Students work in groups to plan a flight around the country. The activity explores estimation, number sense, measurement, and patterns. The resource consists of a lesson plan, group activity instructions, lesson overview, and an expert...

Students work in groups to investigate weather and estimating cloud cover. The activity explores estimation, spatial sense, fractions, and patterns. The resource consists of a lesson plan, group activity instructions, lesson overview,...

Students work in groups to find the shortest path between two cities. The activity explores problem solving, number relationships, estimation, and measurement. The resource consists of a lesson plan, group activity instructions, lesson...

Students work in groups to build their own kite. The activity explores estimation, geometry, measurement, and patterns. The resource consists of a lesson plan, group activity instructions, lesson overview, and an expert page.

Join Max and Ruthie on a snow day math adventure and see how many things can happen in just one day. Teachers will like this activity's approach to experiencing and telling time. Use the teacher's guide, activity sheet, and extra...

This website offers plenty of links for activities around the topic of calendar math using estimation, measurement, and computations.

An integrated math and language arts lesson focusing on statistics. Students explore the concepts of estimation, data collection, data analysis, classification, graphing, and counting through the reading of the Button Box by Margarette...

Pancakes anyone? Learners explore estimation and measurement by learning how to make pancakes. A hands-on lesson designed for students in grades 3-5 where learners are engage in hand-on experiences involving measuring volume, converting...

[Free Registration/Login Required] After this lesson, students will be able to solve problems using a variety of mental math strategies.

Step by step, this video lesson [2:41] will show you how to add up the number of squares that cover an object in order to find the area of a figure. It is 3 of 7 in the series titled "Finding Area with Squares."...

During this lesson, students will learn the difference between estimation and guessing. Knowing how to estimate is an essential skill that will help students determine approximate totals as well as check the reasonableness of their...

This site explains how to estimate sums of whole numbers. Gives practice and games to practice this skill.

This site explains how to round whole numbers to the nearest ten. The information on the site gives exercise problems and games to practice this skill in a fun and helpful way.

This site explains how to round whole numbers to the nearest thousand. Gives practice and games to master this skill.

This site explains how to round whole numbers to the nearest ten thousand. Gives exercises and games to practice this skill.

This site explains how to round whole numbers to the nearest hundred thousand. Gives practice and games to practice this skill which are fun and helpful on the subject.

In this lesson plan, the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will learn how to evaluate the validity of a mathematical argument. Students will practice writing and revising...

This interactive game has students apply skills in estimation, measurement, and basic addition using pearls. Students are asked to estimate the number of pearls in a treasure chest by making predictions and using number sense. The skills...

Students estimate the cost of building an Egyptian pyramid with modern materials and ancient building methods in this math project.

Math and literacy meet in this extensive lesson plan based on the familiar children's story, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Learners will be engaged in math activities such as, "Cookie Count," "Who Took the Cookies," and "Cookie Jar...

Brush up on your math skills relating to rounding numbers then try some practice problems to test your understanding.

The Shodor Education Foundation has as its mission: "To advance science and math education through the use of computational science, modeling and technology." At this site, Shodor's Project Interactivate offers Java-based activities for...

In this lesson on two-step word problems, 3rd graders learn about estimation, explore different drawings, and apply their learning to create their own word problems.

The lesson explores how to round numbers. Explanations and examples are included in the tutorial.