Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Start Stop Counting
Get your students moving with this fun counting game. Pick any number between one and one hundred and students will practice counting forward or backward with this "Duck Duck Goose" type game.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Bobbie Bear's Buttons
The purpose of this task is for students to find different pairs of numbers that sum to 4. Students will solve an everyday problem in their head and then model their solution using counters. They can represent their solutions using...
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Illustrative Mathematics: What Makes a Teen Number?
Learners will learn about teen numbers by understanding the base-ten structure of teen numbers. They will fill-in a 10-frame and a blank equation as they complete the activity. Worksheet included.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Dice Addition 1
Students will practice counting, adding, and writing numerals with this activity. This would be an ideal independent activity for centers. An example of student work is included.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Longer and Heavier? Shorter and Heavier?
Learners will compare the length and weight of several pairs of objects to learn that weight and length are separate measurable attributes, and not always related.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Shape Hunt Part 2
The objective of this game is for learners to find and identify shapes by going on a scavenger hunt. Students go to the assigned area with a blank paper with 6 empty slots. When the student finds a shape they can copy it onto their paper...
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Illustrative Mathematics: Shape Sequence Search
This activity tests the student's understanding of patterns. The teacher will read a pattern and the student will find the row or column that contains each sequence. Example included.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Shape Hunt Part 1
Young scholars will take part in a scavenger hunt for shapes. Teachers will hide numbered, pre-cut shapes around the classroom. Students will hunt for the shapes with a blank paper with 6 empty slots. When the student finds a shape they...
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Illustrative Mathematics: Alike or Different Game
Students work in pairs and take turns drawing two cards. These cards have pictures of different shapes. The students are asked to describe what is similar or different between the two shapes. This type of task lays the foundation for the...
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Illustrative Mathematics: Teen Go Fish
Students will play "Go Fish" using teen numbers to practice identifying these numbers.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Rainbow Number Line
The teacher will prepare number lines for the young scholars to trace. These number lines can be taped to the desk to be used for number recognition, sequencing, counting, "number forward", and "number backward" activities. An example is...
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Illustrative Mathematics: Goodie Bags
Pairs of students will compare 3 quantities and order them from least to greatest. Students will select a pre-filled baggie and sort and count the contents. They will then arrange each group in order from least to most. This activity can...
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Illustrative Mathematics: Which Number Is Greater? Which Number Is Less?
The teacher will show the class two groups of objects or drawings of objects for the students to compare using greater than/less than language. Students will discuss in pairs how they know which number is greater or less than the other...
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Illustrative Mathematics: The Napping House
The teacher reads "The Napping House" to the class, stopping each time a person or animal gets into the bed so the students can add a counter to the ten-frame. Ten-Frame printable is included.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Number Rods
This activity gives young scholars practice counting for meaning using unifix cubes or snap cubes. Students will count the number of unifix cubes then match the rod up to the correct number on a number line. Extension activities are...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.3 and a rei.d.12: Fishing Adventures 3
During this illustrated lesson, learners will write and solve inequalities, and they will represent their solutions graphically. Aligns with A-CED.A.3 and A-REI.D.12.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.1 & a rei.d.1: Intro. To Polynomials: College
This task serves as an introduction to polynomials or as an application after students are familiar with exponential functions. Aligns with A-REI.D.11.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.c.7 & a rei.d.10: A Linear and Quadratic System
The purpose of this task is to give young scholars the opportunity to make connections between equations and the geometry of the graphs. Aligns with A-REI.C.7and A-REI.D.10.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.c.6: Find a System
The purpose of this task is to encourage students to think critically about both the algebraic and graphical interpretation of systems of linear equations. Aligns with A-REI.C.6.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.d.10: Collinear Points
This task leads young scholars through a series of problems which illustrate a crucial interplay between algebra and geometry. Aligns with A-REI.D.10.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.c.6: Accurately Weighing Pennies I
In this problem, students will use the number of decimal places in the coefficients to motivate writing and solving a system of equations. Aligns with A-REI.C.6.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.b.4.a: Visualizing Completion of the Square
The purpose of this visualization task is to help provide geometric intuition for the algebraic process called ''completing the square.'' Aligns with HSA-REI.B.4.a.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A rei.b: Integer Solutions to Inequality
This task provides an instance of illustrating cluster without being limited to only linear equalities. Aligns with A-REI.B.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Apr: Zeroes & Factorization: Non Polynomial
The goal of this task is to show via a concrete example that the property of polynomials is not shared by all functions when zero is involved. Aligns with A-APR.B.2.