Comparing Growth, Variation 2
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this task is to assess studentsŐ understanding of multiplicative and additive reasoning.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
All resources in Hawaii Math Common Core
Using a Coordinate Grid
(View Complete Item Description)In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad must locate each other using a map's grid to construct a coordinate system using letters and numbers.
Material Type: Lecture
Falling Water
(View Complete Item Description)Students drop water from different heights to demonstrate the conversion of water's potential energy to kinetic energy. They see how varying the height from which water is dropped affects the splash size. They follow good experiment protocol, take measurements, calculate averages and graph results. In seeing how falling water can be used to do work, they also learn how this energy transformation figures into the engineering design and construction of hydroelectric power plants, dams and reservoirs.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Feed That Dog
(View Complete Item Description)The CyberSquad solves the problem of giving equal parts of two apples to Cerberus, the three headed dog of Greek mythology, in this video from Cyberchase.
Material Type: Lecture
Three Equal Shares
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must divide a wreath into three equal parts to satisfy the demands of the Three Fates. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
Area of a square. Definition and formula
(View Complete Item Description)An interactive applet and associated web page that demonstrate the area of a square. The applet shows a square with all vertices draggable. As you drag any one, the area id continuously calculated and shown on the applet. The square is filled with a unit grid to allow class estimation of area. The displayed calculation can be turned off. Applet can be enlarged to full screen size for use with a classroom projector. This resource is a component of the Math Open Reference Interactive Geometry textbook project at http://www.mathopenref.com.
Material Type: Reading, Simulation
Area of a rectangle. Definition and formula
(View Complete Item Description)A web page and interactive applet showing the ways to calculate the area of a rectangle. The user can drag the vertices of the rectangle and the other points change automatically to ensure it remains a rectangle. A grid inside the shape allows students to estimate the area visually, then check against the actual computed area. The text on the page gives three different ways to calculate the area with a formula for each. The applet uses one of the methods to compute the area in real time, so it changes as the rectangle is reshaped with the mouse. A companion page is http://www.mathopenref.com/rectangle.html showing the definition and properties of a rectangle Applet can be enlarged to full screen size for use with a classroom projector. This resource is a component of the Math Open Reference Interactive Geometry textbook project at http://www.mathopenref.com.
Material Type: Reading, Simulation
Everyday, Ordinary Olympics
(View Complete Item Description)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.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Great Lesson Ideas: Games for Decimals
(View Complete Item Description)Tiffani Poirier uses the game "Fill Two" to solidify her students' understanding of adding tenths and hundredths. Students draw cards of different decimal amounts, add the amounts, and color in the corresponding amount in a ten by ten grid. The player who comes closest to a total of two wins.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn and practice the correct order of operations. The lesson will begin with a motivational group-art activity. Students will then take notes and do a "pass the paper" activity for practice. This will be followed by students creating their own problems.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Multiple Representations of Numeric Patterning
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is a re-engagement lesson designed for learners to revisit a problem-solving task they have already experienced. Students will activate prior knowledge of graphical representations through the 'what's my rule' number talk; compare and contrast two different learners' interpretations of the growing pattern; use multiple representations to demonstrate how one of these learners would represent the numeric pattern; make connections between the different representations to more critically compare the two interpretations. (5th/6th Grade Math)
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Laws of Arithmetic
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to: Perform arithmetic operations, including those involving whole-number exponents, recognizing and applying the conventional order of operations; Write and evaluate numerical expressions from diagrammatic representations and be able to identify equivalent expressions; apply the distributive and commutative properties appropriately; and use the method for finding areas of compound rectangles.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
Evaluating Statements About Length and Area
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students can: Understand the concepts of length and area; use the concept of area in proving why two areas are or are not equal; and construct their own examples and counterexamples to help justify or refute conjectures.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
Optimizing: Security Cameras
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson unit is intended to help sixth grade teachers assess how well students are able to: Analyze a realistic situation mathematically; construct sight lines to decide which areas of a room are visible or hidden from a camera; find and compare areas of triangles and quadrilaterals; and calculate and compare percentages and/or fractions of areas.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
In a Land of Giants
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must scale down a large boat to escape the land of Proporciona, a land of giants. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
Material Type: Lecture
Sharing Costs: Travelling to School
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to solve a real-world modeling problem. There are several correct approaches to the problem, including some that involve proportional relationships.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
Designing: Candy Cartons
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: Select appropriate mathematical methods to use for an unstructured problem; interpret a problem situation, identifying constraints and variables, and specify assumptions; work with 2- and 3-dimensional shapes to solve a problem involving capacity and surface area; and communicate their reasoning clearly.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
Inventing Negative Numbers
(View Complete Item Description)In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad locates the Cyberchase Council by using negative numbers.
Material Type: Lecture
Bake Sale
(View Complete Item Description)This series of word problems requires students to apply the concepts of factors and common factors in a context.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Cup of Rice
(View Complete Item Description)One common mistake students make when dividing fractions using visuals is the confusion between remainder and the fractional part of a mixed number answer.
Material Type: Activity/Lab