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- Bearly estimating
- This is a lesson which allows students to explore with estimation in cooperative learning groups.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Melissa Geiser.
- Estimating quantities
- Students will estimate items individually. As a whole group, they will check to determine the closest guess.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Aimee Stewart.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics)
- By Lisa Fletcher.
- Mass of maize
- Students will weigh different products made from corn to determine if a cup of each product has the same mass. Students will use measurement and estimation skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Julie Franklin.
- Candy math
- Unit on reviewing Math skills. The unit will take 20 minutes per day for 6 days. A good activity for late spring.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Tammy Sharpe.
- Week 3: Estimating material cost
- In Invention convention, page 8
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students will compile a list of needed materials to create their inventions. They will also calculate the cost to build their invention using mental estimation, computation, and calculators.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Math in the White House
- This plan uses an online tour of the White House to reinforce the concept of tallying.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Bunnie R. Brewer, Missy Colborn, Kathy Hale, Kim Roberson, and Emily White.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- By Priscilla Hege.
- Beaded bracelet multiplication
- Students complete a variety of estimation and multiplication activities to plan, create, and write directions for creating beaded bracelets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
- By Dayle Payne.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)
- By Barbara Crouch.
- The problem with parallax
- Students will increase their understanding of astronomical measurements by using parallax to measure distances on their school campus. They will also gain an appreciation of the difficulties with such measurements by statistically analyzing the class' results.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 and 9–12 Mathematics and Science)
- By Mark Clinkscales and Carrie Palmer.
- Home renovation: Working with area
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.9
- In this lesson for grade six, students will work together in cooperative groups using the internet to calculate the cost of finishing a basement.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics)
- By Teri Dammann.
- Soooooo tall!
- Students will build a figure out of Legos. There are two groups, and each group is competing with the other. Students build their tower of Legos as high as they can and then measure with a ruler or yard stick. The tower has to be free-standing so the children have to think of ways to keep the tower standing by itself.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics)
- By Beverly Rose.
- Estimating rational numbers
- Students round fractions and mixed numbers to their closest whole number by first changing the rational numbers into decimal numbers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- By Doreen Castelloe.
- 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.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By ann dawson.
- Spin away
- Children will work in groups using spinners with 4 colors to make predictions about probability, gather and record data, and make conclusions about outcome.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 7 Mathematics)
- By Gloria Wilson.
- A million fish... Serving up exaggeration
- Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Jennie McGuire.
- Algebra for the real world
- Students will solve real world and mathematical problem situations using simple algebraic concepts including variables and open sentences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- Raisins, Raisins, Raisins
- This lesson involves students in collecting data,organizing data into a line plot, discussing statistics, calculating mean, medain and mode and consumer awareness.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Mathematics)
- By Melanie Simmons.
