California Education Partners
Four Square Wars
Obviously, four is the perfect number when you're playing Four Square. Scholars first use multiplication and division to solve a set of problems on the number of balls needed, the number of games, and the number of players required for a...
Yummy Math
Movies ~ Oscars 2013
Using a popular topic, the movies, your class can meet a Common Core criterion. They compare box office movie returns, adjust older movies' incomes for inflation, and in this way use the four operations to solve real-world problems. This...
Curated OER
Flow Chart Secret Code: What Should You Call A Cow That Lives in Alaska?
In this math code worksheet, students solve 10 multi-step problems using all math operations. Students start with the given number and perform each step in a flow chart format. Students take their total answer and decode the secret message.
Curated OER
Word Problems - Measurement and Length
This presentation focuses on the solving of math problems that utilize all four basic operations, and deal with calculations of length and measurement. Before attempting to solve the problem, learners must decide which operation the...
EduGAINs
Making Savvy Consumer Choices
It's never too early to learn about grocery budgeting. Middle schoolers delve into the world of consumer math with a lesson that focuses on both healthy choices and real-world math applications. Groups work together to form a grocery...
Education Institute
Four Mathematics Lessons for Grade 9
These four lesson plans build algebra skills for working with numbers in exponential form and for examining triangles. Be aware that in the text, scientific notation is referred to as index notation and the laws of exponents as the laws...
Curated OER
Getting Started with Math By Hand Concept App
Pupils build number sense skills and gain confidence at math by hand. Review how to perform algorithms for the four basic operations. A step-by-step mode emphasizes place value in the base-ten system for each algorithm. Learners identify...
Curated OER
Digit/Symbol Cards
Pupils learn to recognize the digits from 1-10 and the four math operation signs by cutting apart the digit and symbol cards. There are no directions about what learners are to do with them.
Curated OER
Calculators
Students investigate the four basic operations of mathematics that are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The use of a technology game is part of the lesson. They demonstrate the proper use of a calculator as part of...
Curated OER
Which Sign?
A simple presentation focuses on choosing the correct operational sign. Young learners consider simple sentences such as, "Seven take away three," and they must choose whether a plus sign or a minus sign would be appropriate to use....
Curated OER
Ratio and Proportion: Basic Operations and Applications
Learners explore example problems dealing with ratios and proportions. Afterward, they read story problems and solve them using ratios and proportions. This four-page worksheet contains six multi-step problems.
Curated OER
Order of Operations
Learners analyze the Order of Operations. They play a game to explore Order of Operations and observe a PowerPoint presentation slide sow. They generate patterns and functions to represent and solve problems. Students model and solve...
Curated OER
Math Vocabulary
Fourth graders participate in a creative way to learn and remember important math vocabulary. This lesson plan incorporates music to help students remember the meaning of each math operation and the vocabulary associated with it. A very...
Curated OER
Krypto Math Game
Students play a math game. In this number sense and mental math lesson, students play a game where they use mental math to form equations that result in the target number required to win the game.
EngageNY
Using Matrix Operations for Encryption
Data encryption is an important security measure for sensitive data stored on computers. Pupils learn how to utilize matrices for creating code. They also get a great review of matrix multiplication, inverse matrices, and the identity...
Curated OER
Word Problems
Here is a very nice resource that presents 12 math word problems suitable for third and fourth graders. All four of the basic operations are used in these one-step problems. An answer key is provided on page two. This would make a very...
DK Publishing
Real-Life Word Problems, Part 6
Bring math alive with these five word problems. Using multiplication and division in a space for writing equations, fourth graders solve the word problems and practice writing out the answers in a separate area. Helpful as either a...
Delaware Math Cadre Elementary Committee
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
How to use the relationship between multiplication and division to solve math word problems is the focus of the activity presented here. In it, fourth graders work in groups to solve problems posed by the teacher. Then, each group is...
MLC
Decimals Worksheets
Make sure your students' understanding of fractions is on-point using this series of skills practice worksheets. Covering a variety of topics from basic place value and fraction/decimal conversion, to performing all four operations with...
Curated OER
Order of operations - Basic four operations
In this order of operations worksheet, students complete problems with all four basic operations containing numbers up to the number 12. Students complete 5 problems.
Curated OER
Simplifying Using "The Order of Operations" Worksheet
For this order of operations worksheet, students solve equations with one variable using order of operations. Equations contain fractions, exponents, parenthesis, and the four basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication...
Curated OER
Hands Up Math
Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of using all four operations in order to create numerical expressions. They practice creating various patterns of problems that could be solved. The expressions are works of...
Curated OER
Operation: Math
Students use critical thinking skills about math operations and practice using previously taught math skills. They solve a puzzle where they have to replace an * with the correct operation to complete the number sentence.
Noyce Foundation
Apple Farm Field Trip
Monitor the growth of young mathematicians with a comprehensive addition and subtraction assessment. Using the context of a class field trip to an apple orchard, this series of four story problems allows children to demonstrate their...