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Our Town Store
Students purchase items in their classroom store. In this money lesson students create a classroom store. The students have a given amount of money and have to decide if they have enough to purchase the items that they would like to.
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Planning My Vacation Online
Students use a variety of resources to decide on a vacation destination. They locate three points of interest, a hotel, and two restaurants at their destination.Students obtain driving directions for their trip, create a trip budget, and...
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Wheat Kernels Bar Graph
Third graders create a bar graph to record how many kernels were in a wheat stalk. They write in math journals two questions from interpreting the graph. They solve math problems from other students.
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Variation
In this variation worksheet, students interpret and organize data. They find the distance between points. Students use ratios to determine volume This six-page worksheet contains approximately 20 problems. Answers...
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Eating on a Budget
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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Words, Words, Words
Second graders choose estimation strategies in real-world problem situations and explain the choice. They work in groups of five using three different estimation methods to find out how many words are on a page of text.
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Charting Attendance Rate of Busch Gardens
Sixth graders, in groups, are given different parts of the whole project. They use information from Busch Gardens to explore line graphs, averages, and other math vocabulary.
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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Students research and chart the shortest course to circumnavigate the globe.
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Descriptive Writing
Students practice descriptive writing. In this unique writing lesson, students hear a story about a mitten. Then three grade levels come together to first, create a mitten on KidPix; second, describe the designed mitten; and third, try...
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Metrics
Young scholars discover the need for a universal measurement system. They practice using basic metric units in measuring distance and weight.
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How Much Liquid
In this science worksheet, students identify the amount of liquid that is present in a container and make a conversion for the five problems.
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Native North American Dog Breeds
In this trivia quiz, the information focuses on native North American dog breeds. Students respond to 10 multiple choice questions and submit answers electronically via this interactive website.
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Squirrel Challenge
Students utilize The Nature Park Adventure educational software program to Introduce Modelling, Including the Estimation of Angles.
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Milky Way Galaxy
Students simulate stars in the Milky Way Galaxy using newspaper prints. In this space science lesson, students compare the number of 'stars' on their page to familiar things. They calculate how many pages they need to have the same...
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Name That Phrase
Students identify the American language, how it has changed and effected culture, and become familiar with idioms. In this American language lesson, students study the eight parts of speech, identify literal and figurative speech, study...
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Corps of Discovery
Students assess their knowledge of the Corps of Discovery through a written pretest, follow the journey of Lewis and Clark on the internet, record data on events, dates, places, people, animals, distance traveled, and geographic...
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Tourist and Traveler Information
Students work with monetary exchange rates and the metric system as they simulate working to help tourists travel through Canada to Alaska.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Decimal Rounding to Estimate Sums and Differences
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Estimate sums and differences by rounding decimals to whole numbers.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Estimate Products
Estimate the product by rounding to the nearest ten before multiplying.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Estimating a Sum by Rounding
Use rounding to estimate the answer to an addition problem in this online game. As you play the game, running totals of correct and incorrect answers and your score are displayed.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Number: Estimates and Approximations
Estimate numbers by rounding whole numbers and decimals.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Estimate and Round Why Is This Important?
Problem solving will become a little easier when you understand the concepts of estimation and rounding. Explore how these concepts are used in mathematics and real world applications. Detailed examples and links to related games...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Estimating a Difference
This lesson explains how to estimate differences between whole numbers. Gives practice and games to practice this skill in a helpful and fun way.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Estimating a Sum by Rounding
This site explains how to estimate sums of whole numbers. Gives practice and games to practice this skill.