Students familiarize themselves with the three most common geometric shapes: circles, triangles and parallelograms. They sketch, sort, and name the shapes.

Third graders utilize different types of computer programs, such as Microsoft paint and Microsoft Word to study and create different types of polygons. They use PowerPoint to create a story about a shape and others that it meets during a...

Students examine the meaning of data and data collection, represent data in various ways, and make a bar graph.

Students count and recognize numbers to 10. In this math lesson plan students play a CD-ROM game Mouse in the House: Blast Off. Support worksheets are also included.

Students create spreadsheets and bar graphs based on results of survey of favorite holidays.

Students explore quilting. In this math patterns lesson, students define the perimeter of a quilt border, create tessellations using geometric shapes, and detemine the area of a quilt.

An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and graphing....