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Getting Students to Understand Why Learning Mathematical Concepts is Important

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
You can give a fresh response to that perennial question "when will we ever use this, anyway."
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A Recipe for Success: Cooking with Your Class

For Teachers 1st - 6th
When you cook with your class, you build community while improving language arts and math skills.
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How Hot Is It?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice estimating temperatures. They practice in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
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Water Anyone?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders measure cups, quarts, and liters.
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Making the Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use a Horton Chart to identify relationships between numbers and make equivalent fractions and decimals. Scholars change a fraction to find the greatest common factor, find percents, and make equivalent decimals.
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Learning About Ratios: A Sandwich Study

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students gain a concrete introduction to the concept of ratios. They demonstrate the ability to create ratios using peanut butter and jelly. They, in groups, construct 6 different sandwiches using different amounts of each food.
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Thiebaud Cake Math: Elementary

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the American artist Wayne Thiebaud. They practice addition, subtraction, fractions, money problems, and classification problems by carefully examining his painting entitled Cakes. They create a bold cake painting.
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Expected Outcome (Probability)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice and determine expected values of experiments as well as distributions of experiments. They find the area of rectangles and circles and determine elementary probabilities. Probability exercises begin with quarters and...
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Calder's Balancing Acts

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students learn the vocabulary of contemporary sculpture and distinguish between abstract and realistic sculpture, mobile and stabile, biomorphic and geometric. They write equations using Calder's mobiles
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Messy Cookies

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explain the idea of a missing factor in an equation. They recognize, represent and solve mathematical situations using patterns and symbols.
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"Math Curse" by Jon Scieszka

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explain everyday uses of numbers and relationships of numbers.
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"Measuring Penny" by Loren Leedy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students increase awareness of the variety of ways available to measure.
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The Function Box

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore arithmetic and numerical patterns. After observing a teacher created function box, students describe a pattern and predict what will "come out" of the function box. They explore patterns such as geometric shapes,...
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Trading Game

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars listen to story about money or coins, and play game to help them solidify their understanding of money. Students focus specifically on coin value and calculating amounts of money up to fifty cents or above, depending on...
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Charting and Graphing Sales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze and represent weekly sales figures using tables, bar graphs, and pie charts. They draw conclusions using bar graphs and pie charts. Students are told that each day at school they have the option of buying or bringing a...
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Teaching Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils identify the coins and bills used in the United States. They write the amounts of each bill and coin and practicing counting different amounts. They follow a demonstration about how to count money as well.
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Fraction Comparison Study

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use the computer to complete comparison of fraction problems. In this comparing fractions worksheet, students learn to use the terms greater than, less than, and equal to.
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Puzzles With Partners

For Teachers K - 12th
Students work together to complete puzzles. They practice their critical thinking skills and cooperative learning. They share their puzzles once they are complete.
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Regroup in Multiplication

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this regrouping in multiplication practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Problem Solving: Reasonable Answers

For Students 4th - 7th
In this finding reasonable answers practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Exploring Literature and Weather through Chirps

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore and experience information about temperature changes by using crickets' chirps to calculate the temperature. The data is applied to formula and the temperatures are calculated.
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Spending Spree

For Teachers K - 4th
Students collect objects to use in a classroom store. In groups, they must place a value on each object and take turns spending their fake dollar in the store. They predict how much they can buy and use addition and subtraction to...
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Body Math

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students solve simple math computations while practice their throwing skills. They explore how to subtract, add,divide,and multiply, while playing a fun fitness oriented game.
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Flag Pole

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students determine the length of rope on a flagpole and the cost to replace the rope. They create their own real life math problems.

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