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Points on a Line
Get your learners up and moving, all while reviewing numbers on the number line! For this activity, learners are grouped in teams outdoors. The teacher will have already created number lines on the ground (with chalk, tape, etc.), and...
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Color By Number
Math pages that involve coloring are fun and can help children differentiate patterns or specific information. They compute single-digit addition problems that result in sums from 10 to 15. Odd numbers are colored red and even...
August House
The Drum
Take a journey to India with a read aloud of The Drum: A Folktale from India by Rob Cleveland. Make connections to the story's theme by building and practicing drums, role playing story characters, and practicing skills in phonics, math,...
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Challenge Your Middle Schoolers with Mathematical Strategy Games!
Help learners develop the ability to think logically and mathematically, in a really fun and engaging way.
DK Publishing
Learning 6 - Write the Number
Have crumpets with the queen! Kindergartners count the number of crumpets on each plate - all add up to six - and write the correct number in the space provided. They then copy a dominoes pattern for different ways to add up to six, and...
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Primary Sources and Protagonists: A Native American Literature Unit
Introduce your middle schoolers to the lives of past Native Americans. First, learners work together to put photographs in a sequence. Then, using their sequence, they create stories to share with the whole class. No matter how old your...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...
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Multiples of 6 #2
Count by six with these helpful activities. After completing number sequences and multiplication problems from the six times table, third graders solve problems that are written out at the bottom of the page. An excellent way to work on...
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Number Patterns in Pascal's Triangle
Students reproduce the first eleven rows of Pascal's Triangle by recalling number patterns. In this math lesson, students are given a series of patterns to work with in order to reproduce Pascal's Triangle. Students are...
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Counting by 3s- Random
In this counting by 3s instructional activity, students solve 5 problems in which a chart with a series of numbers is completed by skip counting by 3s. The series of numbers begin with random numbers anywhere between 3 and 100.
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Recognize, create and Record Simple Repeating Patterns
Students analyze, create, and record repeating patterns. In this geometry lesson, students create shapes using patterns and keep track of the different shapes. They incorporate transformation and reflections into their patterns.
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Building Shapes From Numbers
Students experience how to illustrate some of the many connections between number and geometry. Through this 2-3 day focus on square numbers and triangular numbers, students make connections among mathematical topics.
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Nature By Numbers
Students study the concept of numbers found in the natural world. They explore the wonder and necessity of the diversity of different plants and discover that plants have numbers hidden in them everywhere. They survey where they might...
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Dividing by Negative Powers of Ten (B): Single-Digit Facts
Students are prompted to divide single digit numbers by negative powers of ten in this straightforward worksheet. Prompted to divide ten numbers by 1, .1, .01, .001, and .0001, students can develop a pattern which will ease the...
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Quilting with Middle School Students: Using Proportionality to Develop Quilt Designs
Students use quilt patterns to illustrate ratios. In this fractions lesson, students color quilt patterns using given fractions and ratios of colors. A finished "quilt" is assembled from the work of the students. This is an...
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Dividing by Negative Powers of Ten (C): Single-Digit Facts
Test your students' division skills with this patterned worksheet, where students are given 10 single-digit numbers which they are to divide by 1, .1, .01, .001, .0001. Once the procedure is understood, the answers are easy to calculate.
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Multiplying with Packages and Letters
Students explore multiplication. In this multiplication problem solving instructional activity, students view a video clip which demonstrates loading a truck with packages. Students fill in a blank array to represent 1"X 2" and the...
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Writing Variable Expressions for Physical Models
Explore the concept of writing variable expressions by examining the similarities between expressions with numbers and expressions with variables. Emerging mathematicians determine rules for sequences and patterns before writing a rule...
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Visuals Patterns in Pascal's Triangle
Students examine Pascal's Triangle and attempt construct it on their own. In this visual patterns instructional activity students explore patterns that exist in Pascal's triangle.
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Exploring Number Patterns
Seventh graders recognize number patterns. As a class, 7th graders discuss strategies for solving number patterns. Given a pattern, they determine the missing terms. They complete a pattern worksheet.
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Patterns
Students explore the concept of linear patterns by moving into different body poses. They also use MathKeys software to create linear patterns across a computer screen. In groups of three they take turns adding to the pattern.
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Division Patterns
Pupils investigate the concept of division and how numbers fit into specific patterns while practicing the skills finding equivalent fractions. They practice solving different division sentences while answering questions asked during...
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It's All in the Pattern
Here is a fantastic, nine-page, multi-session lesson plan on the Zia Sun Symbol (found on the New Mexico state flag), and the seasons of the Earth. Everything you need to implement the lesson is here, and the many engaging activities are...
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Patterns and Linear Functions
Learners investigate the concept of a linear function. They use geoboards to find the interior angle sums. The sum of the angles is found to equal 180 degrees. Students also investigate quadrilaterals.