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Humongous Vegetables
Humongous vegetables can inspire and awaken your mathematicians to the large math concepts in our Common Core standards. What is the secret to growing such gargantuan garden objects in Alaska? In the state that is closest to the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Identifying Multiples
Administer an activity that fosters a child's understanding of multiples. Young mathematicians are guided to complete three tasks on a multiplication chart. Once they color the boxes with multiples of two, three, and four, learners...
Curated OER
Real-Life Problems: Money
Help your fourth graders become responsible consumers with this math worksheet! They solve six word problems about buying toys using the four operations. An example at the top of the page helps pupils write out the necessary equations...
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Real-Life Problems: Time #2
How well can your third and fourth graders tell time? What about in word problems? Practice both with a worksheet that features five word problems about telling tme. Pupils use all four operations to solve the problems in spaces provided...
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Multiplies of 8
Master mental math using multiples of eight. It features several different types of multiplication problems, such as written equations, horizontal equations, and word problems. The 8 times table is at the top of the page for quick...
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Real-Life Problems: Measures
Do your fifth graders have trouble writing out their work for word problems? Use this instructional activity about measurements and the four equations, which provides separate spaces to write the equations and the answers. A nice way to...
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Multiples of 7
What is three sevens? What about five sevens? Practice times tables with a worksheet that provides several ways to multiply seven by different numbers. The last section features two word problems and spaces to write the answers. This...
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Speed Problems
Return to the classic word problem with these speed scenarios. Learners use some combination of the variables speed, distance, and speed to solve six problems, all of which ask for one of these as an answer. The examples do a nice job of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Estimation Station: Why Estimating is Better than Guessing
Youngsters discover the difference between estimating and guessing. They estimate how many items are contained in a jar as they read a story. After the story, pupils discover the differences between estimating and guessing and create a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Comparing Fuel Economy
Compute fuel economy and gas mileage. Why? So you can teach rates and ratios, of course! Middle schoolers calculate the rate of miles per gallon for various vehicles. They research each vehicle, its mileage per gallon, and cost per...
Curated OER
Multiplication & Division
Helpful for building a multiplication unit that focuses on different strategies. With explanations about repeated addition and subtraction as foundations for multiplication, scaling, summaries of progression, and basic multiplication and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Fun with Problem Solving
Using a varity of strategies, young mathematicians solve multistep word problems. They play a logic game as a whole group, and then work with a partner on a computer to complete a worksheet that requires a variety of problem solving...
Curated OER
Oklahoma's Berry Best
Ask your learners to complete activities related to Oklahoma's agriculture, berries in particular. The lesson is cross-curricular and has class members investigate an article about berries, write an acrostic poem, and discuss new...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Number Clues
Learners practice problem solving. In this number identification lesson plan, students practice identifying numbers based on clues or characteristics given. They also work in groups to identify the clues for given numbers.
Curated OER
The Beet Goes On
Root vegetables inspire the series of activities included here. Class members participate in activities related to language arts, social studies, science, visual art, and math. At first, the long list might feel overwhelming; however,...
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Ag In The Outfield
Young scholars explore baseball. This is a cross-curricular plan that includes math, history, and agriculture. Pupils use their five senses to observe the materials a baseball is made from and identify the agricultural products used. In...
Other
Casting Out Nines: A Math Computation Checking Strategy
It's a mathematician's dream come true. An easy trick for checking mathematical computations, without a calculator! Believe it or not, it works with all four operations.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Word Problem Videos
This lesson includes several sets of word problems for student practice. Each problem has a video that demonstrates how to reach the solution.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Thinking Blocks
This lesson teaches students how to use colored blocks to model word problems. There are several sets of problems each for addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, and ratio word problems.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Problem Solving Techniques
Different approaches to incorporate problem-solving skills into the elementary mathematics classroom.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Number Slice Special Test
A succinct test on number concepts including problem solving, basic operations, and computation. Assessment is scored online and student score is compared with other student test scores. Great for use as a quick assessment.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Problem Solving Database
Need some challenging problem-solving work for your students in the following areas: Discrete, Geometry, Numbers, and Code Breaking? This is the place for an enormous database of problems aimed at high school age students. They are...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Subtracting Word Problems Numbers Up to 20
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows a subtraction word problem with numbers less than 20 and describes how to solve the problem. The video is followed by a series of practice questions...
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Math stories.com
MathStories.com provides tons of resources, entitled "House of Math Word Problems for Children." The site includes problems, state standards, and more.