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Use Proprotions To Solve Word Problems
Eighth graders explore ratios and proportions and how they are used in day to day life. As an activity, they find their own heart rate and then take a survey of other heart rates in the room. After organizing the data, 8th graders use...
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Tony's Tiger BITES
Students work with the concept of equivalent fractions. In this equivalent fraction worksheet, students double a recipe, triple a recipe, and reduce a recipe for Tiger BITES by one-half and one-quarter. They apply multiplication and...
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Fractions in the Kitchen
Seventh graders use the World Wide Web for research, identify fractions found in everyday life by finding a recipe that uses fractions.
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Physical Education Recipes for Success
Students apply math skills to actual situations they may use.
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Cuisenaire Chefs
Students study the fractional values of Cuisenaire rods while working with favorite family recipes.
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Word Problems Using Metric Measurement
In this math worksheet, students solve 30 real life word problems using metric measurement. The problems pertain to cooking, shopping, taking medicine and car maintenance.
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Using Irregular Verbs-Exercise 3
In this irregular verb worksheet, students fill in the blank in a set of 20 sentences, using the correct verb for each. Online link is available on worksheet.
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Fraction Sugar Cookies
Fifth graders practice addition, subtraction,and conversion of fractions by making cookies from a recipe. Students convert mixed number into compound fractions and combine fractions using addition in order to make a certain amount of...
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Mystery Recipe Lab
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of cooking a new recipe. The book "Cook-a-Doodle-Doo" is used to create the context for the lesson. They use the ingredients and recipe in the lesson and work in groups in...
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The Best Pancake Recipe
In this pancakes worksheet, students read a description of a pancake recipe and complete word problems based on it. Students complete 10 problems.
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Christianity-Lent: Pancake Recipe
In this Lenten worksheet, students follow instructions to make the traditional Lenten pancake recipe in honor of the Christian season.
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Introduction to Fractions Using Cuisenaire Rods
Fifth graders use Cuisenaire rods in order to discover how to represent fractions with real objects. In this lesson on fractions, 5th graders first examine and learn the colors, lengths, and numerical values of each rod; then, students...
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Fraction Word Problems
For this fraction worksheet, students solve a set of 8 word problems, all using fractions. A website reference is given for additional activities.
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Really Big Pumpkins
You may think your holiday pumpkins weigh a ton, but in a giant pumpkin contest, they actually do! Middle schoolers read about the winners of the 2014 giant pumpkin contests before solving three word problems involving multiplication and...
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Soccer Snacks
Make the cookies healthy. The assessment task asks pupils to determine the number of cookies they could make based on a given amount of ingredients. Given two sugar substitutes, learners determine which substitute would be better and...
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Fractions in Everyday Life
Students apply understanding of fractions by converting a recipe to feed the class and the whole grade level. They calculate how many cookies the class would eat and multiply each fraction in the recipe accordingly.
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Divide by a Unit Fraction
In this dividing by unit fractions practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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A Hidden Beauty
Expose the beautiful mystery of bulbs as young botanists learn all about these fascinating plants. They glean information from a short text before observing actual bulbs (consider an onion), and comparing their findings with predictions....
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Are You My Little Peanut?
Fourth graders explore the mass and length of peanuts by pretending to parent a peanut. In this mode, median and range lesson students graph their measurements and then use them to find the mode, median and range. Students discuss peanut...
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Pi Day Fun!
In this multi-faceted introduction to pi, participants perform a bevy of pi-related activities. Ranging from measuring household items to singing pi songs and reading pi stories, this fun and non-intimidating resource serves to bring up...
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Cooking Up the Scientific Method
First graders identify the different steps of the scientific method. In this life science instructional activity, 1st graders apply this method when conducting a series of hands-on activities. They collect data and write observations in...
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Add Fractions: Problem Solving
In this adding fractions worksheet, 5th graders solve the problems using fractions. Students use the soup recipes with fractional ingredients to help them solve the problems.
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Cooking Up Something Good
Students compare and convert units of measurement within the United States customary system and within the metric system by baking cookies. Students discuss how to double the cookie recipe, how to make only half of the recipe, and how to...
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Feed The Whole Class
Students solve word problems and determine quotients of fractions and mixed numbers. They practice multiplying fractions by increasing a recipe found on a food website. In addition, they increase the numbers to feed the whole class a...