National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Salads
Lettuce talk for a moment about your culinary scholars; do they have what it takes to create a great salad? Show them the finer points of salad preparation with a career and technology lesson plan that combines direct instruction,...
Bowland
Speed Cameras
Do speed cameras help reduce accidents? Scholars investigate this question using a series of spreadsheet activities. Along the way, they learn about randomness, probability, and statistical analysis.
Curated OER
Geo-Class Mapping My Neighborhood
Students create a map of the school and surrounding neighborhood. In this mapping lesson, students discover their school's location and learn about its past. Students use math skills and the steps in the design process to complete the...
Practical Money Skills
Saving and Investing
You have to have money to make money, especially in the world of banking and investments. High schoolers learn about interest rates, saving and investment options, and ways to stay aware of their money's security and earning ability with...
Practical Money Skills
Making Decisions
Money represents decisions: spending decisions, saving decisions, and investing decisions. Encourage young adults to think about the decisions they make with their money in a three-day unit about personal finance, consumer spending, and...
Practical Money Skills
Buying a Home
Guide high schoolers through the process of buying a house with a simulation lesson. As pupils learn about mortgages, renting versus buying, and home inspections, they discuss ways to make informed financial decisions and sound purchases.
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Operations for Problem-Solving
Students examine a problem and develop the best method to arrive at the solution. In this math lesson plan, students apply basic math skills by coming up with the correct steps to solve a word problem. Students estimate solutions as...
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Exercise Require Mathematical Operation 3
In this math skills instructional activity, students solve 1 multiple choice problem that requires them to read a story problem and select the appropriate number sentence that represents the problem. Students may view the correct...
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Exercise Require Mathematical Operation 10
In this math skills worksheet, students solve 1 multiple choice problem that requires them to read a story problem and select the appropriate number sentence that represents the problem. Students may view the correct answers.
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Exercise Require Mathematical Operation 14
In this math skills activity, students solve 1 multiple choice problem that requires them to read a story problem and select the appropriate number sentence that represents the problem. Students may view the correct answers.
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Candy Land
In this activity students pretend that they have been hired by a candy manufacturer to design a box for a new product they are beginning to market. The manufacturer has pre-determined the volume of the candy box. It is the students' job...
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How Tall is that Tree?
Students apply their math skills to develop an accurate estimate of the height of a tall tree. Three different methods are outlined. All grade levels should be able to perform the shadow method and the proportional method.
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Planning a Trip for Christopher Columbus
First graders plan a trip for Christopher Columbus. They use their math skills to construct a ship for Columbus' voyage. They show their ship and calculations to their classmates and build graphs to show the amount of supplies needed to...
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Adding More
Use this attractive worksheet to help your class practice basic addition skills. Learners answer six questions in which they add on to an amount shown.
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Using A Digital Camera With HyperStudio
Students take and import pictures for use in a testing template, one page for each of the four basic functions of math. Students interact with an already designed HyperStudio template to develop a test of basic math skills.
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Multiple Operations (K)
In this multiple operations activity, 4th graders enhance their math skills by solving the 30 addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
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Multiple Operations (L)
In this multiple operations worksheet, 4th graders enhance their math skills by solving the 30 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems.
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Multiple Operations (P)
In this mathematical operations worksheet, 4th graders enhance their math skills by solving the 30 addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
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Multiple Operations (C)
In this multiple operations worksheet, students improve their math skills by solving the 30 addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
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Multiple Operations (D)
In this multiple operations worksheet, 4th graders enhance their math skills by solving the 30 addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
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Two-Step Problems and Money Concepts
Elementary schoolers solve two-step equations and practice money concepts. They solve multi-step addition and subtraction contextual problems and apply money concepts to real life situations. Pupils use pictures and counters to help them...
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Pumpkin Problems
Students participate in a lesson that has the intention of working on estimation skills. They use pumpkins to estimate the number of seeds are inside. They collect data for each pumpkin and compare it to the estimation. Students question...
CK-12 Foundation
Add and Subtract Three Mixed Numbers: Walking to School
Mixed numbers are the focus of a five-question interactive. Scholars move fraction pieces into strips and equations to find solutions. Questions challenge participants with multiple-choice, a true or false, and one discussion.
Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies
Perimeter & Area Worksheet 1
Test your mathematicians' skills with this full page of area and perimeter problems. Find the area and perimeter of different shapes including squares, parallelograms, trapezoids, and octagons. The formulas are not provided, so this...