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Cent Sense
Students identify money values. In this money activity, students sort and group coins by value and investigate the cost of supplies needed for a snack. Students prepare snacks for a snack sale.
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Standard Linear Form
Ninth graders identify and describe the x-intercept as the place where the line crosses the x-axis as it applies to football. They create their own differentiations to reinforce the distinction between the x-intercept and the...
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Understanding Distance in Space
Students discover the vocabulary used for distances in space and review measurement units and instruments before creating a scale model of the planets. They determine how to calculate the relative distances between the planets using a...
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Count Coins and Bills
Students study the names and values of different denominations of paper money, count sets of money that include both coins and bills. They complete a money chart, read and solve word problems.
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Two of Everything
Students listen to story Two of Everything, illustrate coins they would put into the Magic Pot using paper and pencil, and solve Magic Pot riddles by viewing slide show and predicting coin totals. Students then create table listing...
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Trains
Pupils compare the lengths of the train through calculation. This calculation can be done by knowing the values of the rods. Students use problem solving to get the answer to the problem before them.
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Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!
Fifth graders practice using money in everyday situations. They use their addition and subtraction skills as they work in cooperative groups to solve problems involving decimals.
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Find a Pattern Using Children's Literature
Sixth graders listen to Demi's, On Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale. They use the problem solving strategy of finding a pattern to determine the number of rice Rani will receive after 30 days. They create a spreadsheet which...
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Applications of Exponential Functions
Exponential functions are the name of the game. Young mathematicians can work through each of the eight worksheets by evaluating functions, applying logarithms, completing logarithmic functions, and building inverse functions. This...
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Quinoa Pasta 3
A mixture of quinoa and corn is for dinner in this collaborative task that sets up nicely as a system of linear equations. Your supper guests discuss numerical precision and percentages as they formulate a plan of how to solve the problem.
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Fun with Problem Solving
Using a varity of strategies, young mathematicians solve multistep word problems. They play a logic game as a whole group, and then work with a partner on a computer to complete a worksheet that requires a variety of problem solving...
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Bits and Pieces I
Sixth graders examine making smaller parts out of fractions and decimals. In this online interactive fractions, decimals, and percents lesson, 6th graders represent fractions with denominators of ten. Students then represent powers of 10...
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Positive and Negative Numbers
Pupils use blocks and markers to illustrate the processes of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers. In this mathematics lesson, learners use Algebra blocks to demonstrate multiplying polynomials.
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How Do You Measure Up?
Students measure their body. For this measurement lesson, students use a string to measure their height and the circumference of their head. They record this information on the worksheet provided and answer questions as a group.
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Subtraction Decimals
In this math learning exercise, students subtract the decimals while taking special care to keep the decimals in the correct place value. The answers are also available.
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Decimals: Collaborative Lesson
Students explore mathematics by participating in a group activity. In this number value lesson, students identify the uses for decimals and how to best estimate whole numbers based on decimals and fractions. Students collaborate with...
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Computers Can Only Add
Students explore using mathematics to solve problems in base two. After a teacher demonstration of using base two to write numbers. students model similar problems to explore the concept of number systems in different bases. To increase...
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Roll `Em!
First graders engage in using base ten blocks and dice for a fun engaging math lesson. They use a worksheet imbedded in this lesson as the game board to help them play this math game.
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Division with Dividends to 99
In this math worksheet, learners find the answers to the following long division problems. The problems can have remainders.
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Making Rectangles
Students study rectangles. In this math lesson, students use numbers, measurements and geometry to draw rectangles of varying sizes.
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Long Division in Two Digits
In this math instructional activity, students find the solutions to the problems for long division. The answers can be shown in the printable version.
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Converting Fractions to Decimals
After examining a short article on fractions and decimals, readers draw information for the text to respond to a series of reading comprehension questions.
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Representing Constraints
What are constraints and how can they be represented mathematically? This instructional slideshow provides an explanation and an example of how to translate constraints into algebraic inequalities.
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Solving Linear Equations
Use this worksheet for practice or review solving linear equations in one variable. Problems range from multiple-step problems involving parentheses and combining like terms, to word problems, to equations with no solution or infinitely...