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Beacon Learning Center: Let's Go Shopping
Students can practice estimation by rounding decimal numbers to the nearest dollar.
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Beacon Learning Center: Making Change
Students can practice counting coins and making change in this interactive web lesson.
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Beacon Learning Center: School Store
Students can practice subtraction with regrouping using decimals as they make change.
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Beacon Learning Center: Show Me the Money
Students can practice lining up decimals while adding money amounts in this interactive web lesson.
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Beacon Learning Center: Too Much Noise
Students count and add coins to determine the fewest number needed to produce a given amount.
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Beacon Learning Center: Interpreting Line Graphs
This site is a lesson on creating and interpreting a line graph. It explains how a line graph is created and then asks questions about what is learned from the data. Students type in open responses, and answers and feedback follow.
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Beacon Learning Center: Piece of Pie
This is a tutorial for creating and practice interpreting pie charts. They use the example of number of people in each of 24 families to demonstrate how the pieces of pie are created. Then questions were asked and students input the...
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Beacon Learning Center: Round About
Students learn about estimation using a number line and rounding rules through this interactive web lesson.
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Beacon Learning Center: Push Ups
This is a tutorial on line graphs including when, how, and why one might choose to use them and how to interpret the data when it is complete. This one is to reach a goal for the number of push ups needed to win the Presidential Fitness...
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Beacon Learning Center: Lions, Tigers, and Probability
Students explore the probabilities of simple events, such as rolling a dice, in this interactive web lesson.
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Beacon Learning Center: Me Too Probability
Students find possible outcomes using tree diagrams in this interactive web lesson.
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Beacon Learning Center: On Stage Probability
Students explore how tree diagrams can display possible outcomes in probability problems through this interactive web lesson.
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Beacon Learning Center: Who Will Probably Come to the Party?
Students use tree diagrams to find possible outcomes and make predictions for probability story problems.
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Beacon Learning Center: Triangles Side by Side
This comprehensive web lesson describes how to classify triangles by their angle and side measurements. It provides real-world examples and exercises for students to practice the skill.
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Beacon Learning Center: Setting: Not Just the Time and Place
This is a tutorial focusing on setting including time, place, deeper meanings, multiple settings, etc. Shakespeare's Romeo acts as the guide. RL.11-12.3 Auth choice story elem
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Beacon Learning Center: If You've Seen One Source, You've Seen Them All. Right?
This is a tutorial teaching the difference between primary and secondary research sources. It provides specific examples and asks students to answer questions along the way. Java is required.
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Beacon Learning Center: Information Elimination: Lesson on Narrowing the Topic
This is a tutorial which focuses on how to narrow the topic for expository writing, how to determine what information to keep or eliminate, and what questions to ask yourself. Students respond to questions throughout. A comparison is...
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Beacon Learning Center: Bibliography Blunders
This tutorial focuses on how to complete a bibliography using MLA style. It gives specific directions and examples for various types of entries such as magazines, books, encyclopedias, and web pages. It also gives specifics for the...
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Beacon Learning Center: Trailblazing Introductions
This tutorial focuses on the introduction for an expository essay or research paper. It states the purpose of an introduction, what should be included, and ways to begin.
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Beacon Learning Center: Sunrise Sunset
Reading a story about a trip taken by a girl and her dad, this interactive resource teaches kids about the motion of the sun during the day. Occasional questions probe their understanding of this process. They are asked to predict where...
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Beacon Learning Center: Trailblazing Conclusions
This tutorial focuses on conclusions for expository writing. It discusses the purpose of conclusions, what should be included, and ways to conclude.
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Beacon Learning Center: Sum Fun
An interactive learning tutorial helps students practice addition facts up to 18.
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Beacon Learning Center: Coins for Candy
An interactive lesson helps students identify, compare, and learn the value of coins including pennies, nickels, and dimes.
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Beacon Learning Center: Grandpa's Game
An interactive learning tutorial helps students practice counting coins.