Guess My Piece -working with Legos

Build upon your class's understanding of fractions with a lesson designed around Lego. Several prompts encourage kids to find different ways to represent various fractions, and to find how many smaller blocks they will need to cover...

Make a game out of solving equations. This particular activity works well for pairs of learners. Follow the instructions to have player one pick a number and player two verbally give an equation. Participants need to make sense of a...

The love most preteens have for candy will outweigh their suspicions of fraction arithmetic in a fun problem set and its supporting work. Tasked with helping a fellow student divide a candy bar stash, learners manipulate fractions...

Put your learners' decimal skills to the test with these five word problems. With space for students to write their work, the word problems contain addition and multiplication problems with money and measurement units. Use this resource...

Turn young learners into pattern detectives with this fun hands-on activity. Using the included set of cards showing different block towers, children replicate each pattern with their own manipulatives while attempting identify...

How can you find the solution to an addition or subtraction problem by guessing? Practice the guess-and-check strategy with a fun math activity based on Ms. Squid's ink mess on the homework. Kids determine which number is covered by the...

Connecting math to furniture building comes in handy when the dimensions change and the cost of each piece needs to reflect the higher cost. Starting with a drawing of given quadrilaterals, learners calculate the original area and then...

Explore the concept of work with your class, using bottles, water, and corks to calculate work, while using the formula work = rate x time. Students conduct multiple experiments, timing how long it takes for water to drain out of the...

Rows and rows of data may look overwhelming, but they are actually very helpful. A math lesson introduces matrices as a way to store and display data. Pupils take gathered data and organize it in a matrix, so they can easily access...

Explore the geometry of treasure hunting! Learners use geometry to design a treasure recovery strategy. The objective is to create a design that minimizes the amount of work required. Budding mathematicians use properties of triangles as...