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Skittles® in the Middle
Fourth graders work in small groups, using bags of Skittles?? to determine the mean of one color of Skittles?? found in each bag, in each group, and in the entire class. This is a good instructional activity to help motivate students to...
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Math Mania
Fifth graders review adding, subtracting, multiplication and division of fractions and decimals through a variety of activities and exercises.
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Summer Trip
Seventh graders utilize the Internet for use of search engines to plan a trip. They research and develop expenses for a trip and divide and round the cost of things to the nearest tenth.
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Measuring the Sun's Diameter
Students project and measure the suns image using a refracting telescope. In this sun's diameter lesson plan students calculate the magnification of the telescope and determine the diameter if the Sun.
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To Float or Not to Float - A Lesson on Density
Students define density in their own words. In this physics lesson, students calculate density using mass and volume. They explain why some objects sink and some float.
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Exchanging Money in the Dominican Republic
Young scholars explore the concept of the international exchange rate. They explore a website, identify the value of the Dominican peso, calculate the value of bills and coins in Dominican pesos and U.S. dollars, and complete various...
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Discovering Pi
Students discover the formula for finding circumference using pi, and demonstrate it.
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Speed, Distance and Time
Students are introduced to the concept of speed and the difference between average and instantaneous speed. They work as a class to solve a variety of word problems to calculate average speeds without a calculator. The students are then...
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Capacity Lotto
In this mathematical worksheet, students convert fifteen metric units of capacity and multiply and divide whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
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Cultural Diversity
Students explore cultural diversity. In this secondary mathematics lesson plan, students use jelly beans to explore diversity. Students collect and analyze data into a matrix as they determine probabilities.
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Graph Both Crusts
Fourth graders calculate the angles and construct a pie graph of the percentages of the elements in the continental and oceanic crusts. Then they analyze the results. They can be assigned the task of researching the percentages.
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Revamped Recipe
Fifth graders engage in a tasty lesson which assist them with proportional measurements. They use a given recipe written for 12 servings, and use a chart to determine the ingredient amounts for 30 servings (or number of students in class).
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Pumped Up Gas Prices
Students spend one month keeping track of the mileage and gasoline amounts they or their family has used. Information is entered into a spreadsheet to help calculate the average gas prices over time.
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Number: Time
Students calculate time in decimals and fractions. In this time lesson plan, students divide hours into equal sections. They discuss how fractions and decimals correspond to hours and minutes.
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Majority Rules
Students practice the voting process by taking a group vote using fractions or percents. In this voting process lesson, students review the voting process and vote using hands or a private ballot. Students tally the responses to the vote...
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Number Line Math
Second graders use a number line to practice subtraction. In this subtraction instructional activity, 2nd graders use a number line to count backwards. Students participate in mad math activities and solve problems.
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Buying My First Car
Learners pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.
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Addition Relay
Third graders, in pairs, use a bag of counters which can be dried beans, squares of papers, etc.
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Parting Ways
Young scholars become part of the solution as they practice figuring percents. The number of men versus women present in the room and their heights can be used to form the basis of this investigation.
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Searching the Attic
Students investigate an attic or basement to "discover" family artifacts. They develop a grid map using string, create a naming system for the grid, and analyze items of interest.
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Asthma "Outbreak" Exercise
Students investigate numerical data on a possible asthma epidemic. Using statistical information, students graph and figure ratios of the epidemic. They evaluate the mortality rate from severe smog in the 1950's in London.
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Decimals in the Garden
In this math worksheet, students are given pictures of garden tools and prices (in pounds). They select the items they would like to purchase for their garden and calculate the cost to buy these items. Students may use the internet to...
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Making Rectangles
Young scholars study rectangles. In this math lesson, students use numbers, measurements and geometry to draw rectangles of varying sizes.