Classroom Resources

In this Desmos activity, students will use their existing understanding of translations, reflections, and rotations to complete a round of transformation golf. For each challenge, their task is the same: use one or more transformations to transform the pre-image onto the image. This activity could be used to help teach a lesson on transformation. This Desmos activity offers sample student responses and a teacher guide.

In this Desmos activity, students will use their existing understanding of translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations to complete a round of transformation golf. For each challenge, their task is the same: use one or more transformations to transform the pre-image onto the image. This activity could be used to help teach a lesson on translations. This Desmos activity offers sample student responses and a teacher guide.

In this classroom resource from Desmos, students will explore what happens when they dilate a single point from a center through playing rounds of mini-golf. The students will move from informal to formal ways of determining the relationships between the center, the pre-image, the image, and the scale factor. This resource could be used to help teach a lesson on dilations. The resource includes sample student responses and a teacher guide.

In this PhET activity, students will explore vectors in 1D or 2D, and discover how vectors add together. Students will specify vectors in Cartesian or polar coordinates, and see the magnitude, angle, and components of each vector. Students will experiment with vector equations and compare vector sums and differences. This activity could be used to help teach a lesson on probability. This PheET activity can be downloaded and assigned to Google Classroom.

Elementary students practice multiplication facts using the scores from baseball and basketball games. 

Take the court with retired NBA star and current basketball analyst Kendall Gill to learn about the science of the perfect shot. We use angles every day—to build ramps and slides, steer a car, shoot basketballs, throw baseballs, and kick soccer balls. In fact, the science of angles is in almost every sport we play and every movement we make, so go out and play a game with your kids.

Follow three young bird watchers as they count how many birds they can find outside. The bird watchers count how many cardinals, blue jays, and goldfinches they can find outside, then learn how to chart the results. 

One of the visual tools students will use in Kindergarten is the 10-frame card. They will know a 10-frame card as five on top and 5 on the bottom. It is important they understand five without needing to re-count each time. The students will add and subtract with the 10 frame card and begin to understand fractions.

Learn about place value and the base-10 number system. This video focuses on using what you know about place value to determine what value each of the three digits represents.

Find the value of digits by exploring the number 342.98. This video focuses on using what you know about place value to determine what each digit represents in a number that extends to the hundredths place.

In this activity from Khan Academy, students will review the common properties of exponents that allow them to rewrite powers in different ways. For example, x²⋅x³ can be written as  x⁵. This activity has embedded videos, practice problems with immediate checks for the correctness of answers, and an explanation option. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom. 

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In this activity from Khan Academy, students will review solving multi-step equations. The students will solve two-step equations, equations with variables on both sides, and equations using the Distributive Property. This activity has embedded videos, practice problems with immediate checks for the correctness of answers, an explanation option, and more practice choice at the end of the lesson. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom. 

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In this activity from Khan Academy, students will review factoring simple quadratics. The students will factor as the product of two binomials. This activity has embedded videos, practice problems with immediate checks for the correctness of answers, an explanation option, and more practice choice at the end of the lesson. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom.

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In this activity from Khan Academy, students will practice putting factoring methods together to completely factor quadratic expressions of any form. This activity has embedded videos, practice problems with immediate checks for the correctness of answers, an explanation option, and more practice choice at the end of the lesson. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom. 

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In this activity from Khan Academy, students will review how to multiply binomials like 1 + x by polynomials with more than two terms like x^2 - 5x - 6. This activity has embedded videos, practice problems with immediate checks for the correctness of answers, an explanation option, and more practice choice at the end of the lesson. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom. 

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In this activity from Khan Academy, students will review adding and subtracting polynomials. This activity has embedded videos, practice problems with immediate checks for the correctness of answers, an explanation option, and more practice choice at the end of the lesson. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom. 

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In this activity from Khan Academy, students will review how to graph and solve compound inequalities. This activity has embedded videos, practice problems with immediate checks for the correctness of answers, an explanation option, and more practice choice at the end of the lesson. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom. 

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In this activity from Khan Academy, students will review their knowledge of ellipse equations and their features: center, radii, and foci. This activity has an embedded video, practice problem with immediate checks for the correctness of answers, an explanation option, and more practice choice at the end of the lesson. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom. 

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In this activity from Khan Academy, students will review their knowledge of the foci of an ellipse. This activity has an embedded video, practice problem with an immediate check for the correctness of the answer, an explanation option, and more practice choice at the end of the lesson. This review can be assigned to Google Classroom. 

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In this instructional video and practice activity from Khan Academy, students will explore how the radii and the foci of an ellipse relate to each other and how this relationship can be used to find the foci from the equation of an ellipse. This video can be used during a lesson on solving systems of equations. The video is 13 minutes and 48 seconds in length and can be assigned through Google Classroom. There are practice problems included after the video.

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Oscar needs to calculate the value of an unknown addend in a subtraction formula in order to feed the Odd Squad hamster. This video clip helps students understand the relationship between addition and subtraction.

Learn about identifying patterns with the Odd Squad. Olive's favorite basketball team is having trouble with the number 13 on the court.

Agent Oscar scans the Bears basketball team to see if they're carrying the number 13. He scans each player and determines if the items in their pockets equal 13  when added together.

Two-Headed Monster has arrived to demonstrate the rectangle shape. The problem is, they don't seem to know what a rectangle looks like. Instead, they pull out two triangles. They discover, however, that two triangles can be used to make one rectangle. This resource teaches shapes.

Shapes are everywhere—you just have to know what to look for. A dinner plate might be a circle; a piece of pizza might be a triangle, and a door frame might be a rectangle. Talk to your students about different shapes, then scout your classroom for more.

In this "Cyberchase" video clip, the kids create their own bar graph to track the amount of bugs in the main Cybrary. They compare their bar graph to the one that Hacker created (to trick Ms. Fileshare, the librarian) and realize that the two bar graphs are based on different scales.

Learn about counting in bundles of tens in this fun clip from the Odd Squad. Miss O coaxes her old partner out of retirement to solve an old case.

In this activity from The Electric Company, students will review the components of and practice reading and creating bar graphs. Included are simple teacher-led activities and hands-on exercises for students.

To make the "expanded" form of a number, break it down to its ones, tens, hundreds, and other place values. Understanding how to break numbers down assist students in understanding various problem-solving strategies. This resource provides videos and practice problems that explore this skill.

Part of using base-ten numbers correctly is understanding how to express the same number in different forms. This video demonstrates how to express base-ten numerals written in standard form, unit form, expanded form, and number name.

In this activity, children will explore simple math activities using the numbers one through ten. Children will represent numbers in different ways, such as drawing quantities (*, **, ***); writing numerals (1, 2, 3); and using number words (one, two, three). 

During this adventure, children learn the colors of the rainbow as they practice counting and representing quantities with numbers. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or online game that encourages children to explore math concepts and skills related to numbers and operations.

Use a visual model to subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators. This video focuses on using an equivalent fractions chart to compare fractions and find the missing piece.

Use a visual model to add fractions with like and unlike denominators. This video focuses on using an equivalent fractions chart to compare fractions and find the correct sum.

This classroom resource provides a video that describes place value and how it can be used to decompose numbers. These key concepts will be addressed: place value, digit, expanded form, standard form, and period. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.