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Predicting Pumpkins
If you want more pumpkin seeds, you should get a bigger pumpkin—right? Young harvesters use estimation skills to make a hypothesis about how many seeds they will find in a pumpkin before examining the real number inside.
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Sums of Geometric Series
Geometric series either get bigger or approach a single number. So, how do you know which it is? An interactive presents three different geometric series with varying common ratios. With the aid of patterns, pupils determine values of r...
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Investigation: Area of Geometric Shapes
Fourth graders explore geometry by utilizing pattern blocks. In this pattern activity, 4th graders analyze two separate pattern block shapes and discuss which one is bigger and smaller. Students collaborate in small groups to create...
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Easy Worksheet: Ordering Fractions
In this ordering fractions worksheet, middle schoolers solve 4 short answer problems. Students order positive and negative rational number from least to greatest. Middle schoolers find common denominators to determine if a fraction is...
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Do Bigger Pumpkins Always Have More Seeds Than Smaller Pumpkins?
Second graders, in groups, predict the weight of a pumpkin and the number of seeds it might have. Then they find and record the actual weight and actual number of seeds. They compare and contrast the size of the pumpkin to the number of...
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Bigger, Smaller, Taller, Shorter
In this determining size worksheet, students identify pictures of birds and alligators as bigger, smaller, taller or shorter. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Scale Factors
Is it bigger, or is it smaller—or maybe it's the same size? Individuals learn to describe enlargements and reductions and quantify the result. Lesson five in the series connects the creation of a dilated image to the result. Pupils...
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What Size Is It?
The concept of size is taught in this comparitive meaning of words lesson. Learners discuss the comparative qualities of words such as small, smaller, smallest. They demonstrate their understanding by drawing a picture.
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Finding a Fraction of a Fraction
Teach your math class to determine the value of fractions. The group will explore how to break a fractional part into smaller pieces, which helps strengthen their understanding of the part/whole relationship of fractions. A written...
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Test Your Spelling Skills
In this spelling skills worksheet, students find the small words inside the bigger words by analyzing the words below. Students underline the smaller word to complete the 20 examples.
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Inequalities and Triangles
Students prove and apply theorems of triangle inequality and hinge theorem. For this geometry lesson, students will discuss which triangle is bigger and why. They will use theorems, such as Exterior Angle Inequality or the Pythagorean...
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Going Fishing
Students constructaA fishing game that reinforces number recognition,and some basic addition.They use foam sheets to make fish cutouts of different colors and with a addition problem on the bigger one's and the answers on the smaller one.
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Comparing Fractions
In this comparing fractions worksheet, learners compare fractions that contain 1 digit numbers and identify which is bigger. Students complete 10 problems.
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Comparing Fractions
In this comparing fractions worksheet, students compare fractions that contain 1 digit numbers and identify which is bigger. Students complete 10 problems.
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Spelling Skills
In this spelling worksheet, learners read a list of 20 words. Students underline the smaller word within each word. For example, learners underline the word broad in broadcast.
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Stone Soup
Sharing and cooperation are difficult skills for kindergartners to grasp. Using the story Stone Soup and a series of activities, kids learn about the benefits of working together, categorizing and comparing items, and eating healthy foods.
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Dilation
Tenth graders identidy and define various geometry terms, Students create exact replicas of a shape that is either smaller or larger than the original shape. Students prove that their entire shapes are larger or smaller in the same...
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Measuring With the Gingerbread Man
In this measurement learning exercise, students complete a 3 column graphic organizer where they list items smaller than. the same size as, and bigger than a picture of a gingerbread man.
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Comparisons 3
In this math comparisons worksheet, students compare 2 pairs of pictures in order to determine which in each pair is bigger and which in each pair is smaller.
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Part of it All
Students take a closer look at the organization of newspapers. In this journalism lesson plan, students take virtual tours of newspapers and complete a newspaper puzzle handout. Students then compare the layout of weekly rural newspapers...
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How Big Should My Picture Be?
Learners explore water color techniques. In this water color lesson, students examine how to size their drawings. Learners discover that water color painting works best on a smaller scale as they create an original piece of art.
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Inequalities
Develop an understanding of things that are not equal. The video demonstrates three types of questions involving inequalities as a review for the General Certificate of Secondary Education math assessment. Pupils work through the...
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Big and Small Geometric Shape Size Comparison
In this geometric size comparison worksheet, 1st graders look a the shapes in four sections on the page. They circle the smaller of the two shapes and draw a line under the bigger shape. They see triangles, rectangles, squares, and circles.
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Here's an Instant Activity for May 3, 2004
First graders use their visual skills to improve their spelling skills. In this spelling lesson, 1st graders read words and find smaller words within each example.