In this task, the students are not asked to find an answer, but are asked to analyze word problems and explain their thinking. In the process, they are faced with varying ways of thinking about multiplication.
Students will work with a partner to write, solve, check, and animate a division story problem based on a division expression using a sharing model.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about total length - challenge problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about time and rate problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about determining task length.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about creating largest and smallest numbers given digits.
Remember your multiplication tables? ... me neither. Brush up on your multiplication, division, and factoring skills with this exciting game. No calculators allowed! The students will be given mutiplication and division problems which they must answer. They also have the option of being given a number then stating the factors of how that number was attained using either multiplication or division.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about arranging numbers in specific order (numbers to 1,000).
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about arranging numbers in specific orders.
The purpose of this learning video is to show students how to think more freely about math and science problems. Sometimes getting an approximate answer in a much shorter period of time is well worth the time saved. This video explores techniques for making quick, back-of-the-envelope approximations that are not only surprisingly accurate, but are also illuminating for building intuition in understanding science. This video touches upon 10th-grade level Algebra I and first-year high school physics, but the concepts covered (velocity, distance, mass, etc) are basic enough that science-oriented younger students would understand. If desired, teachers may bring in pendula of various lengths, weights to hang, and a stopwatch to measure period. Examples of in- class exercises for between the video segments include: asking students to estimate 29 x 31 without a calculator or paper and pencil; and asking students how close they can get to a black hole without getting sucked in.
Properties of multiplication
These 3 word problems require students to solve addition and subtraction problems.
The purpose of this task is to provide students with a concrete situation they can model by dividing a whole number by a unit fraction.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about before and after problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about bills and coins - word problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about bills and coins - word problems.
Unit plan for teaching multiplication that includes a choice board and options for individualization.
The purpose of this game is to help students think flexibly about numbers and operations and to record multiple operations using proper notation.
This instructional task requires students to figure out word problems that require thinking in base 10.
Students use addition or subtraction to solve these types of word problems.