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Adding Fractions and Mixed Numbers

For Teachers 5th
In this mathematics worksheet, 5th graders use the diagram to identify how many parts are shaded and what fraction of a pizza is this. Then they use the common denominator to add the numerators and simplify the fraction.
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Printables
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Fractions: A Conceptual Approach

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
If you are teaching fractions to elementary learners this year, this Singapore Math presentation is essential to your curriculum. It addresses several basic fractions concepts in conceptual terms and figures, making each idea accessible...
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Adding Fractions With Like Denominators

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the concept of adding fractions with like denominators. They review how to combine the numerators. Students use cutouts to handle fractions that are hands on while comparing them to slices of pizza. They work...
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Lesson Plan
Science Matters

Thermal Energy Flow in Materials

For Teachers 6th Standards
The sun sends the earth 35,000 times the amount of energy required by all of us on the entire planet, every day. The fourth instructional activity in the 10-part series looks at how light energy from the sun transfers into thermal...
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Cutting Sandwiches

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss shapes and their characteristics. As a class, they explore shapes made from a square. Students explore triangles, squares, fractions of a square such as a half and a quarter. Individually, they complete worksheets, and...
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Size-Wise:Healthy Eating Habits

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Learners become familiar with portion control.  In this healthy habits lesson, students create a meal using pizza and toppings.  Learners continue adding toppings and cutting away portions until there is none left.  Students recognize...
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Can You Lend Me a Hand?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the concepts of community. In this communities lesson, students listen and respond to the story of The Little Red Hen and discuss ways to contribute to their own community. Students recognize the importance of...
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Lesson Plan
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Bite Sized Fractions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compute and solve problems involving addition and subtraction of 3- and 4- digit numbers and basic facts of multiplication and division. They use paper and bitesized candy bars to practice fractions.
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Organizer
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Party!

For Students 5th Standards
What could be more fun than two birthday parties in one day? Compare and contrast two parties with a short reading passage and a graphic organizer that focuses on character, setting, and events from the story.
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Lesson Plan
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Fractions: Multiplication and Division

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders multiply and divide fractions. Using the teepee method, 7th graders model fractions as they find solutions to problems. They recognize that "of" means to multiply and explore real life situations when multiplying or...
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Lesson Plan
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Fractions in Shapes

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore fractions with manipulatives. In this fraction instructional activity, 1st graders use paper foods such as sandwiches and pizza in order to find halves, thirds, fourths, eighths, and more. This instructional...
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Hello, Fractions!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover fractions through the use of pattern blocks, literature, website activity and making a fractional pizza.
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Equivalent Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils describe parts of a fraction and make equivalent fractions. They review parts of a fraction using a pizza, make equivalent fractions, and play the review game Fraction Fairway.
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Fantastic Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students work in small groups to find pictures that represent the fractions 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4. They paste their examples onto bulletin board paper and share their results with the rest of the class.
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Lesson Plan
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Comparing Fractions with Objects and Pictures

For Teachers 3rd
Scholars will compare fractions using objects and pictures. They view pre-made pictures and concrete objects of fractions. Then use small white boards to draw pictorial representations of fractions.
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Worksheet
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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

For Students 7th - 8th
Challenge your learners with this activity on misplaced and dangling modifiers. This 20 question worksheet could be used after a lesson on this topic to cement students' understanding.
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Activity
Star Date

Astronomy Day from McDonald Observatory Solar System Scale Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Add a visual aid to your solar system lessons. Enthusiastic astronomers create a model depicting the nine planets and their distance from the sun. 
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Lesson Plan
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Fact Or Opinion

For Teachers 7th
Groups of junior highers find newspaper articles which contain both facts and opinions, and present examples of each to the class. The focus is on discerning between fact and opinion. Two excellent worksheets are embedded in the plan...
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Adding and Subtracting Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students develop strategies for adding and subtracting fractions. They search for and generalize patterns.
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EZ Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students become familiar with fractions, and have a meaningful experience to relate them to. They write fractions, and identify numerators and denominators.
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Worksheet
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Place the First Digit of the Quotient

For Students 4th - 5th
In this division worksheet, students solve division word problems. They divide one digit numbers into three digit numbers. There are six problems to solve.
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Writing
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Don't Tell. Show!

For Students 3rd - 8th
As part of a study of narrative writing, young story tellers are asked to revise 20 telling sentences and create showing ones.
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Lesson Plan
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Writing Equivalent Fractions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work to find the fractions that are equal to one another. They use a visual pie graph to show different values. Students are able to see how fractions can look different, yet have the same value.
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Worksheet
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Adding Fractions

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this adding fractions worksheet, students read about the process of adding fractions with like denominators, examine some sample problems, and then solve 4 problems independently.