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Water: The Math Link ActivityWater: The Math Link Activity
Publisher
Baylor College
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Grade
1st - 4th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
30 mins
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Year
2010
Activity

Water: The Math Link

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This Water: The Math Link activity also includes:
  • Mystery of the Muddled Marsh
  • The Reading Link
  • The Science of Water - Teacher's Guide
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Make a splash with a math skills resource! Starring characters from the children's story Mystery of the Muddled Marsh, several worksheets create interdisciplinary connections between science, language arts, and math. They cover a wide range of topics, including addition and subtraction of one and two digit numbers, making and analyzing bar graphs, and identifying lines of symmetry. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

addition, bar graphs, graphs, number order, numbers, subtraction

Additional Tags

number sequence, ordering numbers, symmetry, addition, subtraction, bar graph, math

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide the sheets as an option for early finishers, or supplement them into the standard math curriculum

Classroom Considerations

  • A free copy of Mystery of Muddled Marsh is available online

Pros

  • Includes examples and fill-in-the-blank numbers sentences
  • Uses a children's story to engage learners and provide a meaningful context for applying math skills

Cons

  • None

Common Core

1.OA.A.1 1.OA.B.4 1.OA.C.6 1.OA.D.8 1.NBT.C.4 2.OA.A.1 2.OA.B.2 2.NBT.B.5 2.MD.D.10 3.NBT.A.2 3.MD.B.3 4.NBT.B.4

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