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Get In Line!
Students compare and order fractions and decimals using a number line. They use rules of conversion to determine equivalencies competing problems accurately and plot points on the number line that represent the correct order of the...
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Solving Equations Using Two Operations
Need more detail in showing your class how to solve two-step equations and proportions? This lesson plan outlines the steps young mathematicians need to solve simple equations and check their results.
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Decimals and Place Value
Students can practice sorting and rounding decimals in this review activity, which features several examples of each skill as well as twenty-two practice exercises. This activity will also work well in an electronic format, as each...
Alabama Learning Exchange
How Old is Your Money?
Elementary learners explore coin mint dates. First, they listen to the book Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst. They then sort a collection of coins according to their mint date and put them in order from oldest...
Curated OER
Integers
Using a simple technique, learners practice identifying integers on a number line. As numbers, both positive and negative, are pointed to, they name them. This could be part of anticipatory set before a lesson on integers.
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Place Value of Decimals to Hundredths: Diving for Decimals
Constructing decimals correctly is a crucial concept for elementary students to grasp. Here, have the young mathematicians in your class explore standard and expanded form while comparing decimal values. This unit is taught while...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Integers, Opposites, Absolute Value
Straight from the pages of a math textbook, this three-lesson series introduces young mathematicians to the world of integers. Starting with a definition of integers and their applications in the real world, this resource goes on to...
Curated OER
Plotting Numbers and Test
Sixth graders create a human number line. They determine the correct placement of various numbers ranging from -4 to 4. Additionally, they will determine the placement of numbers written as fractions and/or decimals.
Virginia Department of Education
Rational Speed Matching
Ready, set, go! Individuals practice converting rational numbers between fractions, decimals, and percents. A speed game has teams match the three forms of rational numbers on a number line.
Curated OER
Decimals Anyone?
Seventh graders compare and order decimals. Given a set of integers, they compare them using inequalities. In groups, 7th graders participate in hands-on decimal activities. Using string, paper clips and decimal cards, classmates...
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Smaller Than One
Sixth graders practice converting a fraction into a decimal and a percent. They explain relationships among rational numbers. They order and compare whole numbers, fractions (including mixed numbers), and decimals using a variety of...
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Human Number Line
Students compare different types of numbers. Each student is given a flashcard containing a decimal, percent, fraction or integer. Teams of students compete, in silence, to determine who can line up in numerical order correctly. They...
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Fractions, Decimals and Percents
Students investigate the differences when using decimals, fractions, and percents. They focus on the process of using them in real problems and how to convert them from one form to another.
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Fire!, Probability, and Chaos
Upper elementary and middle schoolers work with the concept of probability. They are introduced to the concept of chaos. Learners graph and analyze using a line plot, work with mean, and are introduced to the concept of variance.
Virginia Department of Education
Ground Zero
Don't harbor any negative feelings toward negative numbers. Scholars learn about different classifications of rational numbers, including negative integers. They also develop definitions of the opposite and the absolute value of a...
Curated OER
Drinking Juice
Pictures, number lines, decimal equivalents, or Cuisenaire rods can be used to show insight into the meaning of multiplying fractions.Here, Alisa drinks 3/4 of 1/2 liter of juice. To find the total volume of the juice that Alisa drank,...
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Operations with Decimals
Teach your learners to solve word problems. They will review how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with decimals. Then they solve multiple problems.
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Number Books
Pupils construct a book to illustrate number concepts. They write their numbers on a sheet of paper. Students in grade 1 discuss counting to 100 by different numbers. Pupils in grades (2-4) write basic addition or subtraction story...
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Number Line Math
Second graders use a number line to practice subtraction. In this subtraction lesson, 2nd graders use a number line to count backwards. Students participate in mad math activities and solve problems.
Math Stars
Math Stars: a Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 7
Put on your thinking caps because middle school math has never been more interesting in this huge resource full of thought provoking questions. Written as a newsletter, the resource has 10 two-page newsletters with a variety of...
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Comparing Positive Fractions, Mixed Numbers & Decimals
Seventh graders explore the concept of fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals. In this fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals lesson, 7th graders compare different forms of rational numbers on a number line. Students order rational...
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Introduction to Decimals
In this math worksheet, students are introduced to decimals by first studying pattern blocks showing a number with tens, ones and tenths. Students locate decimals on number lines and rulers and shade decimal pictures. Students compare...
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Adding Tenths
In this mathematics worksheet, 4th graders identify what is missing from the whole 1 in each problem. Then they draw a number line from 0 to 2 with tick marks at every tenth place. Students also add each decimal and write their...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Using the Coordinate Plane in Problem Solving
Fifth graders practice solving problems. In this fraction and decimal lesson, 5th graders recognize the relationship between fraction and decimals. Students estimate problem results and write expressions to use for problem solving.