Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: One Variable Equations: How Much Did He Read?

For Students 6th - 8th
Visualize a word problem in multiple ways to develop your problem solving skills. This video focuses on converting a problem with fractions into a one-variable equation and alternately modeling it using unit blocks.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Cool Kool Aid Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Seventh grade students have had wide-ranging experiences with fractions and operations on fractions, but ratios and rates may be new concepts for them. This activity introduces students to the idea of rates via a familiar and tangible...
Lesson Plan
University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Cindy's Cats [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This task challenges a student to use knowledge of fractions to solve one and multi-step problems with fractions.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Add and Subtract Fractions Word Problems

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Practice solving fraction addition and subtraction word problems. The fractions in these problems have unlike denominators. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Add and Subtract Fractions: Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this exercise, students practice adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Interactive
Quia

Ixl Learning: Divide Fractions by Whole Numbers Using Models

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Practice dividing fractions by whole numbers with numbers using models.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Fractions as Division Word Problems

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Practice word problems that involve using the fraction bar as division. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Activity
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Math 116 Lecture Notes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Richland Community College provides the detailed lecture notes to a college algebra course, complete with equations and definitions. Content ranges from "functions and their graphs" to "conics and parametric equations."
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Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 12: Exponential Functions, Equations, Expressions and Radicals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson 2 of 4 for Passport to Advanced Math. Students will build quadratic and exponential functions that model a given context; solve radical equations; work with rational expressions, including fractions with a variable in the...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Making Hot Cocoa, Variation 1

For Teachers 6th
In this task, 6th graders solve a fraction division problem by drawing a picture, interpreting it, identifying an equation that represents the problem, and verifying that the equation gives the same answer as the picture. Aligns with...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Making Hot Cocoa, Variation 2

For Teachers 6th
In this task, 6th graders solve a fraction division problem by drawing a picture, interpreting it, identifying an equation that represents the problem, and verifying that the equation gives the same answer as the picture. Aligns with...
Handout
Help Algebra

Help algebra.com: Decimals

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Keeping in mind that decimals are really fractions, this site shows you how to convert decimals and work with them in solving equations.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns How Many Containers in 1 Cup/cups in 1 Container?

For Teachers 6th
In this task, 6th graders solve two fraction division problems by drawing pictures, interpreting them, identifying equations that represent each problem, and verifying that the equations give the same answers as the pictures. Aligns with...
Activity
Other

Mathpower: Elementary Algebra Assignments

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Test your algebra aptitude at this colorful website filled with algebra assignments for upper elementary and middle school students. Assignments explore algebra concepts using addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, division,...