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Using the Grocery Store as an Instructional Place for Math
The grocery store can be a great place to reinforce math lessons and get new activity ideas.
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Thanksgiving Math Lessons: Count Your Blessings!
Thanksgiving math can be a way to delve into the true meaning of the holiday.
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Family Letter and Activity: Cars, Trucks and Percents
For this math worksheet, learners will take home a letter to their parents explaining that they are studying Chapter 10: Ratio, Proportion and Percent. Then students will complete a homework activity in which they ask family and friends...
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Family Letter and Algebra
In this algebra worksheet, learners receive a parent informational letter. The letter discusses what will be covered in algebra that school year and has an ordering integers activity.
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Time to Have Fun: Telling Time Activity
For this time worksheet, students draw lines to match a set of events at a family carnival and their beginning and total activity times to an ending time given in a separate column. Answers included on page 2.
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Graphing Activity
In this probability and statistics worksheet, students work with a family member to construct graphs based on real life data. The two page worksheet contains three questions. Answers are not included.
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Familia Romana
Students compare and contrast ancient family life to present day family life. In this Roman family life lesson, students discuss the roles present in their families and then learn about family life in ancient Rome. Students complete a...
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Make Art Class Merry With Creative Christmas Art Activities
Kids get hands-on with seasonal crafts through Christmas art activities!
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Activity 11: Family of Functions
Students investigate linear, quadratic, and absolute value functions. In this Algebra II lesson, students observe and describe family traits that exist among functions as they use technology to graph several functions on the same...
Balanced Assessment
Cost of Living
Math scholars investigate the cost of living in Hong Kong compared to Chicago but must first convert the different types of currency. They then choose a type of graph to compare different spending categories and finish the activity by...
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Elizabeti's Series--Classroom Guide
Second graders explore the books in the Elizabeti Series. In this reading comprehension lesson, young readers discuss pre-reading focus questions about their feelings on the first day of school. They investigate the book and describe the...
Teach Engineering
Go Public: Osteoporosis Brochure
Osteoporosis and family — notice the connection between the two. Pairs develop a brochure to educate the public about osteoporosis in the last portion of the six-part series. The teams draw on the information learned throughout the unit...
Visa
Earning Money
Where does money come from? Is it limitless and always available? Introduce your youngsters to the concept of earning through jobs and/or chores with a matching activity and provided worksheets.
Intel
Fair Games
Who said things were fair? The unit introduces probability and its connection to fairness. The class interacts with activities of chance and plays games to relate them to fairness. Groups design a fair game and develop a presentation....
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Graphing Equivalent Fractions
Students graph families of equivalent fractions and compare them by observing the slope of the line formed by each fraction family. They place fractions in ascending order by comparing the slopes of each line after several families of...
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Goal Setting
Students understand how they can incorporate dietary guidelines in their daily life. For this investigative lesson students set dietary goals and incorporate an activity to learn how to create a new seed variety while studying dispersal...
Illustrative Mathematics
Busy Day
This activity gets at the heart of algebraic reasoning and setting up equations with one variable to solve real-world problems. The worksheet has only one problem, but it requires that learners first use their own reasoning capabilities...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Color This Polynomial Simplified
Help learners use a variety of methods to identify, visualize, and simplify polynomials with like terms. Several different visuals are used to introduce the instructional activity, such as colored pencils, overheads, interactive white...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Miss Integer Finds Her Properties in Order
Access prior knowledge to practice concepts like order of operations and exponents. Your class can play this game as a daily review or as a warm-up activity when needed. They work in groups of four to complete and correct review problems.
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Fun Faces of Wisconsin Agriculture: Curley's Beef Fast Facts
Learners explore animal slaughter by researching the Wisconsin beef industry. In this meat statistics lesson, students practice using different math functions to identify how many burgers or sports equipment can be made from one...
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Fact Families - Part 2
Complete these fact families; mathematicians use addition number sentences to write three more equations, all of which are members of the same fact family. There is an example here to guide them, and they solve for nine more number...
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20 Tickets
A great hands-on activity involving adding and subtracting, beginner mathematicians determine how many games can be played with 20 tickets. Instead of tickets, youngsters use 20 counters or linking cubes to represent the amount of...
Illustrative Mathematics
Battery Charging
Your class will be very interested in the results of this activity. How long does it take a MP3 and video game player to charge? Sam only has an hour and the MP3 player only has 40% of its battery life left. Plus, his video player is...
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Math Game Night
Students plan a family game night. For this problem solving lesson, students brainstorm games to play, watch a video to help with room arrangement and determine which room arrangement would work best. When all the preparations are done...