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Teach With Picture Books: One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
Author provides a summary, discussion questions, background information, pre-reading and after-reading questions, as well as extension ideas for math and language arts for the folk tale from India, One Grain of Rice.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: One Grain of Rice
A lesson plan to use with the book One Grain of Rice by Demi including an activity sheet to help young scholars work the math Rani used to trick the raja into giving rice to the village.
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Us Rice Producers: One Grain of Rice Study Guide
Study Guide explores the lessons to be learned from the folktale, One Grain of Rice. Although this story is from India, it has been passed from culture to culture. Students can identify the universal qualities of kindness, generosity,...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: One Grain of Rice Mathematical Project
This is the mathematical tale about Raja, one grain of rice, and how quickly it grows. It includes a mathematical project using a spreadsheet to examine exponential growth and a calculus-based extension that explores area under a curve.
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Rice Romp: Place Value Lesson Plan
Take a look at the mathematics involved in the story "One Grain of Rice". Included is a lesson plan, geared toward 2nd-grade math students, about place value. A link to a quiz on the story is included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Find a Pattern Using Children's Literature
Students use the problem-solving strategy of "find a pattern" to predict the number of grains of rice Rani (from the book, One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi) will receive after 30 days. Students use a spreadsheet to...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Sissa's Reward
On this one page website use a table to help you solve this problem about the chess board and grains of rice. The solution is available right on the website.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Vegetation in Europe, 1898
A map showing Vegetation in Europe as of 1898. "The great agricultural regions are (1) the northern lowland from the Atlantic eastward through southern Russia, and (2) the broad fertile valleys of the Danube, the Po, the Rhone, and the...