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...

Using a broken ruler requires students to turn to addition and subtraction skills in order to determine measurements.

We are going for GOLD! Students will use different objects to measure the length achieved in different Olympic events.

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...

This lesson drives home the idea that studying for math means practicing problems and reflecting on your strategies

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...

Exposure to this concept now is both fun and engaging AND a crucial step toward building a foundation for deeper, long-term understanding.

Children will learn about and explore measurement to successfully design a dog house for his or her cutout paper dog. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or online game that encourages children to...

It's time to stand in the spotlight! During this Afterschool Adventure, children will learn about and practice a variety of math skills as they gather information about their favorite subject-themselves! Children will start out by...

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...

For this task, students use a piece of string or another tool to measure the radius of the circle and then mark off the corresponding arc length on the unit circle as many times as they need to for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 radians. They...

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.

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....

In this task, young scholars investigate how many coins will fit around a central coin when they are all of the same denomination, and if there is room left over. The teacher is given a chart of four coin denominations and their...

Grams are a useful measurement in determining nutritional content of food.

Differences between shapes are determined through measurement skills.

I can create polygons and find the perimeter by using the unit squares on my paper

Students learn how to write simple programs to evaluate formulas in several variables for lists of data. They apply these skills to the computation of areas, volumes and surface areas of familiar geometric solids.

Students will learn and reinforce skills for measuring perimeter and area of 2D shapes and measuring surface area and volume of 3D shapes.

While students gain an understand of basic environmental toxicology, they explore the health impacts of industrialization on society in these lessons. This is a cross curricular unit that addresses standards for eleventh grade in math,...

The purpose of this task is to illustrate through an absurd example the fact that in real life quantities are reported to a certain level of accuracy, and it does not make sense to treat them as having greater accuracy. Aligns with N-Q.A.3.

Some friends are at the beach looking out onto the ocean on a clear day and they wonder how far away the horizon is. A second problem asks how far the horizon would be from the top of a mountain. Learners must also answer a question...

In this task, young scholars investigate the volume of tennis balls and their cylindrical container, the empty space around the balls, different ways of slicing them, and what their visualizations will look like. Aligns with G-GMD.B.4...

For this task, students are asked to calculate the height above sea level of a lamp on top of a lighthouse that is visible to a boat, and to examine two other interpretations of the distance from the lighthouse to the boat. Aligns with...