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Strands of Math-

  • Here is a sample page for math journals- Journal Grid
  • The 4-3-2-1 Rubric for Grading Journal Entries
  • Math Debate Prompts
  • Math Introductions and Conclusions for the Day

    View the Math websites I have linked on Delicious

    Number Sense-

  • Multiplying Three Ways
  • The Equal 16 Card Game
  • Seeing Numbers
  • Math Magic Activities
  • Magic Square- Whichever way you add the numbers in the "magic square", the total is always 15.
  • Number Smarts|Scholastic- A unit about budgeting and the basics of finance for grades 4-5.
  • Scholastic Dyna Math Sample Magazine
  • The U.S. Mint Teacher Resource- A highly impressive resource with printable coins and all kinds of ideas for projects/lesson plans for grades K-8.
  • I Have, Who Has Game- From Mrs. Jensen in CA; Whole number game
  • Printable Yahtzee Sheet- Large for students to use when playing Yahtzee. Great for if you do not have any cards left from your Yahtzee game, or you can use any five dice to accompany the sheet.
  • Fraction Bars- A resource I randomly created one evening. Useful in teaching fractions.
  • Explore Multiplication Patterns- Each table has a pattern. The 4 times table products end in 4, 8, 2, 6, and 0 over and over again. The 6 products end in 6, 2, 8, 4, and 0 over and over again. The 12 tables also has a similar pattern. Explore these patterns to help you learn your multiplication tables in a more useful way than ever before.

    Geometry-

  • Geoboard Challenges
  • Construct 3-D Shapes from Toothpicks- Take toothpicks as well as marshmallows to make three-dimensional models like pyramids, cubes, and rectangular prisms. Explain the face as the two-dimensional shapes you see within the three-dimensional model. Explain the edges as the number of toothpicks each person had to use. Explain the vertices as the marshmallows. Find diameter by using standard or nonstandard measures with the toothpicks.
  • Bubble Geometry- from the A-Z Teacher Forums- One way that I help to make learning about circumference a little bit more entertaining is to go out and purchase bubbles for my class. We learn the formula and reasons behind the circumference of a circle and then head outside. While there, I give each group of students a bottle of bubbles and have them blow away! As the bubbles are floating back to the ground, they are to catch them on construction paper. The paper soaks up the burst bubble and forms a circle. Then the kids measure the diameter and compute the circumference of that bubble circle! (This can be done for radius and diameter as well.)
  • Hands-On Paper Models of Polyhedron
  • Degree Turn-Around- Find a photo you like in today’s newspaper. How many degrees do you have to turn it so it is upside down? Rotate it around so it is right-side up again? Where would your picture be if you rotated it 45 degrees to the right?
  • Area of a Newspaper Picture- Find a large photo in your favorite section of the newspaper. Measure and draw lines at 1-inch intervals along the base and side of the picture, creating a grid pattern. Using these 1-inch boxes, what is the approximate area of the photograph?
  • Digital Photography- Math Digital Camera Photos Walk around the school to get a digital camera dictionary made of- [these are just examples]- Acute angles, Obtuse Angles, Lines, Various Shapes, Tesselations
  • Area of Leaves- Gather fall leaves from outside, and place a transparent grid paper on top of the leaves. You can make transparent grid papers on the copy machine with overhead sheets. Find the square area of the leaves.
  • Battleship- Idea from Phyllis Haas- To review coordinates, play Battleship with a piece of grid paper on the Elmo or overhead. Have students guess (coordinates) where you have put your "vessels".

    Measurement-

  • Photo Spaces in the Newspaper
  • Irregular Area
  • Ice Cream in a Bag
  • Mini-Metric Olympics from AIMS

    Algebra-

    Data Analysis and Probability-

  • It's a Deal- Probability game modeled after Deal or No Deal
  • Daily Data
  • Converting Bar Graphs to Pie Graphs
  • Students' Favorite Colors
  • Probability of Choosing a Red Tile
  • Human Bar Graphs
  • Line Plot According to Student Heights
  • Bars, Lines and Pies!- Welcome to Bars, Lines, & Pies, a dynamic math program designed to build graphing skills in students, while showing them the relevance of math in their lives. Developed by The Actuarial Foundation along with Scholastic, the graphing lessons and activities inside involve engaging, real-world examples about the environment and recycling.

