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Skip it to multiply it
First graders make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of answers.
They make up, tell and record number stories up to 9 about given objects. They skip count in twos, threes and fives.
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Counting Cubes
Students count backwards in 2s from 30 then try other skip patterns such as 1,3,5, etc. and invent their own counting patterns. They are introduced to the problem using a pile of cubes and count by 2s and have a remainder.
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Calculating Interest
Students explore the concept that when money is borrowed, people pay to use it because someone else is losing an opportunity to use it while they have it. What you pay to use the money is called interest. The rate of interest is a...
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Remarkable Ratios
In this ratios activity, students examine pictures of 12 cartoon characters. Students solve 12 problems in which a ratio is written to show the number of characters with certain attributes compared to the total number.
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Complementary Probability
In this probability worksheet, students solve complementary probability word problems with 4 problems in them. Students complete 2 problems.
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Probability Problem Worksheets
In this online math worksheet, students practice their word problem solving skills. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific teaching tool!
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How to Play This Board Game
In this addition worksheet, students roll the dice and solve the addition problem in each space of the board game. Students solve 20 problems.
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Board Game
In this shapes worksheet, students play a board game where they name the shape that they land on. Students have 20 spaces in the board game.
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Board Game
In this subtraction activity, students play a board game where they move spaces according to the subtraction problem they land on. Students complete 20 problems.
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Board Game
In this time worksheet, students roll the dice and solve the time problems on each space. Students complete 20 problems total on this worksheet.
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Board Game
In this division worksheet, students complete division problems when they land on spaces on a board game. Students complete 20 problems.
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Board Game
In this percents worksheet, students roll the dice and say a problem that fits the percentage in the space. Students complete 20 spaces total.
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Buying My First Car
Students pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.
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Coin Conversions
Fifth graders engage in the study of conversions from decimals to percents while examining monetary values. They explain the relationships between the equivalency interchanging decimals with percents. Then students write about the...
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Unifying Unlike Denominators
Students play roll of fictional radio disk jockeys. They allocate their daily program time into fractional time slots for the playing of specified catagories of music and commercial advertisements.
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Bargain Town, USA
Third graders discuss discounts and walk around classroom labeled with lots of discounted merchandise. They complete a worksheet converting original prices to new bargain prices.
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Adding Ten Tiles I
Students practice this problem that needs a certain amount of experimentation (trial and error) to get any answer at all. In the process they practice their basic number facts. However, to get the complete set of answers Students need to...
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Volumes in 3-D
In this geometry worksheet, 11th graders calculate the volume of there dimensional shapes using the formula for cylinders. They are given the height and the base and asked to calculate the volume. There are 4 problems.
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How Cool Is Your Environment?
Students study the formulas for calculating heat energy and how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. They apply the formulas on a worksheet.
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Million Dollar Gift
Third graders create a box big enough to hold a million dollars. This is a project fun to do near the winter holidays with inexpensive gifts included in the boxes. This hands-on lesson very effectively demonstrates the concept of volume.
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The Colored Cube Question
Fourth graders examine how to determine the probabilities or likelihood of outcomes. They complete trials to determine probability while using different manipulatives. They determine how games can be made fair or unfair in this unit of...
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Pyrotechnics
Students discuss pyrotechnics and what they have noticed about their height and speed. They think about the path which fireworks follow which is a parabola. They follow multiplication patterns to determine the Zero Product Property and...
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Gulls
Students listen to the problem and think about the first question and the number operation that they would use and explain. They work in pairs and record their solutions so that they can be displayed and shared.
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Jobs and Salaries
For this economics worksheet, students look for the budgets and go through the practical activities of maintaining a monthly expense sheet.