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Curated OER

Menu Mania

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of estimating by watching a video, and discussing the strategies for estimation. They estimate the costs for various menu items, then calculate the exact amount spent.
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Curated OER

Code Breakers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers collect data and make a frequency table, change ratios into percents, and analyze data to make predictions.
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Curated OER

Wings and Othe Things

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students work in groups that are engaged in different activities at different times. They watch the video "Madagascar" and collect data pertaining to the Fish Eagle's arm spam. They work together to perform mathematical computations...
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Curated OER

Properties of Fractals

For Teachers All
Students build a working definition of regular fractal, look carefully at the concepts of dimension and scale, and are introduced to logarithms. They solve simple exponential equations for the exponent both by trial and error and using...
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Curated OER

Million Dollar Gift

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a box big enough to hold a million dollars. This is a project fun to do near the winter holidays with inexpensive gifts included in the boxes. This hands-on lesson very effectively demonstrates the concept of volume.
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Curated OER

Fraction King Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students combine imagination, block manipulation, and computer applets to investigate fractions.
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Curated OER

Integer Arithmetic

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners solve integer-based problems. They add and subtract integers as well find missing integers. They represent a scenario involving positive and negative integers and solve it.
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Curated OER

Cost Comparison

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students take a tour of a produce department in a grocery store. They explore the concepts of money and a budget. They complete problem solving activities and taste different fruits and vegetables.
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Curated OER

Properties of Fractals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students build a working definition of a regular fractal, they measure the concepts of dimensions and scale, they explore the concept of a logarithm and they attempt to solve simple exponential equations for the exponent both by trial...
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Curated OER

Irregular Fractals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study and research irregular fractals and construct a few based on their research. Students practice pattern recognition skills and plane geometry skills calculating dimensions on the Fractured Pictures activity.
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Worksheet
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Capacity Lotto

For Students 5th - 6th
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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Gold-Worthy Ideas for the Upcoming Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Gather some ideas for bringing the Winter Olympics into your classroom.
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National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Depreciation (Double Declining)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Have you ever been told that your new car begins to lose its value as soon as you drive it off the lot? Aspiring accountants take on the concepts of depreciation and book value through an easy-to-deliver career and technology lesson. The...
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Simple Past-Positive Sentences #2

For Students 4th - 6th
In this simple past tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the given tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Schoolyard Bird Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe and count bird sightings around their schoolyard throughout the school year.
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Using Excel, the Internet, And Word To Create a Spreadsheet, Chart, And Instructions

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students improve data entry in a spreadsheet.
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Curated OER

Reading Trees: Understanding Dendrochronology

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine tree-ring dating and discuss the lack of water the settlers in Jamestown faced. They create paper tree rings, simulate rain patterns, and describe the history of construction paper tree sequences.
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Curated OER

Money Circulation: A Story of Trade and Commerce

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the meaning, symbolism, and value of the quarter. They determine the percentage of total monetary value held in quarters and graph the results. Students infer about the U.S. Mint's distrubution of coins. They...
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Curated OER

Build a Snowplow

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students design and build a snowplow using LEGO materials. They compete in an Engineer's Challenge to clear a path through Styrofoam peanuts.
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Curated OER

Learning Festival

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders at this age are very interested in the adventures of knighthood and life in the past, so the unit will serve as a basis for teaching skills while maintaining high interest.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Comparing Decimal Numbers

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Students practice comparing decimal numbers. The resource has learners determine if the first decimal is more than, the same as, or less than the second decimal value.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Comparing Decimals and Fractions Using Inequalities

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students practice using the >, <, and = signs as they compare decimals and fractions. To do this, they first convert the fraction to...
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Math Drills

Math Drills: Decimals Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th
Download these worksheets to sharpen your skills working with decimals. Sheets focus on rounding decimals, expanded form, comparing decimals, converting decimals, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, and order of...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Comparing Decimals (Tenths and Hundredths)

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this exercise, students practice comparing decimals. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.