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Conjectures and Conclusions
Students draw conclusions and make conjectures given a specific scenario. In this geometry lesson, students model real life scenarios using properties of triangles. They model number facts and explain why the outcome is what it is.
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Balancing
Students use a balance to complete subtraction problems and weigh out the items they take away. In this subtraction lesson plan, students use a pan balance and record their equations.
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Extending Pattern Understandings
Learners use shapes and manipulatives to demonstrate patterns. In this patterns lesson plan, students also break up patterns to identify a pattern unit.
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Add & Subtract Fractions w/Unlike Denominators, 2
Learners use several examples to create a method for adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. They present these methods to the class and then practice applying methods to sample problems.
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Estimation Investigation
Students view an interactive video to explore the concepts of estimation. They work cooperatively to measure, make comparisons, make predictions, and verify results.
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Understanding Radios
Fifth graders explore ratios. Using models and real-world scenarios, they complete tables and generate comparisons. Pupils demonstrate multiple ways of writing ratios and describe the differences between ratios.
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Can you Find the Expression
Learners collect data from measurements and weights for this experiment. In this algebra lesson, students analyze graphs they create form their data to find the expression representing the data. They label which graph provided the best...
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Grade 2: Spinning Sums
Second graders collect data by spinning two spinners and creating sums, organize the data, and make conclusions from the data. Each students makes a spinner. They spin and record the number of the section each time. Students work in...
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Patterns with Decimals
Fifth graders are given a set of manipulatives to use to develop patterns. In groups, they follow the directions to determine which blocks go with which pattern and put them into the correct sequence. To end the lesson, they complete a...
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Charting and Graphing Sales
Students analyze graphs, charts and tables. For this data analysis lesson, students practice creating and analyzing charts, graphs and tables corresponding to sales and surveys. This lesson uses data relevant to students and includes...
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Number Patterns
Second graders identify number patterns. In this number lesson plan, 2nd graders find the rule or pattern in a group of numbers and continue the pattern using the rule. They create their own number pattern by making their own rule.
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Numeracy Lesson Plan: Reception
Students examine number sense by participating in identification activities. In this number value lesson, students practice counting from 1-10, identifying number flash cards, reading clocks and multiplying basic numbers. Students answer...
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Battle to the Death: Adding Integers
Young scholars explore the concept of adding integers. In this adding integers lesson, students simulate the battle of the 300 spartans at Thermopylae. Young scholars use colored game pieces to represent positive and negative...
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Which Bag is Which?
Students explore number sense by completing a statistical analysis game in class. In this data graphing lesson, students utilize visual references such as colored cubes and tiles to map out the results of an experiment outcome such as a...
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Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
Students gain practice reading coordinates and plotting points by participating in the Coordinates! Game. They demonstrate and test their skills with graph paper and the Maze Game.
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How Tall Is That Flag Pole?
Students examine various triangles and discuss how similar triangles have sides that are proportional. They utilize an ancient Egyptian method to determine the height of a flagpole.
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Are You a Radical or Just a Square Root?
Fourth graders discover that the inverse of squaring is finding a square root. and that square roots are found in many formulas used in many disciplines. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan that gives them quite a bit of...
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Number Base
Eighth graders examine common number system bases that are used: decimal, binary, octa and hex. They create a presentation about one of the number systems using the internet to research the topic. They solve mathematical computations.
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Following Specs.
Learners utilyze a set number of DUPLO blocks to build a free-form construction project.
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Graphing Linear Inequalities
Eighth graders extend skills for representing and solving linear equations to linear inequalities. Lesson activities build understanding and skill by plotting ordered pairs of numbers that either satisfy or do not satisfy a given...
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Water - Planning for the Future
Students explore and examine the increases and/or decreases for water user groups: irrigation, municipal, manufacturing, steam electric power generation cooling, livestock, and mining. They utilize percentage changes during their...
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Parts of a Whole
Students recognize coins are worth a fraction of a dollar. They represent the value of different coins by shading in their equivalent fractional parts in the circle. They understand that fractions are part of a whole.
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To Be (Half) Or Not To Be (Half)
First graders demonstrate various ways to represent and verify a whole or set separated in two, three, or four equal parts. Using interlocking cubes, Students model a part of a whole or a part of a set. They use appropriate tools and...