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- Am I a Square?
- Students should discover how their height is related to their arm span. They will learn how to do spatial and visual estimation, use measuring tools, recognize factional parts of an inch, gather data, and organize and create a graph based on their findings.
- Author: Priscilla Hege
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Domino Fractions
- This is a review activity on the lesson of adding and simplifying fractions. This activity will provide a new approach to seeing a fraction and simplifying it, and the activity will allow students to set up and solve equations. This activity also works for subtraction of fractions.
- Author: Angelica Young
- Format: lesson plan (grades 5–6)
- Everyday, Ordinary Olympics
- Students will use a stopwatch to time themselves performing in various events, record data, and then compare and order decimals to determine bronze, silver and gold medal winners.
- Author: Linda Hill-Wise
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- The Grapes of Math
- The book The Grapes of Math is an excellent motivational picture book that models how to use different “thinking” skills to solve word problems by employing a variety of computation strategies. By reading and discussing the possible solutions to the examples provided in the text, students will begin to visualize possible methods to use when trying to solve word problems. Using other word problems to practice the application of these various strategies will enhance the students' abilities to recognize and then apply successful strategies for problem solving.
- Author: Deborah Cook
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- I Have, Who Has...?
- A chain drill involving teacher made cards on the skills of adding and subtracting fractions, and equivalent fractions. In this chain activity the student chosen to begin the chain will read the card aloud and then wait for the next participant to read the only card that would correctly follow the progression. Play continues until all of the cards are read and the initial student is ready to read his card for the second time.
- Author: Sherry Russell
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- M&M Madness
- Students will explore fractions, decimals, percents, and circle graphs with M&M's.
- Author: Donna Reble
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- Tree-ring dating
- In their study of dendrochronology, students use activity sheets and a discussion to apply principles of dendrochronology to determine a tree's age and to recognize climatic variation. They will also analyze and experience how archaeologists can sometimes use tree rings to date archaeological evidence and study past climates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- Birthdays and the Binary System: Exploring Binary Numbers in a Real-World Application
- This lesson revolves around patterns and place value in the binary system. Students are drawn into mathematics by the “magical” ability to guess an unknown number and by the use of birthdays.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–6)
- 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)
- 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)
- The clucking chicken
- In this lesson, students choose meals from a sample menu, construct a box plot and use the data to find the mean, mode, median, and range of the data set.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Collecting the rays
- In this lesson, from Illuminations, students explore how variations in solar collectors affect the energy absorbed. They make rectangular prisms that have the same volume but different linear dimensions.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Counting Embedded Figures
- Students look for patterns within a given figure, count embedded squares, rectangles, or triangles, attempt to form generalizations, and sharpen their algebraic thinking skills.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 5–8)
- Create an address number: Grades 5-6
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students look for all the possible solution sets for a mathematics problem involving a three-digit house number.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 5–6)
- Eggsactly with eighteen eggs
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students continue to examine fractions as part of a set.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Every breath you take
- This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, focuses on problem solving, reasoning, and communication skills. This lesson enables students to see connections among various mathematical concepts and principles in the real world.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Expanding our pattern block fraction repertoire
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students expand the number of fractions they can represent with pattern blocks by increasing the whole.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Exploring the value of the whole
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students consider the size or value of the same fraction when different “wholes” are compared. This lesson promotes problem-solving and reasoning as the students compare similar fractions.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- The factor game
- In this Illuminations lesson, students play the Factor Game, which engages students in a friendly contest where strategies involve distinguishing between numbers with many factors and numbers with few factors.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–8)
- Finding multiplication patterns
- In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students explore commutative properties, examine patterns when one factor is 6, and record known facts.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)