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Marking the Minutes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students mark seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc. on class timetable report to keep track of time spent on Uninterrupted Silent Reading.
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Smart Doubling

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use mental math in calculations involving addition and subtraction. They study doubles facts to work out addition problems mentally using part and or whole reasoning.
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Double or More

For Teachers K - 6th
Students practice cooking by following recipe instructions.  In this measuring lesson, students read food recipes and collect the materials needed to make one batch, then double the recipe to create twice as much food....
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Shopping Spree

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine currency by completing monetary equations.  In this economics lesson, 6th graders participate in a numbers experiment where they roll a die and earn money based on their roll.  Students compete for their...
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Eating on a Budget

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students are "given" $25.00 to spend at a restaurant. Using the Internet, they must "order" a complete 4 course meal while staying within their budget.
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Let's Share Equal Parts

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice creating parts of a whole by using educational software to illustrate their learning.
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Using Ion Exchange Chromatography to Separate Proteins

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore protein purification by separating a positively charged molecule, lysozyme, from a negatively charged molecule, albumin, at neutral pH using ion exchange chromatography.
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Beetle Wheels

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders link the development of skip-counting patterns to bars on a relationship graph. They also plot our skip-counting patterns on a hundred's board, counting by 2's and also by 4's.
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Time For Breakfast

For Teachers 3rd
This unit encourages students to assess the validity of a set of statements and then plan and carry out investigations to find out whether the statements are true. Students then carry out statistical investigations of their own.
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Rabbits

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review what they think doubling means and double numbers mentally, for example, 5, 12, 16. They share their solutions and discuss how they doubled. They work together on a problem that is beyond mental working and solve...
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My Dogs

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use the properties of multiplication to solve problems. They recall the basic multiplication facts as well as write and solve problems that involve whole numbers.
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Using Tens Frames for the Strategy of Bridging to Ten

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are given a problem. They are shown a fixed frame of 9 and students are asked to say where the six more should go without touching the tens frame. Students are invited to answer the question and show go they got the answer.
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Environmental Graphing

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students experiment with graphing. In this graphing introduction lesson, students complete four activities: 1) a bar graph based on class birthdays 2) an estimation graph of the raisins in raisin bread 3) another estimation example with...
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Hands On Math Lessons with Technology

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore a variety of math concepts. In this integrating technology lesson, students visit online webtools such as Max's Math Adventure, I Know That Math, Hands on Banking, and more.  A description of each website is provided.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 2

For Teachers 6th
How would you add 2 1/2 and 2/3? How would you find the difference between 2 1/2 and 2/3? Students continue to develop strategies for adding and subtracting fractions.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 1

For Teachers 6th
If Ashley ate 1/2 pizza, Tatyana ate 1/3 of a pizza, and Tiffany ate 5/8 of a pizza, how much pizza did they eat altogether? What's the smallest number of pizzas they ordered? How much was left? Students work to develop strategies for...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Egyptian Fractions

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
One goal of this task is to help students develop comfort and ease with adding fractions with unlike denominators. Another goal is to help them develop fraction number sense by having students decompose fractions. Aligns with 5.NF.A.1.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Lesson Plans: Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teachers, this is the place to come for fraction lesson plans if you teach elementary students. All the topics have a number of resources available from which to choose.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Making S'mores

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this instructional task is to motivate a discussion about adding fractions and the meaning of the common denominator. The different parts of the task have students moving back and forth between the abstract representation...
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NumberNut

Number Nut: Breaking Down Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Discover fractions in the world around us in this lesson plan that also examines how fractions are divided. Detailed examples and pictures presented to explain this concept along with key vocabulary. A brief introduction to problem...
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions

For Teachers 4th Standards
Understanding that when the total number of parts of a whole are the same, fractions can be added.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting With Fractions

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Students add and subtract fractions using a common denominator.
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Nearpod: Adding & Subtracting: Unlike Denominators

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders will learn how to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers using models and by finding common denominators.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 5.nf Do These Add Up?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This task addresses common errors that students make when adding fractions. Aligns with 5.NF.A.2.

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