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A McTrip Back In Time
Students pretend they are time-travellers and travel back to 1954 to a McDonald's Restaurant to see how prices have changed. They need to add and subtract money with regrouping.
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Square Numbers
Fourth graders use square tiles to help them explain the concept of square numbers.
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Fractions in the Kitchen
Seventh graders use the World Wide Web for research, identify fractions found in everyday life by finding a recipe that uses fractions.
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Patterns, Functions & Algebra
Students participate in numerous activities and games. In pairs, they play card games to find relationships between a random set of playing cards. After writing samples of Dear Abby letters concerning math problems, students create a...
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Finding Addition Patterns
Students practice finding the sums of two-one digit numbers. For this addition lesson plan, students also record facts onto an addition chart.
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How Much Is Too Much?
Learners examine population growth and collect data. In this statistics lesson, students create a scatter plot to represent the different species found in the water and are being harvested. They graph their data and draw conclusion from it.
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Skip it to multiply it
First graders make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of answers.
They make up, tell and record number stories up to 9 about given objects. They skip count in twos, threes and fives.
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The Multiplier (2-digit by 2-digit numbers)
Fourth graders Split a 2-digit number into tens and ones. They use The Multiplier to partition and solve 2-digit by 2-digit multiplications. They describe how to solve 2-digit by 2-digit multiplications using a diagram.
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More Pizzas and Things
Students are introduced to the problem by playing a guessing game of "I am a number, which is half of 6 and 6, what am I?" They explain their answers and see if anyone else had an alternate solution checking for reasonableness.
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The Multiplier (larger 2-digit by 1-digit numbers)
Students utilize number sense applications to multiply two digit numbers. They use "The Multiplier" and Internet source to partition and solve 2 digit by 1 digit multiplications. Students describe how to solve 2-digit by 1-digit...
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Building Patterns
Fifth graders examine a variety of different patterns. After reading a book, they are introduced to a growing pattern and have them predict the next sequence of blocks. In groups, they are given a set of tiles in which they create a...
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Representing Rational Numbers
Seventh graders explore rational numbers. In this fractions, decimals, and percents instructional activity, 7th graders identify and compare equivalencies between fractions, decimals, and percents. Students use hands-on activities to...
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Dividing Integers
In this dividing integers worksheet, learners complete word problems and regular division problems. Students complete 12 division problems and 4 word problems.
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Rounding Numbers
Fourth graders complete math problems where they round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand. In this rounding lesson plan, 4th graders explain how to round the problems they solve.
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Graphing : research and record information
First graders create graphs. In this graphing lesson, 1st graders create a floor graph using their bodies to record information. They create picture graphs after collecting information.
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Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography
Students investigate modular clock arithmetic and cryptography. They perform basic operations in modular (clock) arithmetic and encode and decode messages using simple shift and affine ciphers.
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Fractions
Fourth graders explore fractions. They use Skittles and M&M's to practice adding and subtracting fractions. Students review the numerator and the denominator of fractions. They count the number of each color of Skittles and M&M's...
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Water - Planning for the Future
Students explore and examine the increases and/or decreases for water user groups: irrigation, municipal, manufacturing, steam electric power generation cooling, livestock, and mining. They utilize percentage changes during their...
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Equations
Fourth graders determine the difference between equations and non-equations. In groups, they are given the answers and identify the numbers needed to make the answer. To end the lesson, they complete an equation using the price lists...
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Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography
Students explore the concept of modular arithmetic and cryptography. For this modular arithmetic and cryptography lesson, students use applets to explore modular arithmetic using a clock and Caesar Ciphers. Students exchange their...
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One-Step Linear Equations
Sixth graders explore linear equations. In this linear equations instructional activity, 6th graders explore visual examples of 1-step linear equations. Students also practice solving problems that their instructors model.
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Punch Mix-up
Fifth graders discuss the relationship between equivalent fractions, ratios, and proportions. In this fraction lesson, 5th graders answer questions about a punch mixture in order to find the ratio of ingredients.
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How Big Is It?
Fifth graders look at the Garrison flag and estimate how big it is. For this measurement lesson plan, 5th graders then calculate the area and perimeter of the flag.
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Extending Pattern Understandings
Students use shapes and manipulatives to demonstrate patterns. In this patterns lesson plan, students also break up patterns to identify a pattern unit.