactively, about equations and operations, with answers available online.

Students have fun with math. In this math skills instructional activity, students collaborate to solve the problems presented in this interactive instructional activity. The problems pertain to geometry, measurement, probability, number...

In this math operations instructional activity, students play a board game where they name the math operation of the square they land on. Students have 34 operations.

For this TAKS worksheet, 4th graders identify patterns, determine the best operation, and plot numbers on a number line. The three questions pertain to objectives covered on the Texas state test. This would be good bellwork.

In this math worksheet, middle schoolers simplify the expressions. They create new expressions converting words into variables. They also practice using the order of operations.

In this make 24 numbers worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 12 different sets of numbers that create numbers. First, they write 4 numbers from 1 to 9 and use the operations to create a number sentence that equals 24 for each set of...

In this online interactive math skills worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems regarding the properties of whole numbers and order of operations. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

For this mathematical operations (i.e., addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) worksheet, students solve 6 word problems demonstrating their understanding of the concept.

First graders, with partners, create and solve math problems using number and unifix cubes.

In this order of operations (i.e., addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) worksheet, learners solve 7 word problems demonstrating their understanding of the concept.