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- Book Order Math
- Using a book order catalog, students will calculate costs for their book choices, learn how to write a check, and to fill out an order form.
- Author: Teri Dammann
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Grocery Store Technology
- Students will identify how technology has changed in an occupation over time. This is also an introductory rounding/estimation lesson using addition of money.
- Author: Barbara Crouch
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- M&M Math
- M&M Math provides students with hands-on activities. Students will be sorting objects, comparing whole numbers, writing fractions, performing addition, subtraction, and division problems with the use of manipulatives.
- Author: Angela Gillie
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Milk It for All It's Worth
- Students will cooperatively discover the equivalent measures of capacity. In addition, students will be given a unit price of milk and will be asked to calculate the price of other units of capacity based on the price given. They will then use this information to determine the most economical buy.
- Author: ann dawson
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Money and More Money
- Students will use problem solving skills and knowledge to solve a given problem using money. This activity will help enhance the students' self concept, and understanding the importance of learning basic money skills.
- Author: Betty Black
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Musical Money
- Musical Money is a game to help reinforce counting different amounts of money. It is fashioned after the game Musical Chairs.
- Author: Brenda Allred
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Piggin Out with Money
- Students will work with money manipulatives to solve word problems that involve adding money amounts and making change. The lesson is introduced with the literature book, Pigs Will be Pigs. After solving the problems posed in the book, the students will work with partners to create their "pig problems". Assessment will require students to solve similar problems on a teacher made worksheet. When time allows, each student will have the opportunity to go to an Internet site to work with money problems and games.
- Author: Cherry Rouse
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Place Value to the Thousands Place (Review Activity)
- Students will use number cards with the digits 0-9, and a place value chart with thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones columns to play this game using place value.
- Author: Beth Evans
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Rounding Ball
- This lesson is designed to help students become more efficient at rounding numbers to tens and hundreds using mental math methods. It will help students become quick thinkers and stay focused.
- Author: Brenda Seymour
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Shopping Spree
- Students will practice counting money up to five dollars using grocery ads from local stores.
- Author: Lauren Gary
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Solid Graphing
- The students will review solid figures using a baggie of assorted snack mix (cones, cubes, cylinders, and spheres) and will begin a vertical bar graph showing the number of each solid figure in a bag of assorted snack mix.
- Author: Lisa Fletcher
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Story Problems Made Interesting
- After introducing students to story problem stategies, students will be asked to write their own story problem(s). The problems must deal with real life situations. Fantasy worlds and silly situations are not allowed. Each student must also be able to solve their own problem(s). If the problems are not entered into a computer and saved on a disk by the students, then the teacher will compile groups of problems for the students to solve. The author's name of each problem should be attached to the problem. If a student needs help solving a problem, he/she is only allowed to ask the author of that problem for assistance.
- Author: Tim Galliher
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Time Marches On!
- Students will create autobiographical time lines, noting important events in their lives. Using these timelines, students will create word problems for their classmates to solve.
- Author: Jennifer Gayford
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- You're the Cashier!
- Students will use manipulatives and computers to count back change from amounts up to $5.00.
- Author: Lynn Tugwell
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Bag the beans
- Students work with manipulatives (beans) to create and solve math problems, some of which have more than one correct answer.
- Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Balance beam discoveries
- This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, encourages students to explore two models of multiplication: the balance beam and the inverse of multiplication.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Beverage sharing and serving
- This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, focuses on student organization, preparation, and presentation of some simple foods as a way to apply various mathematical concepts, with problem-solving techniques being a central theme.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- A brownie bake
- This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, focuses on student organization, preparation, and presentation of some simple foods as a way to apply various mathematical concepts, with problem-solving techniques being a central theme.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Changes in change
- Students visit a website that gives them practice in counting money.
- Provider: National Council on Economic Education
- Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)
- Class attributes
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students create their own classroom survey or use the reproducible classroom Survey handout to study the class and describe the set (class) in fractional parts.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)