For this lesson plan students use base ten blocks to explore place value.

Review expectations and then draft a final product for the application unit.

The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to compose and decompose polygons to make rectangles. The students will be shown a picture and are asked to count how many rectangles they see. Explanations and examples are...

Students will cut a square into four pieces, and then will put those pieces in an envelope for another student to put together. The purpose of this task is to give students a hands-on experience with composing and decomposing geometric...

The purpose of this task is for students to compose two-dimensional shapes to create a composite shape using tangram pieces. The teacher will read "Grandfather Tang's Story" and the students will use tangrams to compose the animals from...

In this task involving temperature conversions, students compose and solve functions. Unit conversion problems provide a rich source of examples for the composition of functions and for inverses. Aligns with F-BF.A.1.c and F-BF.B.4.a.

In this task, students analyze data about the number of students being infected during an influenza outbreak. The purpose of this problem is to have students compose functions using tables of values only. Aligns with F-BF.A.1.c.

For this task, students work through the steps and operations involved in the composition of an explicit quadratic function. The task assumes that the students are familiar with the process of completing the square. Aligns with F-BF.B.3...

For this task, students write expressions that describe the relationship between quantities. The task looks at the amount of gas produced by a given number of barrels of crude oil, the number of miles a vehicle can drive on a quantity of...

This task addresses an important issue about inverse functions. In this case, the function f is the inverse of the function g but g is not the inverse of f unless the domain of f is restricted. Aligns with F-BF.A.1.c.

The purpose of this task is for students to decompose a figure into rectangles and then find the total area by adding the area of all of its smaller, non-overlapping rectangles. Aligns with 3.MD.C.7.d.

This task asks students to compare the volumes of three vases that are different shapes - a cylinder, a cone, and a sphere - as well as one with a combination of shapes. They are then asked to create a vase with composite shapes, find...

Students will practice composing and decomposing numbers with this quick game. Show the student 6 counters. Ask the student to close his/her eyes. Hide some of the counters under a sheet of heavy paper. When the student opens his/her...

Learners will determine the "real worth" of a penny by analyzing the present worth of the various metals that are used to compose the penny. Aligns with N-Q.A.1.

This exercise helps students understand how volume in figured, even when two or more parts of a prism are not overlapping. There is a teacher view, with a description of the activity and commentary, and a student view, with just the...

Students will learn about teen numbers by understanding the base-ten structure of teen numbers. They will fill-in a 10-frame and a blank equation as they complete the activity. Worksheet included.

An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they research earthquakes that have taken place in Texas, and the risk of...