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Heart Mind Online: 5 Step Problem Solving for Young Children
Even young children can be taught to solve their problems peacefully with this 5 step process. A lesson plan is included that allows students to practice this skill.
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Hopelink: Math Lesson Idea: Word Problems
Teach your students to reason with language and to use imagery to translate language into mathematical equations.
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Success Link: Exploring Limits and Recursive Sequences
A well laid-out lesson plan that uses a classroom simulation to show the medicine level in the body over a period of time. Students track on a chart the process of intake/elimination and problem solve what happens to the medicine over time.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Voting for Two, Variation 4
Students use ratio reasoning to solve the following performance task: John and Will ran for 6th grade class president. John got two votes for every vote Will got. It was necessary to get more than half the votes to get elected. What...
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Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars
For this lesson, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and then they...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Building Shapes
Based on building a hexagon, this activity from the Math Forum collection focuses on using different combinations of pattern blocks to create a hexagon. An online activity, pencil and paper method, literature connections, and a...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Anti Suffragists
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to study a speech and anti-suffrage literature to explore...
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American Society for Engineering Education: E Gfi: Jingle Bell Silencer Challenge
Can you muffle the sound of a jingle bell using a variety of Christmas-themed items? Explore your sense of hearing in this simple activity. Includes a video of Gemini astronauts playing Jingle Bells while in space in 1965. [1:22]
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