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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Counting with Place Value, with the Abacus

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study an abacus while counting marathon runners.  For this place value lesson, students watch a video segment on how counters keep track of marathon runners to reinforce the idea of place value.  
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs of the I Ching

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity was developed to be used in conjunction with the NUMB3RS episode "Undercurrent," in which a victim is found with a Chinese hexagram tattoo. Students will learn about trigrams and hexagrams, Chinese characters made from...