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Under the Weather

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students review mean, median, mode, and range while using the newspaper to answer weather questions.
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Curated OER

Leaves, Flowers, Seashells, Mirrors and Symmetry

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars develop an understanding of patterns and symmetry. In this symmetry and pattern lesson, students use real world patterns then analyze and extend them. Young scholars also use real world items while discovering and...
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Build a Snowplow

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils design and build a snowplow using LEGO materials. They compete in an Engineer's Challenge to clear a path through Styrofoam peanuts.
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Curated OER

Rock'n Robin

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students wall line dance given specific steps given to them by the teacher.
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Curated OER

Tortillas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students convert recipes for tortillas. They calculate the amounts of ingredients as they convert recipes and write an explanation of the task to demonstrate their calculations. After reviewing their calculations, they demonstrate how...
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Curated OER

Capturing the Wind

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students collect and analyze data about wind speed. They build a Lego wind sail and measure the wind speed with a rotation sensor. They use software to analyze the data.
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Legs in the Barn

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to the problem being read. They then brainstorm possible approaches and are encouraged to plan ways of recording their work so that others examine what they have done and share their findings.
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Curated OER

Math Vocabulary Review

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math vocabulary activity, learners read a set of 15 math related definitions and write the words being defined. A reference web site is included for additional activities. 
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Fuel Saving

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore the problem of percentages. Students find a given fraction or percentage of a quantity. Students devise and use problem solving strategies on problems explored.
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Wings and Othe Things

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students work in groups that are engaged in different activities at different times. They watch the video "Madagascar" and collect data pertaining to the Fish Eagle's arm spam. They work together to perform mathematical computations...
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Coin Conversions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders engage in the study of conversions from decimals to percents while examining monetary values. They explain the relationships between the equivalency interchanging decimals with percents. Then students write about the...
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Curated OER

students rotate through four workstations that reinforce the concept of symmetry

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in pairs, use arrays to explore the relationship between multiplication and division.
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Curated OER

Math Vocabulary Fill-In Puzzle

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math vocabulary puzzle, students use a set of definition clues given to solve a crossword puzzle. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Curated OER

Jobs and Salaries

For Students 9th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, high schoolers look for the budgets and go through the practical activities of maintaining a monthly expense sheet.
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Curated OER

Gulls

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to the problem and think about the first question and the number operation that they would use and explain. They work in pairs and record their solutions so that they can be displayed and shared.
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Curated OER

Olympic Games - Can You Measure Up?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students complete 6 units to learn about Ancient Greece and the Olympic games through physical education activities as well as math activities. In this Ancient Greece lesson, students complete multiple activities in 6 lessons including...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Compare Parts of a Whole

For Teachers 4th Standards
Given a set of fractions students will be able to compare unit fractions by using models to determine that the more equal parts there are in the whole, the smaller each part will be. This instructional activity includes a detailed plan,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: A Whole and Its Parts

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders take fractions apart and put them back together to form a whole.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Fraction of a Whole

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on determining what part of a whole has been shaded.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Completing the Whole Add Together

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The interactive practice problems involve completing the whole by determining what portion of the diagram or fraction are missing to make the whole. When students...
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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.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions

For Teachers 4th Standards
Understanding that when the total number of parts of a whole are the same, fractions can be added.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Understanding Fractions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson the children will demonstrate parts of a whole using a candy bar (or fruit), and piece of paper. The activities are used as instructional plans to help students better understand shapes and parts of a shape up to a whole....
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Partner Square Painting: The Whole and Its Parts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kids will have fun snapping chalk lines onto paper and then painting in the parts. Can be used as a way to teach parts and their relation to the whole or even more complex as fractions.

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