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Illustrative Mathematics: 8.f Battery Charging
Sam wants to take his MP3 player and his video game player on a car trip. An hour before they plan to leave, he realized that he forgot to charge the batteries last night. At that point, he plugged in both devices so they can charge as...
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Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Fishing Adventures 2
In this lesson students create equations to solve the given problems.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt Ordering 3 Digit Numbers
This lesson plan has students order numbers from least to greatest and vice versa.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt Ten \$10S Make \$100
This complete lesson plan has students explore place value using money.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Guess My Number
In this lesson, 7th graders play a game to write and solve simple equations.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 1.g All vs. Only Some
In this lesson, students come up with statements that is true about all of the triangles that they see but not true of all triangles in general, then the teacher should ask students if they can imagine a triangle without that attribute.:...
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Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt Toll Bridge Puzzle
This lesson plan has students adding up to four numbers using place value strategies.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 7.g,rp Measuring the Area of a Circle
In this lesson plan, 7th graders answer word problems to determine the area of a circle.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 2.g Which Pictures Represent One Half?
In this lesson plan students are given pictures of various shapes and are to determine which one is half shaded.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 2.g Representing Half of a Rectangle
In this lesson plan, 2nd graders are to determine what half of a rectangle is.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Molly's Run
In this lesson plan students are given a distance and time and are to determine the speed.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 3.nf Naming the Whole for a Fraction
When fractions are represented pictorially, they are always fractions of some whole.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 3.nf Jon and Charlie's Run
The purpose of this task is to present students with a context where they need to explain why two simple fractions are equivalent and are most appropriate for instruction. Students can illustrate the fact that the two fractions are...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Mixing Fertilizer
A landscaping company prepares two mixtures of fertilizer. In this task, students investigate what happens to the value of an expression when a quantity is changed. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Quinoa Pasta 1
A type of pasta is made of a blend of quinoa and corn. The pasta company is not disclosing the percentage of each ingredient in the blend but we know that the quinoa in the blend contains 16.2% protein, and the corn in the blend contains...
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Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt One, Ten, and One Hundred More and Less
In this lesson plan students will understand place value using addition and subtraction.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Music Companies, Variation 1
This lesson plan has students determine the unit rate and then determine the cost.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt Making 124
This complete lesson plans has students determine how to make a number using hundreds, tens, and ones.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt Regrouping
For this lesson plan students use regrouping to explore place value.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 1.oa Measuring Blocks
This is a complete lesson plan that has students explore how to measure length using blocks.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Sports Equipment Set
In this lesson, 7th graders write and solve an inequality to solve the problem.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 1.oa Kiri's Mathematics Match Game
In this lesson plan, 1st graders play a matching game to explore unknown numbers.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ns Rounding and Subtracting
This lesson plan has students subtract and round rational numbers.
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Illustrative Mathematics: 6.g Same Base and Height, Variation 1
Make the following triangles on a geoboard. Remember that the pegs are equally spaced in a square grid. Compare the areas of the triangles. Aligns with 6.G.A.1.