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Finding Sales Tax
Seventh graders investigate sales tax. Following a teacher demonstration, they find sales tax and the total cost of items. In groups, classmates choose items from a menu that they would like to purchase. Each student figures the sales...
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Constructing Tangrams
Seventh graders visualize and identify geometric shapes after applying transformations on a coordinate plane. In this tangrams lesson, 7th graders construct a set of tangrams and then answer extension questions related to measurement,...
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Going Whole Hog
Young scholars participate in a game in which they compare fractions and graph the fractions.
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Who's In The Fact Family?
Students study related addition and subtraction facts. In this math lesson, students use related addition and subtraction to solve problems. Students use manipulatives to explore fact families.
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Conversions: Metrics Made Easy
Students convert standard units of measurement to metric units using tape measures, meter sticks, rulers, and online conversion calculators.
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Sorting Nets
Students explore sorting networks. In this computer science lesson, students problem solve as they investigate a parallel processing sorting network.
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Party Time
Students explore the cost of a party. In this math lesson plan, students plan a party and determine the cost of hosting a party. Students use information from grocery stores to determine the unit cost of items for the party.
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Tangram Fractions
Students explore tangram puzzles. In this tangram fraction lesson plan, students read Grandfather Tang and then practice solving tangram puzzles. Students identify fractions of the pieces of the tangram puzzles and then create a design...
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Fractions
Students practice measurement. In this fractions lesson, 6th graders measure volume of a liquid, e.g. 1/5 liter, and learn the vocabulary of fractions (numerator, denominator). Students solve sample problems in small...
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Money Circulation: A Story of Trade and Commerce
Learners are introduced to the meaning, symbolism, and value of the quarter. They determine the percentage of total monetary value held in quarters and graph the results. Students infer about the U.S. Mint's distrubution of coins. They...
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Coin Drop
Students calculate the theoretical and empirical probability by dropping coins on a grid. They record their data and compare the theoretical and empirical data. Students make predictions about the results before conducting the experiment.
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Math: How Many Ways Can You Find the Middle?
Twelfth graders find the mean, median, and modes of stacks of Lego blocks, They search in newspapers for real life applications of them. They present oral reports on what they have learned.
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Buying My First Car
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.
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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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Planet Picking
Students arrange the planets according to their distances from the sun. In this astronomy instructional activity, students list interesting properties about each planet. They identify an unknown planet photo.
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Complexity
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.
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Code Breakers
Pupils collect data and make a frequency table, change ratios into percents, and analyze data to make predictions.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Number and Operations in Base Ten 5.nbt.3b Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of place value, comparing numbers, and ordering numbers with decimals.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Order Decimals
Order 3 decimals with digits up to the thousandths from least to greatest. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Pecking Order
Pecking Order is an educational game for kids to practice number values with fractions, percents, and decimals. The object of the game is to arrange the different birds from least to greatest on a number line as quickly as possible...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Comparing and Ordering Decimals
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of comparing and ordering decimals. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Decimals Order
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows decimal numbers to be ordered in both ascending and descending order with up to three decimal places.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.nbt Placing Thousandths on the Number Line
This task asks students to order decimal numbers to the thousandths on a number line between 0 and 0.1. Aligns with 5.NBT.A.3.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.nbt Comparing Decimals on the Number Line
This task presents four pairs of decimal numbers and asks students to compare them and place them on number lines. Aligns with 5.NBT.A.3.