This Nrich problem gives learners the opportunity to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of money, while it includes calculating with percentage. It is also a good context for developing a recording system and a systematic approach.

This Nrich activity gives pupils the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing fractions. It extends the idea of finding a fraction of a whole to finding a fraction of 2. Working together on this task will encourage pupils to build their fraction vocabulary.

Unit: Area and Surface Area
Lesson 14: More Nets, More Surface Area

This lesson further develops students’ ability to visualize the relationship between nets and polyhedra and their capacity to reason about surface area.

Previously, students started with nets and visualized the polyhedra that could be assembled from the nets. Here they go in the other direction—from polyhedra to nets. They practice mentally unfolding three-dimensional shapes, drawing two-dimensional nets, and using them to calculate surface area. Students also have a chance to compare and contrast surface area and volume as measures of two distinct attributes of a three-dimensional figure.

This Nrich problem follows on from Twisting and Turning, in which students are introduced to an intriguing trick which provides a context for practicing manipulation of fractions. The trick is a hook to engage students' curiosity, leading to some intriguing mathematics to explore and explain, and ultimately generalize and prove.

The purpose of this task is to engage students in an open-ended modeling task that uses similarity of right triangles, and also requires the use of technology.

This Nrich problem provides the children with an opportunity to practise multiplying a single digit number by a multiple of 10. It also reinforces learning about equations being balanced and may lead to conversations about common factors. It encourages children to record their results, notice patterns and make predictions.

This problem provides the children with an opportunity to practice multiplying a single digit number by a multiple of 100. It also reinforces learning about equations being balanced and may lead to conversations about common factors. It encourages children to record their results, notice patterns and make predictions.

This Nrich problem provides the children with an opportunity to practice multiplying a multiple of 10 by another multiple of 10. It also reinforces learning about equations being balanced and may lead to conversations about common factors. It encourages children to record their results, notice patterns and make predictions.

(Nota: Esta es una traducción de un recurso educativo abierto creado por el Departamento de Educación del Estado de Nueva York (NYSED) como parte del proyecto "EngageNY" en 2013. Aunque el recurso real fue traducido por personas, la siguiente descripción se tradujo del inglés original usando Google Translate para ayudar a los usuarios potenciales a decidir si se adapta a sus necesidades y puede contener errores gramaticales o lingüísticos. La descripción original en inglés también se proporciona a continuación.)

Este módulo final del año de 40 días ofrece a los estudiantes una práctica intensiva con problemas de palabras, así como experiencias prácticas de investigación con geometría y perímetro. El módulo comienza con la resolución de problemas de palabras de uno y dos pasos basados ​​en una variedad de temas estudiados durante todo el año, utilizando las cuatro operaciones. A continuación, los estudiantes exploran la geometría. Estudiantes Tessellate para la experiencia de la geometría de puente con el estudio del perímetro. Las parcelas de línea, familiares del Módulo 6, ayudan a los estudiantes a sacar conclusiones sobre las mediciones de perímetro y área. Los estudiantes resuelven problemas de palabras que involucran área y perímetro utilizando las cuatro operaciones. El módulo concluye con un conjunto de lecciones atractivas que revisan brevemente los conceptos fundamentales de grado 3 de fracciones, multiplicación y división.

Encuentre el resto de los recursos matemáticos de Engageny en https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.

English Description:
This 40-day final module of the year offers students intensive practice with word problems, as well as hands-on investigation experiences with geometry and perimeter.  The module begins with solving one- and two-step word problems based on a variety of topics studied throughout the year, using all four operations.  Next students explore geometry.  Students tessellate to bridge geometry experience with the study of perimeter.  Line plots, familiar from Module 6, help students draw conclusions about perimeter and area measurements.  Students solve word problems involving area and perimeter using all four operations.  The module concludes with a set of engaging lessons that briefly review the fundamental Grade 3 concepts of fractions, multiplication, and division.

Find the rest of the EngageNY Mathematics resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.

The purpose of this task is for students to relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money.

In this lesson, students will learn that math is important in navigation and engineering. Ancient land and sea navigators started with the most basic of navigation equations (Speed x Time = Distance). Today, navigational satellites use equations that take into account the relative effects of space and time. However, even these high-tech wonders cannot be built without pure and simple math concepts basic geometry and trigonometry that have been used for thousands of years. In this lesson, these basic concepts are discussed and illustrated in the associated activities.

This task applies geometric concepts, namely properties of tangents to circles and of right triangles, in a modeling situation. The key geometric point in this task is to recognize that the line of sight from the mountain top towards the horizon is tangent to the earth. We can then use a right triangle where one leg is tangent to a circle and the other leg is the radius of the circle to investigate this situation.

Unit: Area and Surface Area
Lesson 14: Nets and Surface Area

Previously, students learned about polyhedra, analyzed and defined their features, and investigated their physical representations. Students also identified the polygons that compose a polyhedron; they recognized a net as an arrangement of these polygons and as a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional figure.

This lesson extends students' understanding of polyhedra and their nets. They practice visualizing the polyhedra that could be assembled from given nets and use nets to find the surface area of polyhedra.

Do art and math have anything in common? How do artists and architects use math to create their works? In these lessons, students will explore the intersection of math and art in the works of two artists and one architect for whom mathematical concepts (lines, angles, two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional polyhedra, fractions, ratios, and permutations) and geometric forms were fundamental.

This Nrich problem is an appealing way for children to recognize, interpret, describe and extend number sequences. Developing their own patterns, as in the later part of the activity, provides an opportunity for them to justify their own thinking, and evaluate others' patterns.

An interactive applet and associated web page that introduce the concept of a triangle. The applet shows a triangle where the user can drag the vertices to reshape it. As it is being dragged a base and altitude are shown continuously changing. Demonstrates that the altitude may require the base to be extended. The text on the page lists the properties of a triangle and lists the various triangle types, with links to a definition of each. 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.

The lesson begins by introducing Olympics as the unit theme. The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the techniques of engineering problem solving. Specific techniques covered in the lesson include brainstorming and the engineering design process. The importance of thinking out of the box is also stressed to show that while some tasks seem impossible, they can be done. This introduction includes a discussion of the engineering required to build grand, often complex, Olympic event centers.

This Nrich problem is based on the story of the three bears which is a good context in which to talk about ratio and proportion. In this case, it leads on to calculating with fractions.

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.