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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Oral Histories
Students conduct oral histories of family members to explore their cultural and ethnic heritage after developing a set of research questions.
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Who's Going to the Convention?
Students practice planning budgets as they create a budget for ten employees of a company to attend a professional convention. They use the Internet, and spreadsheet software to complete their assignment.
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Guess My Piece -working with Legos
Students participate in guessing their partners' hidden Lego pieces from their verbal clues. They work in partners to accomplish their goals. They are meeting a variety of math standards by completing this lesson.
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Half Math Quilt
Help your third graders become familiar with equivalent fractions for one-half by having them create a quilt. They will use triangles to create a quilt of equivalent fractions over a period of 6 days. As they create the quilt pieces they...
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Patterns
Second graders create an ABAB pattern with their name. In this early elementary math instructional activity, 2nd graders first model their names in an ABAB pattern with unifix cubes. They then recreate the pattern using letter stamps on...
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Bean Addition
A hands-on lesson created students use beans as manipulatives to solve addition number sentences. Requires the book, Mission Addition by Loreen Leedy.
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Know Your Fractions
In this math worksheet, students practice solving the problems that use fractions. They match the fractions with the picture of pie pieces.
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Reinforcing Fractions Using a Fraction Calculator
Young scholars complete fraction word problems using TI-Explorer Calculators.
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Volatile Volcanoes
Young scholars explore volcanoes. In this cross curricula instructional activity, students use the Internet to investigate volcanoes. The series of six instructional activity guides the young scholars in their search for...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Representing the Laws of Arithmetic
Sixth graders connect numerical expressions to geometric area. They first complete an assessment task requiring them to identify area models for numerical expressions. Learners then participate in an activity to match area models to...
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Estimation
Students explore the concept of estimation. In this estimation lesson, students discuss making estimates through teacher led discussion. Students use the Internet to complete an activity where they must estimate the length of lines.
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Number Properties - Know 'em, Like 'em, Use 'em
Ninth graders express mathematical properties through creation of advertising jingles.
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Following Specs.
Young scholars utilyze a set number of DUPLO blocks to build a free-form construction project.
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Estimation Lesson Plan
Students use four different computer estimation applets with several classroom estimation activities.
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A Trip to Colonial Virginia
Students consider prices while planning a trip to Colonial Virginia. In this budgeting instructional activity, students construct an itinerary of events for a vacation. Students are responsible for working within the approved budget.
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100 Stamps for 100 Days
Second graders count by 2's to get to 100. In this counting lesson plan, 2nd graders use the program Kid Pix to create stamps two at a time until they get to 100.
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Math in My World
Third graders record in their journals the many ways in which mathematics is part of their world.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Number and Operation Sense: Whole Numbers
In this activity, students attain a basic understanding of numbers and number operations, developing number sense, and gaining fluency in arithmetic computation. They also learn to use the calculator to explore the mathematical...
Other
Link to Learning: Number Sense and Numeration
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses Number Sense and Numeration expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
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Link to Learning: Number Sense and Numeration
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses Number Sense and Numeration expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Number and Operation Sense: Rational Numbers
Students learn to use the calculator to collect a set of data in order to identify patterns that illustrate important rational number concepts: the relationship between rational numbers and division, and equivalent fraction and decimal...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Numbers 20 to 25
Numbers don't stop at 20! We spend the last week or so of school looking at the numbers beyond 20. Today we do it through a story.