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Making Life A Little Easier With the Right Math Lesson Plans
There are easy ways to integrate math lesson plans and activities into the regular classroom routines.
Time for Time
Telling Time: Telling Time: Half Hours
The whole class discusses the differences between the two clocks: digital and a clock with hands. They discuss the differences between the hour hand and minute hand. Students are taught telling time to the half hour. They are introduced...
Curated OER
Do you have the time?
A very simple instructional activity, this handout includes a model conversation and 12 different time expressions such as "It's five after (two)" and "It's quarter to (three)". After studying the model conversation and the time...
Kenan Fellows
Math Made Simple as 1-2-3: Simplified Educational Approach to Algebra
Writing an equation of a line is as easy as m and b. A lesson presentation gives individuals different strategies for writing equations of lines. Some items provide a slope and a point while others provide two points. Whatever the given,...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Interpreting Distance–Time Graphs
Pre-algebra protégés critique a graph depicting Tom's trip to the bus stop. They work together to match descriptive cards to distance-time graph cards and data table cards, all of which are provided for you so you can make copies for...
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
STEM: Lou-Vee Air Car
A comprehensive lesson plan on acceleration awaits your physicists and engineers! Two YouTube videos pique their interest, then sample F=ma problems are worked and graphed. The highlight of the lesson plan is the building of a Lou-Vee...
Education World
Got the Time? (Math Word Problems)
Upper graders work with peers to solve word problems related to time and independently solve word problems that involve calculating time. They will show their ability to solve and work through mathematical operations. A worksheet is...
iMagine Machine
The Land of Venn - Geometric Defense
Young mathematicians use their geometry skills to save the Land of Venn in an engaging math game. A fun way to reinforce children's understanding of basic geometric figures and shapes.
EngageNY
Getting a Handle on New Transformations 2
Use 2x2 matrices to move along a line. The second day of a two-day lesson is the 28th installment in a 32-part unit. Pupils work together to create and solve systems of equations that will map a transformation to a given...
Mathalicious
On Your Mark
With many factors leading to a great athlete, does height make Usain Bolt unfairly fast? Middle schoolers conduct analysis to change the running distance of the Olympic races to be proportional to the height of the participants. They...
Scholastic
Mega-Fun Fractions
Creative and fun lessons help kids get some hands-on experience with fractions. The resource includes 50 innovative ways to teach kids about equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, using fractions in money math and...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Place Decimal on a Number Line
Through four steps, three different time values for a 100-meter run are arranged on a number line in order to practice ordering decimal numbers. The price of two sports drinks are also compared. All of this comes in narrated and animated...
Curated OER
Right on Time
The hour is nigh for your class to practice equivalency problems in the form of time-zone conversions. They write equations to describe elapsed time and apply problem solving strategies, including writing a plan, to solve the problems.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Skateboard Assembly - Cycle Time
Assemble a great lesson on assembly lines. In the first installment of a nine-part technology/engineering series, future entrepreneurs learn about the manufacturing process, specifically about the assembly line and cycle time. The lesson...
Mathalicious
Been Caught Stealing
You're safe, when calculating the odds of stealing second base! Learners compare the rate of a runner to the distance the ball travels, in a lesson that explores right triangles and measurement. Full of discussion questions and fun...
Curated OER
Working With Basic Units of Time
In this math worksheet, students investigate telling time, elapsed time and word problems pertaining to time. Students also convert minutes to hours and hours to days. There are 40 problems on the 3 pages.
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Right Place, Right Time
In this right place, right time worksheet, students read train timetables and apply the information to answer math word problems. Students solve eight word problems.
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Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 10: Overview
Third graders use strips of paper to find equivalent fractions. They will fold paper into thirds and shade 2/3 of the paper. Then fold the same paper in six parts and predict how many parts will be shaded. They will repeat again folding...
Curated OER
It's About Time!
Students examine concept of time, and explore difference between analog and digital clocks; students make art project to represent time and create a time-story problem and solution.
US Mint
Coin Connections
Help young mathematicians make cents out of the US currency system with this two-part math instructional activity. Children first learn the names and values for each type of coin, before learning to count and compare the values of coins...
EngageNY
Grade 5 Math Module 1, Topic F, Lesson 14
Be sure to place value on place value understanding. Young mathematicians learn to divide decimals by whole numbers when compatible numbers are not available. They use place value discs in place value charts, then connect this strategy...
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The Winter Olympics and Elementary Math Lesson Plans
Tune into the many elementary math lessons, and learning opportunities during the Winter Olympic Games.
Curated OER
Wind Effects on Model Building: Pre-Lab for Truss Design and Testing
Emerging engineers perform pre-lab calculations in this first of a three-part lesson plan on model building. They determine the forces of tension and compression in a truss. After completion of the worksheet, pupils will draw a draft of...
Rational Number Project
Rational Number Project: Initial Fraction Ideas
Deepen the fractional number sense of young learners with this introductory lesson plan on equivalent fractions. After completing a short warm-up activity, children go on to work in pairs using fraction circles to complete a table...