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Illustrative Mathematics

Plastic Building Blocks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

Let's build a castle! Dennis and Cody have big plans, but do they have enough blocks between the two of them to accomplish their goal? A great context that requires students to add and compare mixed numbers. Encourage the use of pictures...

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Denton Independent School District

Pieces to the Puzzle Fraction Project

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards

Four polygons each have a fraction with unlike denominators printed on them. Creative math minds select several shapes to create a design with and then write and solve a math problem involving the addition of all of the fractions...

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Math & Science Connection

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards

Whether you're using a collection of Dr. Seuss books to teach basic math skills like counting, adding, and subtracting, or exploring the different states of matter by melting a crayon with a hairdryer, a series...

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Curated OER

Finding the Area of Polygons

For Teachers 3rd Standards

Third graders are exposed to finding the area of polygons by decomposing figures and recomposing them into rectangles. This strategy allows children to expand on their prior knowledge of constructing shapes by rearranging parts into...

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