  • The next resources are from the St. Petersburg Times Newspapers in Education program- In the newspaper, check out the world cities listing of “Hi” and “Lo” temperatures today. What is the lowest temperature? The highest? Can you find a higher or lower temperature in any of the U.S. cities? Find the difference and average of the high & low temps.
  • What is the average chance of rain this week? Use the information on the weather page of the newspaper to calculate your answer.
  • In the newspaper, find the average, mean, mode, and median temperatures for cities in your state for today on the weather page. How do these compare to other states? Give specific information about the differences between two states and write a short paragraph explaining your results.
  • Find the average, mean, and median temperatures for cities in your state for today on the weather page. For an extended project, do this activity in the summer, fall, winter, and spring. Save your results for graphing in the spring!
  • Have students turn to the comics and give them 5 minutes to read all of the strips. Then have them rank the five funniest by numbering them 1 to 5, with 1 being the funniest. Write their #1 choices on the board. Then students can graph the results of the class poll and compute the percentage of the vote each strip received. Make bar and/or pie graphs. Extend by asking for range, mode, and median.
  • The Soda Taste Test- Students will try four types of clear soda (without brand names mentioned). Students will then vote on their favorite soda flavor of the four. Students will then choose the correct graph to display the class data.
  • Using Data to Identify Trends in the Newspaper- National Forecasting- Using the color-coded temperature range chart located above the U.S. map, which area/state/city shows temperatures in the 90’s? 70’s? 60’s? 50’s? 40’s?
  • NCES Create a Graph Website

    Themes-

  • Mathematics of the Heart|NCTM

    Music-

  • Rockin the Standards Music- Parallel or Perpendicular, Quadrilateral Dance, The Place Value Rap, Mean Mode Median, and songs for multiplication tables are a part of this website. You can purchase the songs on iTunes as well.
  • Mr. Duey- Fractions, GCF-LCM, Integers, Measurements, and Point Plotting are some of the awesome rap songs on this website that you can also download through iTunes.

    All-

  • Mathwire.com- A site dedicated to hands-on math. The printables there are superb. If you go to the bottom of the main page where you see the heading Math Topics, you can delve into a lot of resources.
  • Math and Science Guide from St. Petersburg Times Newspapers in Education
  • PBS Mathline- Math lesson plans with videos for you to watch. Similar to Learner.org.
  • Learner.org|Math- One of the greatest sites you will visit for examples, I guarantee. This website has fifty-three lessons for you.
  • NCTM On-Math Articles by Grade
  • Exercises for Math- Custom Fit- page 14- You call out, for example, “the distance from Tampa to Jacksonville” and students have to perform a specific exercise to show that the answer is “miles”. There are exercises for inches, feet, yards, and miles. Jumping Jack Math, page 16- You call out a multiplication problem, for example, and students have to perform that number of jumping jacks (or other exercise, described in the .pdf file) Operation Computation- page 18- Review the terms “sum”, “difference”, “product”, and “quotient”, and students do specific exercises to say that the problem you are calling out is addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. Size it Up- page 22- Reviews perimeter and area. Hot Tamale- page 28- You hide an object while a student is out of the classroom. Students then have to communicate to the one who was out of the classroom about which direction to go by doing specific exercises.
  • Exercise Cards- For the exercise website just mentioned. Cut the cards out, laminate them, and attach magnetic tape on the back to inform your students which exercise(s) you will be doing with them today.
  • "Daily Upkeep" Math Handouts
  • A Math Dictionary for Kids- One of the greatest math websites out there, in my opinion.

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