You can encourage a child's self-expression through process-oriented art: simply put, art that is based on exploration and allows different outcomes. This article outlines the do's and don'ts for encouraging self-expression and...

Communication involves listening and speaking as well as reading and writing clearly and creatively, and technology provides opportunities for expressing yourself digitally. In these Quests, students learn about different software...

This informative site offers information about the duties, working conditions, skills, education, employment, and salary of an expressive arts therapist.

Being able to communicate social-emotional learning visually or through movement, sound and words is not only an essential developmental skill, but it can also be a lot of fun for preschoolers. These creative expression activities for...

In this lesson, 7th graders rewrite an expression to help determine a solution.

In this task, students will rewrite fractions as a sum of distinct unit fractions. To solve the problem, students will rewrite a simple rational expression and will need to study the arithmetic of these unit fractions with a variable in...

In this task, students use the structure of an expression to find ways to rewrite it. They are asked to use the defining property of even and odd functions to manipulate expressions involving function notation and to see the structure in...

The purpose of this task about tiling a kitchen floor is to give learners practice in reading, analyzing, and constructing algebraic expressions, attending to the relationship between the form of an expression and the context from which...

A landscaping company prepares two mixtures of fertilizer. In this task, students investigate what happens to the value of an expression when a quantity is changed. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.

This task asks students to analyze four expressions to determine what each represents in terms of the problem's context, which is about two trucks delivering different amounts of sand in different numbers of trips. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1...

This task about a box of chocolates has students use the given equations to answer questions about weight and price, as well as interpret the expressions in the equations. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.a.

This task serves as a possible first student exploration after an initial introduction to the form and arithmetic of complex multiplication. Students need to understand that every complex number can be expressed in the form a+bi, and...

In this task, students interact with a Desmos app by moving sliders and making observations about features of the graphs and the structures of the expressions of the functions. Aligns with F-IF.C.7.d.

This task requires students to work with large and small values expressed in scientific notation and in decimal notation, as well as to convert units of mass. Aligns with 8.EE.A.4 and 8.EE.A.1.

This task aims to show students that there is often more than one way to represent a quantity. This lesson also lays a foundation for students to understand the commutative property of multiplication.

By examining the lives and lyrics of popular, positive black female rappers such as Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill, students can trace a direct line back to the inspirational writer and poet, Maya Angelou. Rap lyrics will help explicate...

This task is not about computing the final price of the shirt but about using the structure in the computation to make a general argument. Aligns with A-SSE.B.

Given the height and volume of a certain cylinder, Jill uses the volume formula to compute its radius. If a second cylinder has the same volume as the first, but is 100 times taller, what is its radius? Aligns with A-SSE.A.1.

The goal of this task is to manipulate equations in order to solve for a specified variable. Aligns with HSA-CED.A.4.

This problem examines the growth of algal blooms in Chesapeake Bay. Students build an exponential function modeling algae concentration based on the information provided, and gain an appreciation for the exponential growth exhibited...

For this task, students are asked to interpret equations representing a bank account's balance where the interest is compounded monthly versus yearly. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.a.

In this task, 6th graders are presented with a large square divided into 9 squares and the center square is then removed. They are asked to find the area of the 8 remaining squares. Each smaller square is divided in the same way and the...

Biographical sketch of Dicky Wells, leading black American jazz trombonist noted, especially in the big band era, for his melodic creativity and expressive techniques.