- A McTrip Back In Time - Melanee Stearns; SCORE Mathematics
Students travel back to 1954 to a McDonald's Restaurant to see how prices have changed, adding and subtracting money with regrouping. It is assumed that they have had some prior experience with graphing. Aligned to the California State Standards. From
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- Measuring in Inches and Centimeters (SMILE) - Debra Thomas, Douglass Math and Science Academy
A 6th grade lesson designed to teach students how to measure in inches and centimeters. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement.
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- Monthly Cost of Living - Food - Ric Cooley; SCORE Mathematics
Students determine how much they would need to feed a family for a month, plan meals, and use Internet grocery stores to find the cost of individual food items. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources
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- A 'New Set of Numbers' (An Introduction of Integers) (SMILE) - Barbara Barlow, Caldwell School
A lesson for grade 6 designed to teach students to add and subtract positive and
negative integers. From the Arithmetic section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement.
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- Number Loving - Laura Rees-Hughes and Sharon Derbyshire
Freely downloadable PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, organized by UK key stages, strands, and topics. The Number Loving blog offers new approaches for teaching maths and tips for classroom makeovers. Posts, which date back
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- Olympic Records Through Time - Cheryl Harrigan; SCORE Mathematics
Are we faster, stronger, better than we used to be? Compare the records of gold medal olympic winners for the last 100 years and decide. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics
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- Percentages (SMILE) - Emma Taylor, Douglass Math and Science Academy
A lesson for grades 5-6 designed to introduce students to percents; demonstrate how to change fractions to decimals; and show how to change decimals to percents. From the Arithmetic section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science
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- Pi Day - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: What activities can I use for Pi Day?
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- Place Value Population - Rounding Off - Bart J. Carlson; SCORE Mathematics
Students start by collecting and rounding data about their school, then move on to gathering and rounding larger numbers from the Internet. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE
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- PlaneMath - InfoUse, in cooperation with NASA
Materials for elementary school students about math and aeronautics, designed to stimulate and motivate students with physical disabilities in grades 4-7 to pursue aeronautics-related careers via the development and delivery of accessible math education
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- Population Ratios - Kelley Wilcox; SCORE Mathematics
An interdisciplinary project (mathematics, social studies) where students choose a county in the United States and, using ratios, convert the statistics into meaningful numbers. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California
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- The Probability of Pintails - Rob Roy; SCORE Mathematics
Students use percentages to calculate the probability and probable number of various types of ducks in a wildlife refuge. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics Lessons.
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- ProTeacher - ProTeacher
A teacher-created resource site for elementary schoolteachers, offering lessons and materials, education news, links for finding schools, news and weather, and a reference desk. An index of links to information on various academic subjects includes Mathematics
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- Pumpkin Pie For All! - Dee Lehar; SCORE Mathematics
Pumpkin pie for the whole class - imagine making enough pie so that everyone could have a piece, with enough pie to take one home. The recipe you have makes 1 pie at a time, which only has 8 pieces... Aligned to the California State Standards. From the
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- Raisin Cane - Rob Roy; SCORE Mathematics
California's San Joaquin Valley is the largest agricultural producing area in the world. Raisins are an important part of the valley's agriculture. This activity prompts students to estimate and count how many raisins come in a box and then chart the
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- Star Voyagers: A galactic mathematical adventure - Beth Andrews
A math simulation for teachers and parents, reinforcing basic math skills through a space simulation where only daily practice keeps students alive. Students work as a team while independently mastering all of the basic skills for their grade level. The
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- State Internet Search: A Mathematical Introduction To State Reports - Laura Himmel; SCORE Mathematics
As a mathematical introduction to their state reports students complete a two-day assignment that involves critical thinking, reasoning, graphing, and locating information on Web sites. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California
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- The Stock Market Game (SMG2000) - Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education (SIFEE)
The Stock Market Game (SMG2000) is an electronic simulation of Wall Street
trading, designed to help students and adults understand the stock market, the
costs and benefits involved in decision-making, the sources and uses of capital
and other related
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- StudyJams! - Scholastic Inc.
An online service that complements the school math and science curriculum for grades 3 - 6. Aligned with state curriculum standards, StudyJams! takes math and science problems and presents them using relevant, real-world examples students can easily understand.
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- Surfing Amusement Parks - Susan Rose; SCORE Mathematics
Your parents have given you the choice of going to any one of five amusement parks in California. They have asked that you choose one with an entrance fee that is the median price range. Surf the Internet to find how much it will cost for your family
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- Teaching Children Mathematics - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
An official journal of the NCTM, TCM is a forum for the exchange of ideas and a source of activities and pedagogical strategies for mathematics education pre-K-6. It presents new developments in curriculum, instruction, learning, and teacher education;
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- A Tribute to Miro - Kathy Sederquist, Namaste Art Center
Students learn how contemporary artists work by doing a painting in the style of the Catalan artist Joan Miró. The basic lines in drawing, including vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and curved, are reviewed through experimentation.
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- Uncovering Mathematics with Manipulatives and Calculators - Texas Instruments, Inc.
A text that provides K-6 activities emphasizing problem solving, reasoning, communications, and connections, clustered into four content strands: number sense; patterns, relations, and functions; measurement and geometry; and probability and statistics.
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- What In The World Would You Have? - Ric Cooley; SCORE Mathematics
Students use the Internet to calculate rates of exchange from U.S. currency to other countries, learning to understand conversion techniques. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE
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- Where do I want to live? - Jorretta Folley; SCORE Mathematics
Part of a larger Social Studies Project. Students use a variety of Internet sources to gather income and population data. They then use the data to compare states and make decisions. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California
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- Zeros and Blackbirds - Francie Caraker; SCORE Mathematics
Do you yearn to be high in the sky and far far away? This math lesson allows students to convert kilometers to miles and calculate the range that historical aircraft can travel. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California
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