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Geometry Worksheets - Volume of Cylinders
In this online math worksheet, students determine the volume of cylinders given their dimensions. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific...
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Complementary Probability
In this probability worksheet, students solve complementary probability word problems with 4 problems in them. Students complete 2 problems.
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Independent Events Probability
In this online math worksheet, students consider a variety of scenarios involving probability. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific teaching...
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"Pigs Will Be Pigs" by Amy Axelrod
Students add, subtract, and multiply amounts of money.
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Probably Pistachio
First graders practice making logical predictions from information they are given.
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Division Cookies
Fifth graders demonstrate the concept of division through sharing concrete objects. They divide cookies into parts and recreate a whole by sharing their pieces with the group. Students request cookies during a small group actvity using I...
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Double Dipping
Fifth graders determine how many double scoop combinations they can make using 5 different ice cream flavors. Then they use Microsoft Publisher to create a brochure for their ice cream shop.
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The Hundred Penny Box
Students recognize the pattern established year after year with the special coin dated appropriately
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Graphs
Students listen to the book, TOPS AND BOTTOMS looking at different vegetables from the story that they have tried in class that week.
They then focus their attention on a graph called, "What is Your Favorite Vegetable?". They place a...
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"The King's Chessboard" by David Birch
Pupils determine how a counting pattern is created is the story. They estimate how much rice is given to the wise man.
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"A Grain of Rice" by Helena Clare Pittman
Students solve the problem that comes up in the story. They realize the explosive growth of the powers of 2.
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"How Many, How Much" by Shel Silverstein
Students decide on the reasonableness and relative magnitude of situations in their lives as Shel Silverstein did in the poem "How Many, How Much."
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Displaying the Data
Students gather facts about their parent's families through the completion of parent interview forms. Using tally marks, the data gathered is counted, transferred to graphs and used to create family timelines.
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Enhancing Writing Through Technology
Students participate in a class survey of their favorite activity to do in the snow and organize the results in a graph. They write a paragraph about the graph using language from a class-developed word web and include both an opening...
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Raquel's Radishes
Sixth graders develop a reasonable hypothesis for a fictional science fair investigation. 'Raquel' is going to grow radishes and test for the best way to nourish them. They create a bar graph and write conclusions.
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Bar Me In
Fourth graders watch a video about constructing bar graphs. They create their own graph and interpret it.
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Going with the Flow
Students survey each other and determine their common interests. They examine the use of algorithms by various websites that are used to develop networks of interest groups among users. They then design proposals for a social networking...
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Magazine Sales Talks
Students role-play to determine the best types of magazines that should be purchased for their media center. They create a sales presentation for a particular magazine in small groups. As they listen to each presentation they evaluate...
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Math/Technology: Measuring Objects
Third graders create Powerpoint templates of pictures they have taken. Using both standard and metrric measurement units, they describe what units of measurement they would use for each object. In the computer lab, they work in pairs to...
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Surveying New Territory
Students explore recent research linking economic status with student behavior. They design their own studies that investigate how different variables are related to student performance in particular subject areas.
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Delicious Graphing
Fourth graders sort trail mix by type and use that information to create different types of graphs for comparing.
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Ovals, Rectangles, Squares, and Triangles
Students identify geometrical shapes displayed in photographs of everyday objects in a metropolitan setting.
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"Math Curse" by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Students use estimation and measurement skills to make predictions and solve problems involving length.