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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Common Core Mathematics: Building Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Educator Chris Luzniak encourages his students to apply authentic mathematics vocabulary when discussing and defending heir ideas. [1:39]
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: k.i.m. Content Area Literacy/ Math Vocabulary Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the integration of literacy into the content area of math using a research based vocabulary strategy.
Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Estimation

For Students 4th - 6th
Improve your estimation and rounding skills with these interactive games that are challenging and fun. Excellent skills practice for rounding, estimating sums and differences, and front-end estimation. Links to lesson plans, teacher...
Interactive
Math Slice

Math Slice: Math Millionaire

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Answer only 15 questions to become a Math Millionaire when you play this interactive game that focuses on a variety of math skills. An engaging, fast paced, and fun way for learners to review math concepts. Answers are checked immediately.
Handout
Other

California Department of Education: Cahsee Math: Vocabulary [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Although part of the Study Guide for the CAHSEE, this section of the document focuses on math vocabulary which graduating students in California are expected to know. Each term is defined (often with illustrations), and translated to...
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Fractions

For Students 3rd - 8th
After viewing a video on fractions, test your knowledge with a quiz. This resource also offers related vocabulary for learners and a lesson plan and teacher guide for instructors.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Professional Development Tutorial: Increasing Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial is a sample lesson plan from a Scholastic Red session on vocabulary development.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Baseball Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learn more about baseball and math when you check out this resource. It provides a lesson plan for upper elementary to middle school students where they will use their skills in percentages, decimals and combinations.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Selecting the Related Addition Fact

For Students K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to determine which addition fact is related to the given addition problem. The video uses vocabulary of addends and sum. The video is...
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Other

Cram: Math Flashcards

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students can improve their math skills using this collection of 166 million math flashcards on all types and levels of math.
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Other

National Math + Science Initiative: Vocabulary Study: Julius Caesar [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson unit covers vocabulary used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Includes list of fifty SAT words with an accompanying glossary and references to the play, grouped under each act. This is followed by a fill-in-the-blank activity...
Activity
Other

Communication in Math Activities for Grades K 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Early learners can build their math communication skills with these "Real-world," writing and problem solving activities. Students focus on developing strategies for using math vocabulary and writing about math.
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Truth Value of Open Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
What happens when there is not enough information to solve a problem? Find out at this test prep site, how missing information or "open sentences" can change the value or truth of a math equation. Practice understanding and applying this...
Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Words for Numbers

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson explains how to write words for numbers. Includes exercises and games to practice this skill.
Activity
NumberNut

Number Nut: Basic Math: Two Digit Division

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson offers strategies for dividing two-digit numbers. Students are introduced to related vocabulary, long and short division, and two-digit division with remainders. Links to the interactive games allow students to practice and...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Vcr

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource presents an interesting challenge for the serious mathematician with strong reasoning skills. Explore proportional reasoning, probabilities, fractions, and ratios in this challenge to figure out if you always get six hours...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Upside Down (Pdf)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
What lowercase letters read the same both upside down and right side up? If you have the answer, then you can handle this geometric symmetry math challenge. A one-page activity from the NTCM Math Challenge for Families collection....
Activity
History is Fun

Jan Brett: Ordinal Numbers: Cats in Line Activity Page

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Math and literature meet in this interactive game exploring ordinal numbers. Based on the cat tale, Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett, this activity is sure to engage students in developing number order skills. Learners receive immediate...
Handout
Math Words

Math Words: Alternating Series Test

For Students 9th - 10th
This site begins with the general form of an alternating series and then gives an easy to follow discussion of how to determine if an alternating series is convergent.
Interactive
Arcademics

Arcademics: Tug Team Giraffe Pull Time Words

For Students 2nd - 8th
Giraffe Pull is a multi-player game that allows students from anywhere in the world to play tug of war with each other while practicing telling time!
Website
Cut the Knot

Cut the Knot!: Mathematics as a Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A sophisticated discussion on the language of mathematics, its origins, meanings, and precision.
Interactive
Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Numbers in German 10 100

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Study numbers in German and practice identifying them with math problems.
Assessment
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: General "Transformation" Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a short discussion of transformations. The discussion has few pictures and expresses the transformations in terms of relative coordinates rather than pictures.
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Types of Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is "Logic"? What is a "Mathematical sentence"? This website provides definitions of both of these terms and defines examples of mathematical sentences ("open sentence" and "closed sentence") and provides examples of each. Use the...