Students pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.

Young scholars demonstrate and describe the effect of multiplying or dividing by a fraction less than or greater than one. They create and explain a variety of equivalent ratios that represent a given situation. Students draw a picture...

Learners arrange the planets according to their distances from the sun. In this astronomy lesson, students list interesting properties about each planet. They identify an unknown planet photo.

Third graders create a box big enough to hold a million dollars. This is a project fun to do near the winter holidays with inexpensive gifts included in the boxes. This hands-on lesson very effectively demonstrates the concept of volume.

This unit encourages students to assess the validity of a set of statements and then plan and carry out investigations to find out whether the statements are true. Students then carry out statistical investigations of their own.

Students perform mathematical operations on complex numbers. After a lecture/demo, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice performing operations on complex numbers.

Students collect data and make a frequency table, change ratios into percents, and analyze data to make predictions.

Students integrate the language, concepts and skills of math into the daily routine and classroom environment. They think mathematically by participating in short, daily, individual, small group, whole group and transitional activities...

In this mathematical worksheet, learners convert fifteen metric units of capacity and multiply and divide whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.

Learners explore the concept of solving two-step equations. In this solving two-step equations lesson, students watch a short video about solving equations. Learners view a PowerPoint presentation about solving two-step equations....

Second graders use a number line to practice subtraction.  In this subtraction lesson, 2nd graders use a number line to count backwards.  Students participate in mad math activities and solve problems.

Students study rectangles. In this math lesson, students use numbers, measurements and geometry to draw rectangles of varying sizes.

In this game, you must put fractions, decimals, and percents in the correct order. These appear on the blooms of a flower stem, which at full growth, have seven blooms. When these are in the correct sequence, you can harvest the flower,...

Students learn about the concept of ordering fractions and decimals by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.

This resource allows user to test their knowledge of fractions.

A large collection of links to interactive activities and games on the topic of decimals.

The interactive activity has students place decimals and fractions on the correct place on a number line.

Sequencing skills are the focus of this interactive game. You must be able to put fractions, decimals, whole numbers, and negative numbers in correct order to win and make the train move down the tracks. Immediate feedback given to...

Explore fractions and decimals with Tony at the baseball field through these leveled learning exercises.

After completing a step by step activity to order fractions and decimals then test your knowledge.

Arrange the decimals by clicking them in order from lowest to highest. Included is a help button if you are stuck!

This video tutorial reviews how to order fractions and decimals by converting the numbers to either all fractions or all decimals. It includes detailed examples.

This resource contains several links that lead to discussions on several topics of decimals, including converting and comparing with fractions, rounding, estimating, and basic operations. Each page includes examples and some sample...

On this interactive site students learn to express hundredths as fractions and decimals, place decimals in ascending order, and represent simple fractions and decimals as percents.