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Number: Rounding Off and Approximating
Young mathematicians access a website that leads them through three activities that enable them to practice their rounding and estimation skills when it comes to numbers and math word problems. There is also a very good worksheet...
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Teddy Bear Subtraction
Do this exercise to prime early learners for a day of subtraction. They discuss problem-solving strategies, listen to a story problem involving teddy bears, then go to their assigned math station. This is a great way to prime the day.
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Repeated Subtraction
Learners can find the difference using repeated subtraction. This set of 6 word problems encourages them to use repeated subtraction as the primary problem solving strategy.
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Algebraic Relationships
Here are 17 various forms of problems that range from matching equivalent expressions to word problems. Included are problems for substutiing values into expressions and using the order of operations, simplifying algebraic expressions,...
Virginia Department of Education
The Real Meal Deal
Burgers and salads and sodas, oh my! Scholars use a menu to investigate the Fundamental Counting Principle. They create tree diagrams to illustrate the number of possible choices for each given scenario.
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Math for the Frontier
Make history come to life by using the Frontier House series to engage students in the past. Your class will "prepare" for a trip to 1833 Montana. They will learn about homesteading, frontier life, inflation, and cost of living. Using...
Ahisma Summer Institute
The Power of One - Math in a Different Angle
In this 2-day lesson focused on exponents, middle schoolers will cross the curriculum by engaging in science, history and language arts activities. Exponential growth will be explored using grains of rice on a chess board. Exponential...
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Kodable
Prepare young scholars for life in the twenty-first century with this introduction to computer coding formatted as a fun problem solving game, this resource is a great way to develop children's sequential thinking skills.
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Problem Solving and the Sports Page
Fourth graders create and solve word problems using the boxscores from the sports section of the newspaper. The role play the sport, define abbreviations used and examine the fundamentals of scoring the sport.
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Problem Solving: Write an Equation
In this equation worksheet, students read a simple word problem, write an equation to solve it, then write their own story problem and equation.
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Problem Solving: Write an Expression
When practicing problem-solving skills students have to hone their critical thinking. In this instructional activity on problem solving, 5th graders have to determine which operation and what strategy to use when answering the word...
Noyce Foundation
Counters
For some, probability is a losing proposition. The assessment item requires an understanding of fraction operations, probability, and fair games. Pupils determine the fractional portions of an event. They continue to determine whether...
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Sentence Completion: High-Intermediate Level
Learners can practice their reading strategies and comprehension skills with a sentence completion worksheet that comes with a detailed answer key. Whether you use the worksheet as an assessment or as a group or individual practice...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Decimals and Fractions
Reinforce the concept of fractions and decimals as part of a whole with a lesson that begins with a mixed review, then goes into a three problem guided practice, and ends with a collaborative activity. The guided practice and activity...
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Sentence Completion 16: High-Intermediate Level
More sentence completion practice! The strength of this worksheet lies in the lengthy answer and explanations key included with the resource. The key explains in detail how to approach each problem, what strategies to employ, and why...
Rational Number Project
Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 18: Overview
Develop young mathematicians' ability to compare fractions with investigation into the number 1/2. After brainstorming a list of fractions equivalent to 1/2, children identify a pattern in the numerators and denominators that allows them...
Education Development Center
Language of Algebra
Don't rush into algebra, let learners visualize, guess, and predict their way to a successful math career. The introductory unit incorporates beginner algebraic concepts with shapes instead of variables. Young mathematicians use a...
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Adding/Subtracting Whole Numbers in Your Head
Exercise those mental math muscles! This instructional activity contains 10 addition and 10 subtraction problems which require learners to compute sums or differences in their heads. A quick review at the top of the page provides a...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Make an Organized List
In this problem-solving worksheet, students utilize the strategy of making an organized list to solve a mathematical word problem in 5 steps.
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Simplify the Problem as a Strategy
In this simplify the problem as a strategy instructional activity, 4th graders solve two word problems by breaking each one down into a simpler problem first.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Find a Pattern: Problem Solving
In this finding patterns instructional activity, students use the problem solving strategy of understand, plan, solve, and look back to help them find the pattern in the swimming distances numbers. Students use the pattern to help them...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Make a Table - Reteach
For this math tables worksheet, students read the word problem to understand the information. Students then picture the information in the table. Students use the table to help them solve the problem. Students then make a table to help...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Draw a Picture: Practice
In this fraction drawing worksheet, students read the fraction word problems. Students then draw a picture to help them solve the word problem.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Write an Equation
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, students practice writing equations as they respond to 4 questions that enable them to solve 2 word problems.