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Measurement Masterpiece

For Teachers K - 5th
Here is a good, cross-curricular measurement and estimation lesson. Learners practice measuring paper strips to create an art project. This is a great way to introduce the ruler, and how it used, to your students.
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Standard Units of Measure

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore linear measurement. They choose appropriate measuring tools, measure three classroom items, and record their results.  A class discussion ensues in which everyone decides the best way to present their data.
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Take Ten: Make Cleaning Up More Fun with Predictions and Counting

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Class members predict and count how many items need to be cleaned up in class while skip counting by 10s. They estimate whether having each child clean up 10 items will be enough to get the room ready for the next day. Everyone counts...
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Water Wonders

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students measure the amount of surface tension using a balance scale after a classroom demonstration students diagram the appearance of several liquids and label them.
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Telling Time as an Everyday Use of Numbers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
How can we estimate time? Have your young mathematicians make a clock. Then they compare and contrast types of clocks. They practice writing times in two different ways and make a book about telling time.
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Tricky Triangles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the playing of a Trick Triangle Game while focusing upon developing skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They play the game and practice rounding of...
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ESTIMATION

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice estimating and counting and using a ruler to measure distance.
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Thank You... Thomas Edison!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the life of Thomas Edison. They research how he made a difference. They understand that accurate data collection is important for math. They create a chart using spreadsheet data.
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Easy Estimation

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use estimation as a math strategy. Students estimate the number of small snacks that are presented to them. Students count the snack items after they have estimated how many there are, before the class snack on a daily basis.
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Customary Units of Length

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this customary length learning exercise, students solve 4 problems where they must choose the better estimate of length. Students solve 12 problems where they must compare, convert and order customary lengths.
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Round Each Number to the Nearest Ten

For Students 1st - 4th
In this rounding instructional activity, students practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten. There are 8 numbers that students round. The answers are included at the bottom half of the page.
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Design an Apartment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given the task of designing an apartment. In groups, they practice estimating the area and perimeter of different shapes. After designing their space, they apply the same formulas to solving real-world story problems.
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Decimals: Worksheet 2

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this decimal worksheet, students solve a total of 31 decimal problems including: writing decimals, determining the smaller of 3 decimals, determining place value, rounding, filling in missing numbers and word problems.
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Just How Old Are You?

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Do you know how old you are in seconds, minutes, days, weeks, or months? This intriguing question is presented as a way for learners to estimate in units of time. They'll build a better sense of what each increment of time is as they...
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Measurement and Estimation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a table in order to record estimations and measurements of objects. In this estimation and measurement lesson plan, 3rd graders estimate and measure object's lengths, area, weight, and capacity.
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Spending Spree

For Teachers K - 4th
Students collect objects to use in a classroom store. In groups, they must place a value on each object and take turns spending their fake dollar in the store. They predict how much they can buy and use addition and subtraction to...
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Shape and Space: Symmetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss and work with lines of symmetry. In this symmetry lesson, students start with a warm up activity on metric conversion. They talk about the definition of symmetry and reflection before completing a worksheet.
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Shape Matters More!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate shapes as the area changes while the perimeter remains the same. Students demonstrate the shape/perimeter/area relationship using simulations and physical models.
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Estimation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students estimate the cost of individual items found on a typical grocery list. They participte in a teacher-led demonstration, solve word problems, and estimate the cost of ten items placed into their group's grocery basket.
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How Many Blades of Grass in a Football Field?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students, by taking a sample count from a small area, estimate the total number of blades of grass in a football field. They use a cardboard from, the inside of which measures 1 square foot to do their calculations.
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Five Second Dash

For Teachers K - 6th
Students estimate how far they can run, jump, or hop in five seconds, then check their prediction.  For this estimation lesson, student predict how far they can run, hop, or jump in five seconds and then try it.
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Population Pyramids

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students utilize population pyramids to answer questions, make comparisons, draw conclusions and support predictions about the populations of China, India and the Unites States. They arrange numbers and symbolic information from various...
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About What Time?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this telling time worksheet, students use clocks to tell time to the nearest quarter of an hour. In this fill in the blank worksheet, students write answers to six problems.
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Build a Cardboard Bridge That Can Hold Potatoes

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students identify the characteristics of a bridge and build with junk materials.  In this bridge building lesson plan, students use cereal boxes, paper towel or toilet paper tubes and tape to create their bridges.  Bridges...

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