Help Mary Find Her Way Home

Fifth graders locate points on a coordinate plane. Through lecture and observation, they discover the parts of the coordinate plane and how to plot an ordered pair. Students locate x and y values in an ordered pair.

Young conservationists enlist the aid of their classmates and family members in assessing and monitoring energy usage at school and at home. After studying forms of energy and energy transportation, class members learn how to read...

Use geometric shapes to identify patterns and deepen number sense with video four of this nine-part series. Looking at different configurations of square tiles, learners use tables to describe patterns with regard to both the number of...

Show young mathematicians an animated way to look at positive and negative numbers. The video relates the real-world use of money and temperature on vertical and horizontal number lines. It is a great introduction to the coordinate plane...

Start with a good understanding of the box and whisker plot before completing this activity. The resource focus is on the three measures of spread: range, interquartile range, and mean absolute deviation. A new concept in elementary...

Don't allow your youngsters to lose their way! Help learners understand the Cartesian plane using an interactive lesson. They use applets to learn how to plot points while receiving immediate feedback to help make the concept clear. 

Use area models as a strategy for solving problems involving finding the area of a rectangle. The definitions of rectangle and area are reviewed, along with the difference between perimeter and area. Then, two different problems are...

Your learners can find a probability, but what happens when there are multiple possibilities? This video introduces the idea of combining probabilities when there are different choices for the outcome. The examples focus on finding the...

What's the easiest way of finding the area of an irregular figure? Take it apart! Young mathematicians analyze strange shapes and find the areas of them using an interactive lesson. Fourth and final in a series, the two-day activity...