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10Quickies.com - Gregory L. Gomez Half-page math review handouts, each consisting of ten standards-based problems woven into an original, one-of-a-kind illustration. Preview completed worksheets or request free samples of the colorful crayon-style drawings before purchasing. ...more>> Algebra - Fun with Calendars - Cynthia Lanius Take any calendar. Tell a friend to choose 4 days that form a square. If your friend tells you only the sum of the four days, you can tell her what the four days are. How does the puzzle work? Includes a extension page for designing your own puzzle, teachers ...more>> All Those Advertising Dollars! - Kent Anderson; SCORE Mathematics After getting information from advertising statistics available on the Internet, students calculate percent increases (or decreases) for the top 25 companies in terms of advertising dollars spent during a year. At the end of the activity students will ...more>> Amsterdam Tessellation Projects - M. Hos-McGrane Student tessellations created using the software program Tesselmania, inspired by a class trip to the Escher Exhibition in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ...more>> Assorted Sports - Stephanie Loopstra; SCORE Mathematics You have played games all your life. You know some playing fields are larger than others. (Imagine playing football on a tennis court) You will discover the dimensions of the different sports and compute the area of the playing fields. Aligned to the ...more>> The Bigger They Are... - Jared Sliger; SCORE Mathematics "Man, he really put his weight into that one!" "The only reason he gets more rebounds is because he is so tall!" "They don't cover him any more because he is so old, that is why he catches so many passes!" Are any of these statements legitimate? Students ...more>> Boomerang (SMILE) - Wilhelm L. Lilly, Kenwood Academy High School A lesson for grades 4-12 designed to teach students to estimate angles in degrees and distances in feet or meters; collect data and analyze a histogram; and (optionally) study gyroscopic precession and aerodynamics. From the Recreational and Creative ...more>> Bridges to Math Comprehension - Jan Rottner; SCORE Mathematics Collect statistics about 2-4 famous bridges to use in calculating geometric computations of area, and parallel and intersecting lines. Compare your results using less than, greater than or equal to skills. Extensions include exploring other Web sites ...more>> Buying My First Car - Bruce Hills, Jennifer Mendes; SCORE Mathematics You will soon be in the position of getting your driver's license and looking for a car. In all of the excitement, you are faced with a number of decisions which need to be made before you actually purchase your car. Through this unit you will research ...more>> California Here We Come! - Jeanine Hill; SCORE Mathematics A trip across the USA. Each team will choose any state capital on the east coast as their starting point. They will travel west stopping at each state capital along the way and record miles traveled. Each student group will create a chart or table showing ...more>> Cambridge Physics Outlet (CPO) Online - Tom Hsu An integrated math/science curriculum that builds skills in three levels for grades 4-8, 7-11, and 11/12+. Designed in 11 modules, the curriculum comes with student Activity Guides, detailed Teacher's Guides with full solutions, six kinds of assessment ...more>> CESAME Support Site for Investigations Discussions - CESAME, Brown University, Math Forum A place to share ideas, questions, and experiences from teaching TERC's Investigations in Number, Data and Space at four levels: Grades K-1; 2-3; 4-5; and Special Needs Students. Discussion archives are searchable and browseable, and you may also join ...more>> College Fund From Great Aunt Betty - Nancy Roeban; SCORE Mathematics Great Aunt Betty left you $1,000 to go towards your college fund. Now, you will be investing your new found money into a 30 month CD. The account will be automatic, since it will be done through the Web site. Your job will be to calculate the growth of ...more>> Company is Coming - Nancy Roeban; SCORE Mathematics Grandma is coming for a visit tomorrow, and her doctor has put her on a fat free diet. You have found a fat free recipe for pancakes, which serves eight. Since Grandma can't eat eight pancakes, you'll need to find 1/2 of the recipe. Mom found out about ...more>> Does More Wins Mean More Fans at the Ballpark? - Kent Anderson; SCORE Mathematics After getting information from the past baseball season off the Internet, students will calculate an attendance-to-win ratio for each of the 28 major league teams and then study the results to see if winning always leads to good attendance. Aligned to ...more>> Dream Home Mathematics (SMILE) - Dennis W. Montgomery, Lyman Trumbull Academy A lesson for grades 5-12, designed to teach students to use basic math to determine affordability of a home based on a given income; calculate decimal placement for