Illustrative Mathematics
Making Cookies
Hooray for chocolate chip cookies! Ask your mathematicians to triple a chocolate chip cookie recipe and then reduce the recipe by one-fourth. Your class may need two days to complete, tripling the recipe the first day and reducing the...
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Fractions and Recipes
Learners, working with their parents in real world situations, calculate to complete three word problems associated with multiplying and dividing fractions.
Illustrative Mathematics
Sore Throats, Variation 2
What does math have to do with a sore throat? When you mix water and salt you have a great review of how to represent proportional relationships by an equation or graph. Here the proportions of the mixtures may be different, but the...
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Best lesson in the whole world!
Students study the concept of fraction using mathematical reasoning. For this problem solving fraction lesson, students use various methods to explain their reasoning in solving fractions. Students use a number of different prompts to...
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Get My Point!
Here is one of the better lessons I've come across on how to teach fractions and decimals. This lesson plan does a great job of showing how these two mathematical representations of numbers are interrelated. Some excellent websites,...
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Word Problem Practice Workbook
Need worksheets that challenge your middle schoolers to apply their understanding of math? Problem solved! From integers, fractions, and percents, to algebra, geometry, and probability, over 100 pages of word problem worksheets are...
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Tag It and Bag It: Archeology Lab Lesson
Seventh graders practice analyzing, collecting and categorizing artifacts. Using charts, they organize and interpret information about the artifacts they classified. They work together to create a graph to represent class totals and...