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Better Lesson: Jumping Into Math, Measurement & Data Day 2

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders create line plots and analyze data using measurement data with quarter unit fractions.
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Measuring How Much Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Measuring fun is here! In this week's adventure, children will explore volume, capacity, and weight and learn new math vocabulary words as they practice measurement with real and virtual measuring tools. Each section of this weeklong...
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Better Lesson: Assessing Measurement Techniques

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today you will get an opportunity to conduct an assessment interview that will look at how well your students are measuring with inch tiles.
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Better Lesson: Broken Ruler Measurements

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Using a broken ruler requires students to turn to addition and subtraction skills in order to determine measurements.
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Better Lesson: Perimeter Measuring Around

For Teachers 3rd Standards
This lesson focuses on the addition measurement of perimeter using real world examples.
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Better Lesson: Measurement: Comparing Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st Standards
First Graders need to use direct and indirect comparisons to measure objects. Today they will use their new knowledge of dinosaurs to find the longest of the giant lizards.
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Better Lesson: Math Hunt Part 2

For Teachers 2nd Standards
SWBAT take the data from class and home and create comparisons of the different ways math is used by adults.
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Pbs: Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson deals primarily with the number of rhythmic combinations that can be found in a four beat measure of music. Students will learn through trial and error and derive a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible...
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Better Lesson: Measuring and Weighing and Filling, Oh My!

For Teachers 6th Standards
This lesson drives home the idea that studying for math means practicing problems and reflecting on your strategies
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Better Lesson: Measuring Our Classroom's Perimeter and Area!

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Connect new measurement knowledge and skills to the students' immediate environment.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Measuring for Cookies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, young scholars use math and physics skills to follow directions when making cookies. This is a very detailed and structured lesson!
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Martha's Stem Stories Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
Welcome to Martha's STEM Stories! STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You may already know that doing STEM means testing ideas, collecting data, making calculations, and drawing graphs and charts-but you...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.1 and N q.a.3: Felicia's Drive

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task requires students to make some sensible approximations of the amount of gas needed for a drive. They must choose a level of accuracy appropriate to limitations on measurement when reporting quantities. Aligns with N-Q.A.1 and...
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Pbs: Black Kingdoms of the Nile

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A geometry lesson that examines the history and structure of ancient pyramids and engages students in constructing pyramid models. A comprehensive lesson that considers students with diverse learning styles. Math concepts introduced...
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Discovery Education: Stories From Africa

For Teachers 1st - 5th
At the end of this lesson, young scholars will have a better understanding of the size of the African elephant. This could be used in an animal science unit, a measuring unit in math, an extension to literature, or for social studies...
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Better Lesson: Design a Space Using Area Models Day 1 and Day 2

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders use area models to find the total area of a store, home, or other real world space.
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Better Lesson: My Unique Perimeter Performance Task

For Teachers 3rd Standards
I can create things that have their own unique perimeter.
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Better Lesson: What Makes a Shape? Analyzing and Script Writing

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders will use the bat houses we built as examples of various quadrilaterals.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Rain Measurements Tell a Story

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Using language arts, math, and measurement skills, elementary students explore rainfall data and learn how to measure precipitation through an interactive story.
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Better Lesson: Area Word Problems Days 1 & 2

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Area word problems using a real world context pose new mathematical challenges for students to negotiate.
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Better Lesson: Playing With Probability Some Simple Scenarios

For Teachers 3rd
Exposure to this concept now is both fun and engaging AND a crucial step toward building a foundation for deeper, long-term understanding.
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lights, Camera, Action Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
Let's take it from the top! This week's adventure, Operation: Lights, Camera, Action!, takes children to a movie set where they work behind-the-scenes and explore different kinds of jobs such as production assistant (keeps track of the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf Bicycle Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to introduce radian measure for angles in a situation where it arises naturally, in this case the movement of a bicycle wheel. Aligns with HSF-TF.A.1.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.3 and S id.a: Accuracy of Carbon 14 Dating I

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task examines, from a mathematical and statistical point of view, how scientists measure the age of organic materials by measuring the ratio of Carbon 14 to Carbon 12. The focus here is on the statistical nature of such dating....

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