currency, percentages and interest; estimate affordability based on income; investigate ...more>> Eating on a Budget - Nancy Roeban; SCORE Mathematics You have won a $25.00 gift certificate to the Grist Mill Resturant and Bow Mills Pub for a dinner. You will choose an appetizer, salad, and beef or seafood for your dinner. The catch is, you'll need to stay within the $25.00 budget. Aligned to the California ...more>> Equate: The Equation Thinking Game - Conceptual Math Media, Inc. Have fun creating equations crossword-style. An arithmetic version of Scrabble, Equate is a math board game for family and classroom. Earn higher scores by using division or fraction tiles, or by playing tiles on premium board positions that double or ...more>> Exclusive Educational Products - Exclusive Educational Products Order math resources and manipulatives for the curriculum of Ontario, Canada, as listed by grade or by the strands of number sense, measurement, patterning and algebra, geometry, data management, and assessment. Virtual workshops include samples from ...more>> Exquisite Excursions - Julie Higginbotham; SCORE Mathematics Students locate 6 cities, one on each of the 6 major continents. They find distance for each leg of their journey, convert to percents, use a time zone map, and convert to foreign currencies. They estimate the circumference of the earth and find the range, ...more>> Factors (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy A lesson for grades 5-7 designed to teach students to find and record groups formed by using pennies; define factor, product, prime, and composite; write related number sentences; find the factors of whole numbers; classify numbers as prime or composite; ...more>> Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League - Karen Newell, Intermediate District 287, Plymouth, Minnesota A Fermi question is posed with limited information given, and requires that students ask many more questions; for example, "How many water balloons would it take fill the school gymnasium?" ("What are the approximate dimensions of the gym?") Register ...more>> Fifth Grade (AAA Math) - John Banfill Interactive math exercises, lessons, and games covering basic math requirements, concepts and methods, for fifth grade. ...more>> Fraction Help - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ Answers to a frequently asked question: How do I help students learn about fractions? ...more>> Fractions and Decimals (Highline Advanced Math Program) - Don and Jerre McQuinn; Highline Council PTSA, Seattle, WA Introductions to fractions and decimals, for grades 5-6. Addition, subtraction, division, factoring; mixed numbers. ...more>> funschool.com A site the goal of which is to make learning fun, and to communicate educational concepts in an effective manner, offering over 700 educational games and activities, many of them math-related. See also funschool's sister site, http://www.kaboose.com/. ...more>> The Geometer's Sketchpad - Key Curriculum Press Geometry software for Euclidean, coordinate, transformational, analytic, and fractal geometry, recommended for students from grade 5 through college. Developed for geometry, students now also use Sketchpad's flexibility and reach to explore algebra, trigonometry, ...more>> Go the Distance - Francie Caraker; SCORE Mathematics Who needs math? Pilots do. This lesson applies math functions to convert kilometers to miles and calculate travel time for different aircraft. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE ...more>> Grade Five Problems - The Canadian School Math Page A variety of word problems at the Canadian 5th grade level, with hints and answers. ...more>> Grades 4-5: Lesson Plans (The Lesson Plans Page) - Kyle Yamnitz, Univ. of Missouri A searchable archive of lesson plans for arithmetic, patterns, basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), time, estimation, graphs, place value, fractions, measurement, number sense, and many more. Includes suggestions for games ...more>> Graphing the Weather - Ric Cooley; SCORE Mathematics Students use the Internet to find a 5-day forecast and use a graphing page to graph that forecast. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics Lessons. ...more>> Hands-On Math Activities for Grades 4-6 - Wendy Sawatzky Designed for a grade 5 class, but adaptable for grades 4 or 6. Teacher notes and ready-made task cards are available for each activity. Topics include numbers and operations, geometry, problem solving, measurement, data management and analysis. ...more>> Highline Advanced Math Program - Don and Jerre McQuinn; Highline Council PTSA, Seattle, WA A math enrichment program for students in grades 5-7. Lessons (first and second year) and a homework helper; Math Quizzer; definitions, and unit conversions. Also practice quizzes for the Olympiads. ...more>> Historical Mathematicians Project - Karla Orosco; SCORE Mathematics People throughout history have had a passion for mathematics. Small student groups use the Internet and other traditional sources