Elementary math minds complete various activities to memorize the multiples of nine. They watch a PowerPoint presentation and demonstrate the finger trick. Unfortunately the link to the multiplication activities does not take you...

Ever sigh when learners ask why they have to know so many different forms of the quadratic equation? Here is a lesson that comes in handy! Using hands-on matching activities, quadratic equations are explored through...

Patterns are extremely helpful when solving a puzzle. Young scholars attempt to find times a bus will pass each stop. They identify a pattern in the known stop times to identify the solutions.

You don't want to leave any learners stranded! Explore ratios using an analysis of gas mileage and distance. Given a scenario, individuals must determine if a car has enough gas to make it to the next gas stop.

Emerging statisticians develop the ability to make inferences from sample data while also working on proportional relationships in general. Here, young learners examine samples for bias, and then use random samples to make...

For this math/nutrition lesson, the nutritional value of 3 snack foods is recorded on a data chart and represented on a bar graph. Students analyze and compare information, construct data charts and related bar graphs, and draw...

In a math or life science class, "mini-me" models are created with cardstock to reflect a 1:10 scale of learners' bodies. Learners measure each others' heights with meter sticks, and then reduce the size by 10. After this exercise, they...

Eighth graders review adding and subtracting of integers. The class makes a number line from -10 to 10 and practice adding and subtracting by "acting out" the math problems. Students play a card game using the number cards from a regular...

Proofs are usually an intimidating assignment. An engaging lesson focused on geometric proofs may reduce the anxiety! Pupils choose between several triangle proofs to complete and work on completing them. The...

Statistics and Probability are all about collecting, organizing, and interpreting data. Young learners use previously collected data and construct a picture graph of the data on poster board. This stellar instructional activity should...

Pupils design a budget to plan for a class party. In this problem solving lesson, students devise a budget with a limit of fifty dollars for a class party. Pupils discuss and estimate the amount of money needed for food and decorations.

The lesson starts out with a brain drain, which is a great way to get students to activate prior knowledge and build lasting connections. They tell everything they know about prime factorization, use their knowledge to...

Second and third graders answer questions based on data presented to them in graphs. They see how to interpret data from a bar graph, line graph, and a chart.

Learners examine and decide on a service-learning project to perform. They design and execute posters that advertise the project using geometric shapes.

Students use the internet to research the cost of going to the school prom. As a class, they brainstorm about the things needed in order to go to the dance and use advertisements to make a budget. After all of the data is collected,...

Students investigate technology and its many designs to make our lives easy. In this science lesson, students build a hot air balloon and answer specific questions about weight and rides in the hot air balloon. They analyze their data...

Students explore the contributions of women in the field of mathematics.  In this middle or high school mathematics activity, students use their reading and listening skills to examine activity targeted at the stereotype of women...

Students each receive a plastic egg filled with jelly beans. In this Jelly Bean Egg Challenge, students estimate and weight their eggs, they count the number of jelly beans inside their egg, they chart their data and compare their data...

Students explore coin value and count coin combinations. In this money counting and social studies lesson, students read The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and practice counting money and making change for a lemonade...

In this Bernstein Bears celebrate 100 days of school worksheet, students record what they have learned in 100 days in school. Students list 100 new words, decide how they would spend $100, draw a picture of themselves at 100 years old,...

Students define productive, capital, human and natural resources and intermediate goods, then classify these things by how they are used in a production process. In this resources/goods lesson plan, students listen to the story The Goat...

Young scholars research the history of Chinese tangrams and complete tangram activities. In this tangram lesson, students complete Internet research to learn the history of Chinese tangrams. Young scholars construct a set of tangrams,...

Students research the contributions of women in mathematics.

Students can turn the block area into a travel agency. In this early childhood problem solving lesson, students use creative-thinking and language skills as they design a play environment.