Trying to get your class to think of decimals as fractions and vice versa can lead to interesting discussions. After all, we can usually understand quickly that 1/4 is .25 but why is 1/7 not so easy to convert? This activity looks...

Watch the damage from a forest fire in this interactive simulation activity that challenges learners to estimate the burn area using different approaches. Learners are given a worksheet to track the different burn patterns and practice...

A fabulous instructional activity on fractions awaits your young mathematicians. In it, learners are invited to explore the world of fractions by accessing websites that have educational activities and worksheets embedded in them. Some...

Middle schoolers explore the concept of rounding. In this rounding lesson, students round fractions and mixed numbers. Middle schoolers estimate the sums, differences, products, and quotients of rounded fractions and mixed numbers.

Subtracting fractions that have unequal denominators is a tricky process. The instructional activity utilizes fraction bars as a manipulative, in order to understand subtracting fractions and estimating differences. After completing...

NASA presents a mini-unit on distances in our solar system. It incorporates scientific concepts of gravity, mass, density, and payload while your aspiring astronauts also employ mathematics skills. They calculate speed, they determine...

Young math whizzes complete the online instruction, then solve 20 problems about identifying decimals, comparing decimals and fractions and ordering decimals.

Sometimes dealing with decimals is so much easier than dealing with fractions. The ninth lesson in a 21-part module has the class consider situations when it might be easier to add or subtract fractions by first converting to...

Fourth graders complete math problems where they round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand. For this rounding lesson plan, 4th graders explain how to round the problems they solve.

Students discover the idea of rounding numbers.  For this rounding lesson, students are given worksheets having to do with rounding whole numbers and fractions.  Students participate in an activity with number flashcards.  

Students explore the concept of rounding.  In this rounding activity, students use their calculator to round three digit numbers to the nearest 10 or nearest 100.  Students round fractional numbers to the nearest tenth,...

Is it possible to add infinitely long decimals? As pupils complete the examples in the ninth instructional activity of this 25-part series, they determine that adding these decimals cannot be done without error. Their task is then to...

Sometimes a skeleton is all you get. This lesson plan outline provides teachers with a basic lesson plan flow. Pupils will pre-test, order place value names, use manipulatives, and build and compare numbers. How this is to be done is not...

Hooray for chocolate chip cookies! Ask your mathematicians to triple a chocolate chip cookie recipe and then reduce the recipe by one-fourth. Your class may need two days to complete, tripling the recipe the first day and reducing the...

Seventh graders, exploring methods to estimate fractions, take notes on estimating fractions, 7th graders write letters to explain the process of estimating fractions and mixed numbers to someone who does not know the concept. Students...

Students explore fractions. In this fraction instructional activity, students estimate fractions and estimate sums of fractions. Students work with technology to develop math fluency.

Young scholars explore fractions. In this fraction instructional activity, students play an interactive game and use manipulatives to practice working with fractions.

In this math review worksheet, 4th graders answer multiple choice questions about place value, fractions, rounding, and more. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.

Students practice the concepts behind fractions, decimals, and percents by using sports statistics on baseball cards. In this baseball math lesson, students use fractions and estimation to calculate statistics. Students calculate batting...

Apply the concept of magnitude to estimate values and compare numbers. The ninth lesson of the 15-part series asks learners to write numbers to their next greatest power of 10 and then make comparisons. Scholars begin to understand the...

In this metric conversion worksheet, learners problem solve fourteen exercises where they convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.

Students solve problems with percents, decimals and fractions. In this algebra instructional activity, students convert between fractions, percents and decimals. They estimate their answers and calculate their answer.

Students use several examples to create a method for adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. They present these methods to the class and then practice applying methods to sample problems.

Students connect different mathematical concepts. They create a circle graph. Students then create a question in which they collect data in order to convert fractions to decimals and decimals to percents.