to research historically significant mathematicians, write a paper, and present research in class. Aligned to the California ...more>> Honeycomb Hotel: A Unit in Logic - Barbara De Roes A lesson plan for grades 5-12+, for teaching deductive logic, using puzzles not dependent upon language. "Honeycomb Hotel is a game of logic and deduction. You must determine which symbols are on which doors of the Honeycomb Hotel, and the exact path ...more>> Incorporating Word Problems into Basic Skills Development - Gerald A. Baldino; Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Teaching word problems and methods of solution: a unit concerned with practical approaches to problem solving at the elementary mathematical level. It presents concepts and ideas calculated to encourage educators to concentrate on and deal with everyday ...more>> Interior Design (SMILE) - Sally Hill, Horatio May Community Academy A lesson for grades 4-6 designed to teach students to calculate area and perimeter in inches. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement. ...more>> An Introduction to Area and Perimeter (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy A lesson for grades 4-7 designed to use a phenomenological approach to teach students to measure, record, discover, and apply rules for area and perimeter. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons ...more>> Introduction to Fractions Using Cuisenaire Rods (SMILE) - Gwendolyn M. Manson, Benjamin Banneker School A lesson for grade 5 designed to teach students to develop concept and fractional relations; learn numerical values of rods and relate them to color and length; use varied approaches to discovering new fractional relations; write a problem-solving story; ...more>> An Introduction to Percent (SMILE) - Kenneth Surdell, Lewis School A lesson for grade 5 designed to develop a basic understanding that percent is a comparison of some number to 100; and to teach students to convert fractions to percent, percent to decimals, and vice versa, with a minimum of 90 percent accuracy. From ...more>> An Introduction to Pi and the Area of a Circle (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy A lesson for grades 5-7 that uses a phenomenological approach to observe and discuss the relation between circumference and diameter and how that relation, called pi, is used in the formula for the area of a circle. From the Geometry and Measurement section ...more>> Magic Mountain Coaster Computation - Stephanie Loopstra, Ed Avery; SCORE Mathematics You are going to Magic Mountain. Everyone has a favorite roller coaster. Some are fast, or loopy, or crazy. You will discover the highest, and fastest coaster in Magic Mountain. Aligned to the California State Standards. An activity guide from the Energy ...more>> Making Ice Cream (SMILE) - Vickie Townsend, Crown Fine Arts Community Academy A lesson for grades 5-8 designed to teach students to change a recipe to arrive at the amount of each ingredient needed to serve a given number of people; explore, observe, examine, measure and mix the ingredients provided; and convert metric units to ...more>> Math and Logic Contests - Mike Coulter Contests for teams of students in each of grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Sample problems are provided onsite, along with current contest standings. Problems range from those most students should be able to solve independently to complex, multi-step problems ...more>> Math and Soccer Video - Sharp Tack Productions A video revealing the role played by numbers, graphs, geometry, algebra, angles, area, surveys, and chance data in the game of soccer; for example, how a goalie relies on the properties of angles to know where to stand when defending the goals, and on ...more>> Math Blaster - Knowledge Adventure, Inc. Follow links to products and then math to find packages for ages 4-6, 6-9, 9-12, and Pre-Algebra. ...more>> Math, Calories and You - Francie Caraker; SCORE Mathematics This lesson makes students aware of how many calories they burn in relation to their own body weight and lets them practice their multiplication skills. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators ...more>> Math Crosswords - Cheryl Harrigan; SCORE Mathematics Students create crossword puzzles that use the definitions of math terms as clues. The terms are the answers that go into the puzzle. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics ...more>> Math for a Better Life - Francie Caraker; SCORE Mathematics This lesson provides students an opportunity to practice math skills while learning about how to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics ...more>> MATHGYM Mathematics Training Programme - Paul Dooley A tutorial from Australia designed to help 10-16-year-olds develop mathematical problem-solving ability, with five SETs of 20 problems typical to many math competitions. Students are given a Training Problem to solve, with necessary background theory, ...more>>

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