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Number Line Math
Second graders use a number line to practice subtraction. In this subtraction instructional activity, 2nd graders use a number line to count backwards. Students participate in mad math activities and solve problems.
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Math Vocabulary Fill-In Puzzle
For this math vocabulary puzzle, students use a set of definition clues given to solve a crossword puzzle. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Shopping for Savings
Fourth graders calculate savings and identify the best value items from a list of products. They rotate through five studying stations, completing various math activities involving calculators and solving problems related to shopping...
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A Fraction of the Possibilities
Students review the conversion of fractions to decimals, develop strategies to compare fractions perform complex calculations using ratio techniques similar to the construction of fractions.
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Hamburger Lesson
Students examine fractions in this lesson. They practice with how to reduce and perform operations on fractions.
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Cooking With Cuisinaires
Second graders explore fraction with Cuisenaire Rods. For this fraction lesson, 2nd graders recieve "recipe" cards for adding fractions. After practicing, students create their own cards then exchange with each other to...
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The "Heart" of the Problem
Students create an exercise and nutrition program. For this interdisciplinary lesson, students use calculations of exercises plus their corresponding effects on the body and nutritional values of food to derive a health plan. Students...
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Checking Equivalence
Students solve equations. In this calculus lesson, students compare equations and identify equivalencies. They compare and approximate fractions and decimals.
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M&Ms; Line Plots and Graphing
Students, using small individual bags of M&Ms, engage in activities including; estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median, mode, fractions, percentage, and averaging.
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Crispy Cookie Class Fundraiser
Seventh graders see the relationship of math and the real world application by manufacturing a product for making a profit. They create a food product from a recipe, record their sales and analyze and report their gross profit.
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What Are My Chances?
Students calculate probability. In this lesson on probability, students use given data to calculate to chances of a given event occurring. Many of the calculations in this lesson are applicable to daily life.
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Let's Take a Trip!
Sixth graders plan a trip for a family of four choosing their travel plan by studying maps to decide upon a route and visiting Websites to get airline and travel schedules. They use ratios and proportions as well as converting fractions...
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Are You 100%?
Students use decimals, fractions, and percents to solve problems in a real world setting.
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Fraction Bar
Computing class members encounter use a digital learning tool called The Fraction Bar to multiply fractions with whole numbers. They do so by finding a given fraction of a number either on a number line or by calculating the answer with...
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Perimeter
In this perimeter worksheet, students calculate the perimeter of rectangles. This one-page worksheet contains 6 perimeter problems.
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Triangular Numbers
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders calculate the total triangular number, which-is equal to all the dots it takes to make a triangle. There are 8 different questions asking you to find the triangular number for different triangles.
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Fashion Sense and Dollar Wise
Learners work in groups to show understanding of the relationship between fractions, decimals, percentages, and the application of ratios and proportions. In this decimals, fractions, and percents lesson, students use real life consumer...
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Making Change
Second graders explore how to incorporate a new type of technology, the cash register and/or a calculator, as a motivational tool for solving real life problems. They practice estimating money and counting back change from $20.00.
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ACC Basketball Statistics
Middle schoolers use math skills and create a spreadsheet. In this statistics and computer skills lesson, students gather ACC basketball statistics, convert fractions to decimals and then percents. Middle schoolers use the gathered...
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How Fast Is Your Car?
Eighth graders discover the relationship between speed, distance, and time. They calculate speed and represent their data graphically. They, in groups, design a ramp for their matchbox car. The goal is to see who's ramp produces the...
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A Newspaper?
Sixth graders use newspapers to investigate fractions. They work in small groups to categorize articles, measure them with the grid transparency, and calculate the values represented. Afterward, they write a reflective essay on the role...
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Percentages
In this percentages instructional activity, students complete percentage word problems dealing with money, division, fractions, and more. Students complete 54 problems.
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Grade 6: Exploring c/d = pi
Introduce your math class to the perimeter of a circle. Teach them that pi describes the relationship between the circumference and the diameter. As a hands-on investigation, pairs or small groups use string to compare these two values...
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Epidemic Proportions
Students research epidemics that have devastated world population at various points in history. They share and calculate statistics obtained in their research and develop graphs comparing and contrasting how different epidemics affect...