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Better Lesson: Distributive Property
Sixth graders compare the distributive property to sending invitations at a birthday party.
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Better Lesson: Review of Ccss 6.g.1,2,3,4 Volume and Surface Area
Practicing math problems to prepare for a geometry assessment involving volume and surface area.
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Better Lesson: Multiplying Decimal Quantities: Real World Application
Students calculate decimal quantities while making sense of real world situations.
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Better Lesson: Multiplying With Decimal Quantities
Students fluently multiply multi-digit decimal quantities.
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Better Lesson: Nets and Surface Area
A conceptual understanding of finding surface area using nets instead of a formula.
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Better Lesson: Prism or Pyramid?
Sixth graders explore the faces, bases, edges, and vertices of prisms and pyramids to help develop the concepts of volume and surface area.
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Better Lesson: Quiz: Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, & Dividing Decimals
Assess progress in calculating with decimals.
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Better Lesson: Mastering Division Involving Decimal Quantities
Students divide decimal quantities and apply this knowledge to real world situations.
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Better Lesson: Mastering Division
Young scholars divide multi-digit whole number quantities.
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Better Lesson: Moving Along With Talking Moves
Third graders always want to share! This lesson allows us to create a routine where everyone is safe in sharing their thinking and comfortable responding to another's presentation of understanding.
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Better Lesson: Defend Your Ideas With a Journal
Third graders practice in representing their mathematical thinking in order to share it with others and assess their own understanding. This lesson engages them to work out a problem from a story read to them in more than one way.
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Better Lesson: Distributive Property
A Distribution Collusion: Obtaining the secrets to successfully using the distributive property.
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Better Lesson: Greatest Common Factor & Least Common Multiple
Clearly understand the difference between factors and multiples builds a foundation for applications and problem solving using GCF and LCM.
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Better Lesson: Dividing With Fractions
Sixth graders model division using whole numbers and fractions and divide whole numbers and fractions using the standard algorithm.
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Better Lesson: Divisibility Rules for 6 and 9
Sixth graders use calculators to find the shortcut for dividing with 6 and 9.
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Better Lesson: Divisibility Rule for 4 and 5
Using calculators allows students to experiment and to discover patterns, in this case resulting in a divisibility rule for the number 4.
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Better Lesson: Naming Arrays
After partners have worked with each other and have some practice creating arrays, it is time to challenge them to define the concept demonstrated by an array and how it can be used to solve problems.
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Better Lesson: Oh Baloney! Incorporating Large Numbers Into Tall Tales
Fourth graders write and read aloud an exaggerated story using multi-digit numbers up to 1,000,000.
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Better Lesson: Musical Fractions an Introduction
Third graders use math, music and technology in this engaging lesson on fractions!
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Better Lesson: Winter Olympics: Non Standard Measurement
We are going for GOLD! Students will use different objects to measure the length achieved in different Olympic events.
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Better Lesson: Unit Assessment on Measurement Concepts
Move over Van Halen because today we are all going to "Jump." So go ahead and jump as students solve an assessment piece and story problems involving jump lengths. If you are under 30, please Google Van Halen before proceeding.
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Better Lesson: Making New Shapes With Shapes
My first graders have been studying the defining attributes of 2D shapes. They are going to love using toothpicks and marshmallows to present their knowledge of 2D and create 3D shapes.
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Better Lesson: Identifying Plane Shapes
First graders begin to learn about plane shapes in Kindergarten. This lesson will serve as review of plane shapes' characteristics and extend into practice in categorizing shapes by defining attributes.
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Better Lesson: Looking at the Similarities and Differences
La, La, La, La, La, sing a happy song! You will be signing like a Smurf as students use their new founded knowledge of shape characteristics to participate in a whole group discussion and to successfully participate in geometric learning.