NTTI
Putting Together Ten
Groups explore sets of 10 items in two varieties (i.e. 3 white buttons and 7 black ones, or 5 bears and 5 bunnies). They brainstorm about their objects, write math sentences to represent what they have, and report their discoveries to...
CCSS Math Activities
Smarter Balanced Sample Items: High School Math – Claim 3
Communication is the key. A presentation provides 25 sample items for Claim 3, Communicating Reasoning, for the Smarter Balanced High School Math assessment. Items require pupils to answer the question and provide logical reasoning to...
Illustrative Mathematics
Field Day Scarcity
Introduce young mathematicians to concepts of financial literacy with this open-ended word problem. With seven dollars to spend during field day and given a list of available items and their prices, children must determine how they want...
Raytheon
Permutations and Combinations
For this permutations and combinations worksheet, middle schoolers complete word problems and pattern problems dealing with permutations and combinations. Students complete 14 problems total.
Curated OER
Combinations
In this probability worksheet, students use permutation and combination to calculate the number of outcomes. They differentiate between the two. There are 2 questions with an answer key.
Curated OER
Investigation - Staci's New Car
Sixth graders solve math combination problems. In this combination problem solving lesson plan, 6th graders participate in a teacher led session in which they use tree diagrams and organized lists to determine all of the possible...
Curated OER
Easy Worksheet: Combinations
In this combinations worksheet, students solve 4 short answer problems. Students determine the number of combinations possible to pick a given number of a item out of a total possible.
Curated OER
Counting Handout 2
For this counting method, students solve simple and compound probability problems. They determine the number of permutations and combinations that can be made under given circumstances. This two-page worksheet contains 23 problems. ...
Curated OER
Pizza Topping Combinations
Students brainstorm pizza toppings and determine the number of possible ways to order a pizza. In this algebra lesson, students analyze and investigate geometric patterns as they relate to the concept of a variable. Students then use a...
Curated OER
Nine Sigma Notation Problems
In this sigma notation worksheet, students find the value of nine problems containing sigma notation. The solutions are provided.
Curated OER
Easy Worksheet: Combinations and Permutations
In this combinations and permutations learning exercise, students solve 4 short answer problems. Students determine the various number of arrangements possible to arrange letters in a word or for three people to choose from five...
Fluence Learning
Writing an Argument: Persuasive Speeches to Students
Powerful orators make their messages compelling with a combination of factors. Learn how to be an inspirational speaker with a reading assessment activity that presents a list of persuasive speaking techniques, as well as two speeches...
Teach Engineering
Battle of the Beams
Make the strongest beam possible using taffy? Groups mold a taffy-water mixture into a beam and a reinforcing material of their choice. To finish the final installment of a two-part series, participants test its strength by adding...
Curated OER
Cyber Chow Combos
Using a worksheet that's embedded in the plan, elementary schoolers must come up with the most possible combinations of food they can order from the menu on the worksheet. The instructional activity is meant to be done independently by...
Noyce Foundation
Cereal
Find the best protein-packed cereal. The short assessment task covers equivalent and comparing ratios within a context. Pupils determine the cereal with the highest ratio of protein. A rubric helps teachers with point allotments for...
Curated OER
Pizza Toppings 2
Students explore possible combinations of items. They devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically. They examine using linear and quadratic patterns to solve combination problems. From a given...
Curated OER
One Good Turn Deserves Another
Young scholars make observations about shapes and 1-, 2-, and 3-dimensional objects. They conduct observations and make predictions regarding transformations of simple geometric shapes. They identify shapes that occur in household items.
Chymist
Batteries
Young scientists study the construction of a battery through experimentation. They engage in five experiments which combine to create a thorough study of the history of batteries beginning with a model of the first battery.
The Science Spot
Bikini Bottom Genetics 2
In this biology worksheet, students use the information given on genetics, Sponge Bob and other characters to complete each of the questions on the sheet. They write the phenotype for each stated trait. Students also determine the...
Curated OER
Investigation - Can You Guess My Favorite Color?
Second graders explore a bag of mixed pattern blocks. As a class they discuss different attributes of these shapes. In this math lesson, 2nd graders search to find shapes that are similar by placing shapes on top of one another to...
Curated OER
Putting It Together
Learners create number combinations. In this problem solving instructional activity, students participate in a classroom activity that requires them to create as many object combinations as possible and multiplication sentences that...
Curated OER
Letter Combination Fluency
Students explore language arts by participating in a word structure activity. In this phonics lesson, students utilize flash cards with specific letters on them which can be combined with other cards to create words. Students practice...
Curated OER
Introduce /ay/
Young scholars practice identifying the "ay" sound. In this sound fluency lesson, students view the two letters "ay" on the board and practice repeating the sound. Young scholars identify 12 other letter combination sounds that are...
Curated OER
What's For Lunch? A Combination Sensation!
Students combine different foods to make possible lunches and determine the specific combinations of lunches that can be made from a finite set of foods.