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Mathematics Assessment Project

Maximizing Area: Gold Rush

For Teachers 7th Standards
Presenting ... the gold standard for a lesson. Learners first investigate a task maximizing the area of a plot for gold prospecting. They then examine a set of sample student responses to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.
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Add It Up

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a lesson that gives the research basis for the use of manipulatives for the basic operations in mathematics. They use the variety of tools to solve basic problems. The lesson has valuable resource links for the...
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The Ins And Outs Of Area And Perimeter

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders demonstrate the concept of perimeter and area using manipulative. In this area and perimeter lesson, 5th graders explore area and perimeter through the exploration style of teaching using eatable and non-eatable...
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Number and Operations- Raul's Apples: Word Problem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how they can use manipulatives to solve word problems. In this problem solving instructional activity, students read Raul's Apples Problem and then complete a worksheet, using beans or counters to solve the problem....
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Terrific Tangrams

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders construct tangrams. In this tangrams lesson, 3rd graders manipulate basic shapes to construct tangrams. Students explore how shapes can be combined in different ways and develop spatial sense.
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Face The Facts To Remember

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use manipulatives, drawings, and story problems to learn the two's multiplication tables. After learning how to find answers, they participate in a memory game to match facts and answers.
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Probability Popsicle Pop-ups

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders decorate and use popsicle sticks as manipulatives to assist with their learning of probability. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to organize the results of their experiment. They make a stem and leaf plot...
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Bag the Beans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are exposed to a wide array of concrete representations to help develop a foundation for the higher abstract ideas associated with mathematical inquiry. In this lesson plan, students will work with manipulatives (beans) to...
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Multiplication: Determining the Weight of Multiple Objects

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use their knowledge of multiplication and problem solving to determine the total weight of multiple objects. In this multiplication lesson, 7th graders weigh various manipulatives, record the weight, and use...
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Meet the Neighbors: Planets Around Nearby Stars

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explain why a transiting planet causes a periodic dimming in the light from its parent star. They determine the radius of a planet, and its orbital distance, by analyzing data and manipulating equations. Students compare the...
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Junk Sort

For Teachers K - 1st
Students analyze objects by one or more attributes. In this sorting lesson, students use manipulatives and string or yarn to create a sorting game. Students read books and items from the classroom to sort. 
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Counting 1-5

For Teachers K
Students explore numbers by participating in basic counting activities. In this early math lesson, students identify the numbers between 1 and 5 and read several books that demonstrate early counting. Students practice counting to 5 on...
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 4: Transformation Station

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders manipulate triangles to discover the concepts of slides, flips and turns of a geometric shape.
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Quadrilaterals: Four-sided Figures

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders engage in a variety of hands-on and technology-rich activities involving the classification of quadrilaterals. They utilize protractors and rulers to investigate the characteristics of various types of quadrilaterals. They...
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Volume and Surface Area of Right Rectangular Prisms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the formulas for three-dimensional figures. They use manipulatives to model problems. Students create foldables and explain volume and surface area. Students complete worksheets and classify solids. Students sing a...
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The Difference of 2 Squares

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students factor a difference of two squares.  In this factoring a difference of two squares lesson, students use manipulates cut from a piece of paper to illustrate the difference of two squares.  Students illustrate the...
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Fact Families

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "fact families" using digital pictures of their classmates and knowledge of basic math concepts (subtraction and addition) in this technology-based math lesson intended for use in the early-elementary classroom. A...
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Balancing Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars balance equations using the correct method. In this algebra lesson, students solve linear equations using a virtual balance beam as a manipulative. They play games to reinforce the concept of equations being and staying...
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Corresponding Parts of Similar Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Here is a lesson that has learners take a look at corresponding parts of similar triangles, ratios of similarity, reductions and enlargements. They'll manipulate the scale factor (r) to observe the changes in similar triangles and then...
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Don't Eat the Crayons: Real-Life Multiplication

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use items which come in sets to look for real-life multiples and write multiplication problems. This lesson plan assess the student's understanding of the meaning of multiplication using an array model and manipulatives.
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QUILTING AND COMBINATIONS

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students apply problem solving procedures and skills to solve a given real life problem by manipulating felt squares to represent the possible combinations for a two color quilt.
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Exploring Symmetry

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use a software program to create artwork and to manipulate images to study mirror and rotational symmetry. They take pictures of items in their environment in which they identify symmetry.
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Combination Factory

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use cut-outs of clothing to illustrate the numbers of combinations of articles of clothing they can create. Students create a tree-diagram and count the number of possibilities. They practice showing the information in...
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Fractions!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe and design manipulatives showing fractional parts.  In this fractional part activity, 2nd graders create a paper hamburger using circle fractions.  Students navigate a website to find fractional parts of...

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