Adding Note Values

Here is a lesson that will help you meet seventh grade math Common Core skills standards. Learners work in collaborative groups to solve a real-world scenario using the subtraction of rational numbers. They jigsaw into other groups and...

How can you add two numbers and arrive at zero? Use negative integers! Assign each group a different problem to solve as a team. The lesson plan says to have them use Geometer's Sketchpad® to check their answers, but if you do not have...

This highly personalized activity puts the names of the learners in the center of the math investigation. As each person calculates their own name value based on a given code, they get practice in algorithms and in estimating square...

Classroom and studio music instructors will find this packet of 10 transparencies of major value. Images of treble and bass clefs, notes and rests, note values, time signatures, and music language are included. Nothing minor about this...

The goal of studying is to retain information, right? This resource takes review into the 21st century using Inspiration Software. Although specifically designed for this program, the visuals and steps here offer great ideas...

You can't evaluate an irrational root expression without a calculator—or can you? Scholars estimate the value of roots within an expression to approximate the value of the expression. Expressions include a mix of square roots and whole...

Define, simplify, add, and subtract polynomials. Identify the degrees of a polynomial. Determine if a polynomial is a monomial, a binomial, or a trinomial. Then look at simplifying a polynomial by combining the coefficient values of like...

In a base ten number system, knowing the complements of ten is a huge help when learning addition with larger numbers. The third video is this series models how these special pairs of numbers can be used along with expanded notation to...

Students discover the relationship between musical rhythms and fractions. They add musical notes together to produce fractions and create addition and subtraction problems with musical notes. Students complete worksheets and create their...

Third graders work with money values and making purchases. In this money lesson plan, 3rd graders listen to Donna Guthrie's book, Real World Math: Money and Other Numbers In Your Life. They make money cookies either with a recipe or with...