What Temperature Is It?

What better way to celebrate students' birthdays than by creating original math problems? In this open ended challenge, young mathematicians must make numerical expressions using parentheses, exponents, and three other operations that...

The story of Ruby Bridges and the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education are fantastic tools for discussing the concept of separate but equal. Kids tackle some big questions about what is fair, what is civil, and what rights or laws...

Which is colder -12 or -18? Temperature is natural real-world application of ordering rational numbers. It's also fun to talk about the lowest recorded temperature on Earth. Take the time to discuss this inquiry with your class. 

Sometimes what seems like the easiest problem is really the most difficult. Your class is first going to reach for their calculators, but will realize the number is too large to evaluate. Now what? This is where the fun and the logical...

Take down that digital clock! Scholars practice reading an analog clock face with the minute hand on various quarter-hour increments. They write the correct time below nine clocks, each of which have the hour hand in green and the minute...

Learners calculate the time difference between Beijing, China and their local community. They discuss how time difference affects intercultural communication.

In this telling time learning exercise, students look at each clock and write the correct time on the line below it. There are 9 clocks on this page.

Fourth graders discuss events leading to Revolutionary War.  In this what war is this lesson, 4th graders view images from the war and discuss how it shaped our future as a Country.

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...

Students work in groups to make accurate measurements. For this area and perimeter measurement lesson, the student groups determine what they will measure and what tools they will need, then find the accurate measurement or area,...