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Better Lesson: Jumping Into Math, Measurement & Data Day 2
Third graders create line plots and analyze data using measurement data with quarter unit fractions.
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Better Lesson: Perimeter Measuring Around
This lesson focuses on the addition measurement of perimeter using real world examples.
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Better Lesson: Assessing Measurement Techniques
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
Using a broken ruler requires students to turn to addition and subtraction skills in order to determine measurements.
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Better Lesson: Is This Math or Isn't It?
SWBAT identify the math all around them and explain their thinking.
PBS
Pbs: Real Life Math: Restaurant Manager
Restaurant manager Tad Peelen explains how he uses math in his work in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students complete an activity involving one aspect of math that Mr. Peleen mentions: determining...
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Better Lesson: Measurement: Comparing Dinosaurs
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: Babies & Big Boy Feet
Kindergarteners need a basic understanding of measurement that leads them to know that the smaller the unit the more it takes to measure the same object using less larger units.
Other
School House Technologies: Free Math Worksheets for Teachers
A collection of math worksheets covering a multitude of math topics.
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Better Lesson: Math Hunt Part 2
SWBAT take the data from class and home and create comparisons of the different ways math is used by adults.
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Better Lesson: Design a Space Using Area Models Day 1 and Day 2
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
I can create things that have their own unique perimeter.
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Better Lesson: What Makes a Shape? Analyzing and Script Writing
Third graders will use the bat houses we built as examples of various quadrilaterals.
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Better Lesson: Area Word Problems Days 1 & 2
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
Exposure to this concept now is both fun and engaging AND a crucial step toward building a foundation for deeper, long-term understanding.
PBS
Pbs: Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations
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...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Measurement: An Elementary Resource List
University of Regina senior education mathematics students compiled this this in-depth resource list for elementary and middle school grades. The resources are categorized according to: supporting program materials, print resources,...
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Better Lesson: Measuring and Weighing and Filling, Oh My!
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!
Connect new measurement knowledge and skills to the students' immediate environment.
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Better Lesson: Math Trash
A lesson where students collect trash, sort, and record the mass in grams. They will use their knowledge of numbers to figure out what category of trash had the most. The biggest idea of the lesson is that students will be more likely to...
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Better Lesson: Sugary Surprises
Grams are a useful measurement in determining nutritional content of food.
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Better Lesson: Differences With Shapes
Differences between shapes are determined through measurement skills.
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Better Lesson: Is the Statement True or False?
Second graders use their knowledge of place value to determine whether a comparison statement is true or false.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Measuring for Cookies
For this lesson, young scholars use math and physics skills to follow directions when making cookies. This is a very detailed and structured lesson!