Curated OER
M&M Math
Students plan and make the M&M cookies, tally M&M's by color while eating cookie, and completing worksheet using math skills.
Curated OER
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.
DK Publishing
Real-Life Problems: Miles, Pounds, and More
Give young arithmeticians an applicable way to use their addition and subtraction skills with these five word problems. Each one presents a scenario requiring they add or subtract numbers with units (money, distance, weight,...
Beyond Benign
Truckin’ to Your Table
Food takes a trip to the table. Class members choose a meal from a menu and calculate the total cost of the meal including tax and tip. Using a food origin card, pupils determine how far each of the ingredients of a meal traveled to end...
Education Development Center
Thinking Things Through Thoroughly
Problem solving is a skill of its own. Learners use a variety of problems to encourage mental math and logic to get the correct answer. Guiding questions are provided along the way to encourage the right way of thinking to help tackle...
Curated OER
Polynomials
In this instructional activity, students solve and complete 32 various types of problems. Included are problems on simplifying polynomials, factoring, graphing equations by plotting points, and simplifying expressions using the rules of...
Lone Star College
Integer Order of Operations Worksheet
Practice, assess, or review mathematicians' skills with this integer activity addressing order of operations using positive and negative integers, and solving equations in which letters stand for numbers.
Reed Novel Studies
Lawn Boy: Novel Study
A mountain of grass becomes a mountain of cash in the case of a young entrepreneur in the novel Lawn Boy. Arnold, a main character, begins a lawn mowing business and meets a stockbroker client that helps me manage his money. Scholars...
Curated OER
Reading Charts
How well can your third graders interpret data from a chart? Use this straightforward learning exercise to reinforce problem-solving skills. After reading a school schedule, pupils answer ten questions about the information in the chart....
Curated OER
The Sum of Our Integer Intelligences
Young mathematicians explore integers. They review adding integers through engaging in mathematical labs. Each lab station is designed to reflect one of the multiple intelligences. Resources for all activities are provided.
Curated OER
Using Algebra to Explore Problem Space
Students apply their knowledge of math by rewriting word problems using equations. In this word problem lesson, students build upon previous knowledge as they set up the correct steps to solve word problems. This lesson is full of hints...
Curated OER
Everyday Problems with Decimals
Review word problems and decimals with a worksheet that features everyday problems for your students to solve. Six problems provide space for both work and the solution, reinforcing the importance of showing one's work in word problems....
GLOBE Program
Calculating Relative Air Mass
Combine math and science with fun in the sun! Scientists build a solar gnomon using reusable materials to calculate relative air mass. Mathematicians measure the pole's shadow and use the data to solve for relative air mass....
Texas Instruments
Drawing a Line Tangent to a Circle
Explore lines tangent to a circle. In this math lesson, high schoolers manipulate circles and lines on a TI calculator. They draw a circle and analyze perpendicular lines intersecting the circle in only one place. This activity works...
Curated OER
Reading Bar Graphs
Working on bar graphs in your math class? Use a thorough worksheet to reinforce graphing and problem solving skills with your third graders. After reviewing two bar graphs, young learners answer ten questions about the data represented...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Matching Situations, Graphs and Linear Equations
What do guitars, candles, and helicopters have in common? They're all in this resource. Learners complete an assessment task to determine the amount of profit made in a guitar class based on given information regarding variable...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Generalizing Patterns: Table Tiles
As part of a study of geometric patterns, scholars complete an assessment task determining the number of tiles needed to cover a tabletop. They then evaluate provided sample responses to see different ways to solve the same problems.
Curated OER
I Can Buy Anything I Want: Consumer Debt and Social Responsibility
A clear, comprehensive overview of consumer debt, credit, interest, international currency, and social responsibility, this 45-minute session falters in the application stage. You'll need to create a way for learners to demonstrate their...
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Where Are We Going?
Come take a ride on the space bus! Scholars go on an imaginary trip to pick up their peers from the inner and outer planets while reinforcing math skills. First, learners round decimals to identify each planets' distance from Earth....
Curated OER
Drawing Angles
Get out those protractors! Once geometers can identify obtuse, acute, right, and straight angles, get them to measure and draw their own. There are six boxes here, each with an angle measurement. Learners use a protractor to draw the...
DK Publishing
Using a Protractor
Learn how to measure acute, right, and obtuse angles with a protractor. After reviewing the way the protractor works, fourth graders measure nine angles on their own. For extra practice, have them measure different angles in their...
McGraw Hill
Triangles
After reviewing characteristics of seven types of triangles, young geometers discover how to find the missing angle of a triangle. Then, they practice identifying triangles, find missing angles, and find missing side lengths of similar...
CK-12 Foundation
Evaluate Expressions with One or More Variables: Water Bottle Expression
Fill your mind as you fill virtual water bottles. Pupils use an interactive to find the amount of water that can fit in given containers. Writing and evaluating an algebraic expression helps with this task.
Radford University
The Roanoke Adventure!
Travel about town. Pupils work in pairs to find the distances between landmarks with a map. The teams determine how far to travel on the streets and the length between the landmarks with the distance formula and compare the two. Learners...