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Activity
101 Questions

Volcano

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource will blow your mind! Young mathematicians estimate the rate of volcanic lava flow by watching a video. They apply the rate formula to determine how long it would take the lava to reach a city. Let's hope everyone gets out...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson #106 Logs and Long Division

For Teachers 12th
  Students investigate a method of evaluating integrals using long division.  In this calculus lesson, 12th graders examine a method of using long division to perform integration.  The lesson includes a bingo worksheet on exponential and...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Modeling Multiplication of Fractions

For Teachers 6th
Multiply your understanding of multiplying fractions. A short lesson teaches pupils how to multiply fractions. By using fraction models, they get a better understanding of the concept.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Place the First Digit of the Quotient

For Students 4th - 5th
In this division worksheet, students solve division word problems. They divide one digit numbers into three digit numbers. There are six problems to solve.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Square Roots Using a Carpenter's Square

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars calculate the square root of a given number using carpenter's square measurements. In this math lesson plan, students relate this method on the Pythagorean theorem. They answer practice problems after the exploration...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

March of the Dividing Ant

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars inspect divisibility rules. In this divisibility rules lesson, students study the relationship between factorization and the divisibility rules for 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10. Young scholars read One Hundred Hungry Ants and A...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hoe Long Does it Take to Get to a Star

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students calculate the distance in light years. In this geometry activity, students solve problems involving distance, using the distance formula. They rewrite big numbers using scientific notations and apply their knowledge of everyday...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math Shortcuts

For Teachers 4th
While the idea is great, to help pupils understand shortcuts to solve multiplication and division problems, this lesson doesn't lay out the steps necessary for successful comprehension. There are a few examples to show how to use...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Leveled Problem Solving Multiplying and Dividing Decimals

For Students 5th - 6th
In order to be able to multiply and divide decimals properly, students need to be provided with a variety of ways to practice this skill. In this basic activity, students practice how to multiply and divide decimals using word problems...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Division: 5-dgit by 2-digit

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
As the title states, these 15 math problems are the division of five-digit numbers by two-digit numbers (no remainders). For some odd reason, one row is left blank on the printable version, but because there isn't really enough room to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Multiplication and Division

For Students 4th - 5th
In these finding the products and quotients worksheets, students use the Multiplication Tables for 2, 4, and 8 and the Multiplication Tables for 3, 6, and 9 to multiply one-digits to six digit numbers and number sentences and divide...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bubblegum Math

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Here is a lesson on how to convert inches to centimeters using bubblegum. For this measurement lesson plan, learners get into partners and blow bubbles. One student blows bubbles while the other measures the bubble in inches. Then the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gone Lobstering

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This simple lesson has young mathematicians consider all of the expenses, and monetary rewards a typical lobsterman encounters when going about his business. Given a few pieces of information, pupils must figure out a lobsterman will...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adjusting the Quotient

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use number facts to estimate quotients. In this division lesson, 4th graders examine long division problems to determine which multiple of ten will help them determine a number that is close to a quotient. They adjust the...
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EngageNY

Polynomial, Rational, and Radical Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This assessment pair goes way beyond simple graphing, factoring and solving polynomial equations, really forcing learners to investigate the math ideas behind the calculations. Short and to-the-point questions build on one another,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Repeating Decimal as Approximation

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
You are used to teaching repeating decimals with bar notation that keeps us from writing that number over and over again; now teach what the over and over again represents. This activity allows your mathematicians to explore the infinite...
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Activity
Computer Science Unplugged

Lightest and Heaviest—Sorting Algorithms

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
How do computers sort data lists? Using eight unknown weights and a balance scale, groups determine the order of the weights from lightest to heaviest. A second worksheet provides the groups with other methods to order the weights. The...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Who Has the Best Job?

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Making money is important to teenagers. It is up to your apprentices to determine how much two wage earners make with their after school jobs. Participants work with a table, an equation, and a graph and compare the two workers to see...
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Handout
Ohio Literacy Resource Center

Converting Units of Measure

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Follow six steps to implement this series of metric worksheets. Here, mathematicians exhibit their knowledge of problem solving, while converting units of measurement and label their answers with the applicable unit name.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Clue and All About Me Problem Solving

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice solving word problems using highlighted strategies. In this word problem lesson, 5th graders brainstorm and  use words as clues that indicate the math operations that will be used to solve problems. They use the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Test on Sections 9.1-9.3

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners assess their mastery of integration techniques. In this calculus lesson, students solve problems by integration by parts, long division, and inverse trig.  There are 2 versions of the same test.  
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Divide with Mixed Numbers

For Students 4th - 7th
For this dividing with mixed numbers practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Divide by a Fraction

For Students 4th - 7th
In this dividing by fractions practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Leveled Problem Solving Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers

For Students 4th - 7th
In this dividing fractions and mixed numbers practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.