- 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
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- All Aboard! - Melanee Stearns, Libby Humason; SCORE Mathematics
Students take a "train trip" to a city of their choice. They should have prior experience with telling time, reading charts and maps, using compass directions (NSEW), and calculating distances on a map. Upon completion of this activity, students will
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Digi-Block - Digi-Block, LLC
Manipulatives for K-4 classrooms. Students pack individual blocks into holders to create larger blocks of 10, 100, and 1,000, exploring place value and operations and learning the base 10 number system visually and physically.
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- Dinosaur Math Web Page - Jan Rottner; SCORE Mathematics
Use the Internet to learn more about dinosaurs. Calculate average weights and heights. Also included are lines to dinosaur bibliographies. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics
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- 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
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- Dog-eared resource - Cyndie Jacks, Editor
Innovative, creative, "outside the box" lessons/activities and ideas for use with students in grades 1-4. Suggestions for children's books and relevant Web sites on a variety of topics, including mathematics, are found each issue of this subscription-based
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- 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
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- Equivalent Fractions (SMILE) - Gertrude Lockett, Emmanuel Christian School
A lesson for grade 4 designed to teach students to visualize and comprehend the relative values of fractions by making physical representations; use fractional parts of a "whole"; and recognize relative sizes and equivalent fractions. From the Arithmetic
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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
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- Fourth Grade (AAA Math) - John Banfill
Interactive math exercises, lessons, and games covering basic math requirements, concepts and methods, for fourth grade.
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- Fraction Help - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: How do I help students learn about fractions?
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- 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. Browse by grade level or consult the site map.
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- The Generation Of Fractions (SMILE) - June Muhammad, Park Manor School
A lesson that uses a unique multiplication grid to help students realize that simple fractions (reduced fractions) may have many appearances but the same value; and which is designed to help students learn how to factor each denominator completely. From
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- House of Math Word Problems for Children - MathStories.com, Inc.
More than 2,000 math word problems for grades 1-8, classified by grade and topic, with over 150 math word problem sheets, each focused on one topic with sufficient room for students to show their work. There are math work sheets based on history and science,
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- How Many Different Paths - Karen Wheeler; SCORE Mathematics
A discrete mathematics lesson for working on addition and multiplication skills, with connections to counting, adding, multiplying, and Pascal's triangle. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators
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- 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.
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- Introducing Powers and Models-I (SMILE) - Sarah Barrett, Mars Hill School
A lesson for grades 4-10 designed to teach students to discover how to square numbers; that squares are areas; the meaning of terms (exponent, to the power of, etc.); to visualize powers; to construct models and describe shapes; and to manipulate puzzle
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- 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
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- Junk Food Math (SMILE) - Sharon Ross, DeWitt Clinton School
A lesson for grades 3-4 designed to teach students estimation and to introduce percentage. From the Graphs and Visuals section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement.
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- 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
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- MARS - Mathematical Assessment Resource Service - Michigan State University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Shell Center for Mathematical Education at the University of Nottingham, England
The Mathematics Assessment Resource Service (MARS) works with districts and states on performance assessment design and implementation, and on professional development for designers and teachers. MARS provides consultancy and training of two broad kinds:
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- Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) - Massachusetts Department of Education
Test schedules, test items from prior years, scoring guidelines and student work on open-response questions, results of this state standardized testing, and performance appeals. Publications include questionnaires administered to students, interpretive
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- Math Activities for Grades K-4 - Biezad, Ward; NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Lesson plans based on aeronautical themes and NASA projects. Topics include: Converting Units and the SR-71; Predicting and Estimating Speeds and the SR-71; Shape Identification - Geometry in the Constellations: The ER-2; Geometry and Shapes in the X-36;
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- 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
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- 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.
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- Math Club - Sunny Hills Elementary School, Issaquah, WA
A voluntary math enrichment program for students in grades 4 and 5, developed by interested parents, working in collaboration with educators. The program is similar to programs at other Washington schools that compete in the state Math Olympiad. Online
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- mathlibs.org - Jessika Sobanski
Practice solving arithmetic word problems in "Mad Libs" format with Shockwave; explore fractions, probability, and rotation. Also, lessons in numbers, patterns, measurement, geometry, graphing, and probability.
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- Math Mysteries (Grades 4-7) - Tom Snyder Software
Students interact with characters to unravel mysteries, answering word problems along the way. Orders include a Teacher's Guide, a Whole Class CD, and 1, 5, 10, or 20 Mystery CDs. The Math Mysteries series includes units on Fractions, Measurement, and
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- Math/Social Studies Activity: The Pony Express - Rich McClelland; SCORE Mathematics
In the movement West, the Pony Express was a major influence in communications during its short life. Many students may be intrigued by the story of the Pony Express, and the following activities will help them discover a little about the route, and some
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- MathSURF - Pearson Education, Inc.
Activities and teaching tips designed to supplement Pearson/Scott Foresman and Pearson/Prentice Hall's math teaching materials for grades K-6. Activities are linked to chapters from textbooks and can be used as part of classroom instruction or on their
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- Math Tools Grade 4 - Math Forum
A community library of software tools for fourth grade math students (9-10 year-olds) and their teachers. Math4 is one section in the Math Forum's Math Tools digital library of software for computers, calculators, PDAs, and other handheld devices, with
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- Math Web-Linked Lesson Plans (grades 1-6) - McGraw-Hill School Division
Web-linked activities and lesson plans related to chapter themes in McGraw-Hill's mathematics program Math in My World, providing directed explorations of Web sites, with student project sheets to print, and teacher answer keys.
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- Math WebQuests - Leah P. McCoy, Dept. of Education, Wake Forest University
Projects that use Internet resources to obtain data, which are then analyzed and used in various mathematical exercises. Most math webquests involve cooperative groups where students work together in a constructivist setting to explore and understand
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- Mean, Median, Mode, etc. (SMILE) - Charlotte Goldwater, Kenwood Academy
A lesson for grades 4-12 designed to teach students to generate their own data and then analyze their information, teaching such concepts as mean, mode, and median; histogram; bar graph; probability; and circle graph. From the Probability and Statistics
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- The Million $ Mission - Cynthia Lanius
You have your choice of two payment options on your new job: 1. One cent on the first day, two cents on the second day, and double your salary every day thereafter for the thirty days; or 2. Exactly $1,000,000. (That's one million dollars!) What's the
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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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- Moogie Math
Windows software designed to prepare students for the Ohio 4th and 9th Grade Mathematics Proficiency Test. Other states can also be accomodated (specifically, Texas, Florida, and Nevada). Downloadable and online demos. Includes ideas for funding resources
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