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Curated OER

Volume Review

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners investigate the concepts of volume for rectangular prisms and spheres. They measure the volume of one balloon and then consider how many breaths it would take to fill the room with balloons. The rectangular prism being measured...
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PBS

Surface Area and Volume

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
You and your class will like this lesson on using visual models to relate the volume and surface area of solid shapes. Learners construct three-dimensional forms using nets. They calculate the surface area and volume for each and then...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Multiplication Sequences, Multiplying with Exponents

For Students 5th - 6th
For this math worksheet, students practice making six multiplication sequences. Students write an explanation of four sequences. Students also practice multiplying with exponents by completing twenty problems.
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Curated OER

An Easier Way to Count: Using Groups of 10

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore their counting skills. In this counting lesson, students group objects in sets of 10 to practice counting them. Students also practice graphing the sets of objects they count.  This lesson incorporates the use a video...
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World Wildlife Fund

Take 6

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Investigate the various properties of the number six with this elementary math lesson. From simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems to the creation of hexagonal tessellations, this lesson covers all aspects of...
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Curated OER

Try Tessellation

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Most middle schoolers probably feel that quilting is at best an activity left to their grandmothers. This lesson uses the Zome modeling system to get them to realize how shapes in quilting are really tessellations and repeating patterns....
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Curated OER

Interpreting and Displaying Sets of Data

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the concept of interpreting data. In this interpreting data lesson, students make a line plot of themselves according to the number of cubes they can hold in their hand. Students create their own data to graph and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

One and Tens Place Value - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 1st - 3rd
Give your pupils a grasp of place value in a two-digit number. They see a drawing of counting cubes in a stick of ten, then examine a set of four. Mathematicians determine how many blocks there are by grouping the tens. Ideally, you will...
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Curated OER

Sorting 3-Dimensional Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
The sorting is simple here: Does this three-dimensional figure have a curved surface or not? Scholars review an example before trying this on their own with nine figures including a sphere, cylinder, prism, cube, cone, and pyramid. They...
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Curated OER

Sorting 3-Dimensional Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Does it have corners? Scholars sort three-dimensional figures into one of two categories based on whether or not they have corners. They look at six shapes: sphere, cylinder, cone, cube, prism, and pyramid. For each, learners write the...
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Curated OER

Analogies

For Students 5th - 8th
In this math analogies worksheet, students respond to 4 questions that require them to analyze the relationships between math words. Students then write their own math analogies.
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Curated OER

Triangles

For Students 10th
In this triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve 10 different problems that include determining the measurement of various angles. First, they determine the area of a triangle illustrated on the sheet. Then, students use the picture to...
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Curated OER

Happy Birthday Mathematicians and Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students choose a mathematician or scientist born on the same day as the student and research them. They create a cube or tetrahedron and place required information on the sides (such as birth year, death yr., greatest contribution to...
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Curated OER

Cubic Number Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this cubic number worksheet, students find the cubes of 24 one and two digit numbers. They enter the answers on-line and print the pages as needed.
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Curated OER

Count on Math

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students develop number sense up to a million.  In this developing number sense up to a million lesson, students count their breaths in given time span.  Students use blocks representing 10's and 100's to create a million.  Students use...
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Curated OER

Cube Models

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders are introduced to the concepts of area and volume. In groups, they work together to build models of square centimeters in which they are given no instructions. To end the lesson, they record the dimensions of each model...
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Teach Surface Area and Volume in the Most Engaging Way!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Build a Zarcon-proof home as a math activity that will provide tremendous advantages for engagement, for differentiation, and for mastery of concepts. This activity focuses specifically on surface area and volume using mathematical...
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Curated OER

Regrouping Ten Ones for One Ten

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore regrouping. In this hands-on math place value lesson, students construct models using connecting cubes and place value mats to solve simple addition problems that require regrouping.
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Curated OER

Challenge: Five in a Row with Decimal Numbers

For Students 6th - 9th
In this multiplication worksheet, students play a game with 2 number cubes or dice where they substitute decimals for the numbers on the cubes.  Students multiply the decimals together then find the corresponding product on a 5 by 5 game...
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Curated OER

Surface Area practice 17.4

For Students 4th - 6th
For this finding the surface area worksheet, students determine the surface areas of solid figures, complete the areas of a face and surface area of a cube in a table, and answer word problems. Students answer fourteen questions.
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Curated OER

Lesson One: Perimeter, Area, Volume

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore perimeter, area and volume. Using geoboards, toothpicks, and marshmallows, students create specific shapes. They are directed to use formulas to find the volume, area, and perimeter of the created shapes. In groups,...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Making Cubes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore vocabulary associated with three dimensional figures.  In this transformations activity, 3rd graders create two dimensional nets for three dimensional figures.  Students become familiar with describing two and three...
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Curated OER

Various Volumes

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this volume worksheet, students create different sized cubes and compare the sizes by pouring sand from one cube into another. Students follow 4 directions and reflect on their findings.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Computing Volume Progression 3

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Learners are given a volume of a rectangular tank and are asked to find the water height. Because the total volume of the tank is given in liters, your geometers will need to use a unit ratio to convert to centimeters cubed. The exercise...