Math Stories Teacher Resources

How did South African apartheid affect the ability of people of color to increase their human capital? Here is a rich lesson in which learners come to understand the relationship between investment in human capital and income, while also...

Students utilize newspapers as a resource to complete various tasks. They read articles, write summaries, investigate the classified section, write commercials, and circle spelling words.

For this cultural differences reading worksheet, students read a short story. Students answer 5 questions about the events which are set in Australia.

Eleventh graders investigate the practice of child labor as found in the history of the United States. The teacher reads the class a story from the year of 1914. This creates context for the activity and then students answer teacher...

Students discover the literary genre of biographies.  For this creative writing lesson, students write about their own life experiences and personal stories.  Students create a poster about their lives, a biographical collage. 

Students use the book, The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze, to explore spending, collecting, opportunity cost, saving, and speculating.

Students read and discuss the different animals in The Mitten book and then try to make mittens that are alike.

Students create a supersized spider web using yarn. They weave the yarn over and under an existing web to create a new design.