In this activity, students have to use their knowledge of place value to determine the numbers being compared. Then, students will compare the numbers using the correct comparison symbol of <, >, or =.
In this learning activity, students will watch a video Graphing on the Coordinate Plane from Simplify the Middle. Students will learn how to graph points as well as how to identify a point that has already been graphed. After watching the video, students will complete an exit ticket to demonstrate their understanding.
In this lesson, students will use an online spinner to explore theoretical and experimental probabilities. Students will also make predictions and support their reasoning before completing a probability experiment. Then students will design a spinner where all the sections are not uniform. To be able to compare results, the only variable changed is the size of the sections. Students will express probability results in both percent and fraction forms. Finally, students will reflect on a simulation of a given event.
After a lesson on adding and subtracting polynomials, the students will complete an exit ticket by picking three questions from The Thinking Tree to answer.
This resource was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will work through a Desmos activity on Normal Distribution. They will be reminded of how to find the mean and standard deviation of a data set. Students will practice doing both calculations. Next, using the mean and standard deviation they will define the intervals in a normal curve and will approximate the percentage of items in each interval using the Empirical Rule.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students can graph the parent functions. They will use paper and pencil to graph the basic parent functions and list the key features of each function.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will play a game in which they will use place value understanding and strategies to create and solve multi-digit multiplication problems that have the greatest product.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students are given the scenario of being commissioned to create a stained-glass window for a new architecture firm. This provides a real-world scenario for students to practice graphing systems of equations (simultaneous pairs of linear equations), as well as creating systems of equations when given constraints.
This activity is a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity should be used at the end of a lesson on recognizing angle measure as additive. The students will find missing angle measurements using a real-world problem. This learning activity can be used as an assessment.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.
This activity is for a virtual hundreds chart puzzle game. Students can use the puzzle to explore number patterns within 100, finding 10 more, 10 less, 1 more, and 1 less of a given number. This activity will be best used after students are familiar with a hundreds chart.
This activity was created as a result of the DLCS COS Resource Development Summit.
In this learning activity, students will create a Voki as a creative, easy-to-use tool that will help motivate students, improve lesson comprehension, and student participation. Students will use a Voki to define key mathematical terms ( factors, sum, terms, product, quotient, coefficients) needed to identify parts of an expression.
This alignment is a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This interactive mathematics resource explores the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons and allows students to classify shapes based on their properties.
This interactive has an "explore it" tool that could be used to teach attributes of 2D shapes, and also a "use it" Shape Guess game that students can practice identifying and sorting shapes according to their attributes.
This learning activity was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.
In this learning activity, students will practice using the properties of exponents to rewrite expressions involving radicals and rational exponents. linear expressions using the properties of operations. This learning activity should be used after a lesson on rational exponents and solving exponential equations. It can be used as extra practice or as an assessment.
This learning activity is a great way to add high interest over multiple grade 1 standards. It can be used after the study of addition and subtraction within 20, organizing data, classifying, sorting, and basic computer skills. This activity can be completed as a partner activity/assessment or an independent activity/assessment.
This learning activity was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science (GEMS) Resource Development Project, in partnership with Dothan City Schools.
This learning activity allows the students to develop critical number sense that will help with their understanding of multiplication and equal groupings. In this learning activity, students will be shown a dot image for 3 seconds. Students will have to quickly determine the amount of total dots on the screen before they disappear. This activity helps students develop an understanding of quantity. Students will have to quickly look at the image and determine how many groups are in the image and how many dots are in each group. They will then use mental math to calculate the product of the image.
During this explore measurement activity, students will collaborate to solve a real-world math problem. The problem requires students to use multiple addends and report their solution in centimeters.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will complete an online quiz using Go Formative. Students will answer varying types of assessment questions in order to demonstrate mastery of angle relationships found in regular and irregular polygons.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This second-grade activity is designed for students to use the "Make it Friendly" strategy as an efficient computation strategy to solve a word problem. The "Make it Friendly" strategy is a place value strategy based on the underlying concept of compensation. Students are presented with a parallel task, which includes three-word problems that use numbers with varying magnitudes. The students are allowed to solve the problem of their choice.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will use the Quizizz response system to review multiplying matrices by scalars to produce new matrices. This Scalar Multiplication of Matrices Review Quizizz game has twenty questions to test the understanding of multiplying matrices by scalars and is intended to be used as an after activity. Quizizz allows the teacher to conduct student-paced formative assessments- through quizzing, collaboration, peer-led discussions, and presentation of content in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity Solving Exponential and Logarithmic Equations will be used at the end of a lesson on understanding the inverse relationship between exponents and logarithms and using this relationship to solve problems involving logarithms and exponents.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Create a fun, fictional family in the classroom. This should be a humorous activity. View the family signs and pronoun video, then proceed with the activity. The whole class will be involved as the family members attending a wedding. They will be trying to identify family members and relationships by asking yes/no and ‘wh’ questions with personal and possessive pronouns and answering factual information.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
Students will research sights to see in a German-speaking city on an official tourism website in the target language. Students will create a suggested travel itinerary for a weekend visit to the city. (This lesson includes 2 phases, uploaded as separate learning activities.)
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will use a teacher-provided menu and generate a list of a three-course meal with all possible combinations containing one appetizer, one main course, and one dessert. The students will work individually to start the lesson and then move to partner work. The students will work with a partner to determine the best way to create a complete list and answer follow-up questions. Finally, the students will be asked to use the Fundamental Counting Principle to determine the number of outcomes instead of making a list. This learning activity is intended to be a Before Activity prior to a lesson on the Fundamental Counting Principle.
In this learning activity, students will learn to find the standard deviation and be able to find the similarities and differences in 4 data sets. These sets have the same mean but different ranges and standard deviations. Students will discover that the standard deviation increases when points are further away from the mean, even those in the middle. This learning activity is intended to be a During Activity for a standard deviation lesson.
During this learning activity, students will solve a real-life task that allows students to find the perimeter of several pools (polygons). Students will write equations and solve them to find the perimeter of several polygons.
In this activity, students will practice generating a variety of ways to decompose a number and record their decomposition using pictures, numbers, or equations to build their understanding.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will sing along and dance with a video while counting objects in the video between numbers 1 through 10.
This activity was created as a result of the Resource Development Summit.
Students will use a real-life situation to explore fractions on the number line. This Google Slide Show presents a scenario about students competing in a race in P.E. Students use that information to place fractions on a number line.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this Desmos activity, students will explore the special relationships between the sides of a 30-60-90 triangle and a 45-45-90 triangle. This is intended to be a before activity for a lesson on the relationships of special right triangles and their connection to trigonometry.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will roll a die to fill in the prices of different ingredients for each meal on a menu. They will need to add, subtract, and multiply decimals to answer questions about the meals.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this lesson, students will use the concept of finding the probability of an offspring having more than one genetic trait simultaneously. They will use a shortcut method to find the probability and they will use a Punnett square calculator to check their answers. This lesson can be used to teach genetics in a science classroom or a practical "real world" application of probability calculations in a math classroom.
This activity was created as a result of the GAP Resource Summit.
Students will discuss real estate properties for rent or sale in a target language city with a partner. Students will carry on a conversation in the target language, asking and answering questions with a partner about which property is their favorite and why, agreeing or disagreeing with their partner, and providing a reason for their opinion. Students will be using the interpersonal mode of communication, as well as strengthening their understanding of products and practices of the culture.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
While students are in pairs and without being able to see each other, student 1 designs and provides oral instructions to student 2 in order for student 2 to recreate a shape and/or structure only student 1 can see. Student 2 can ask clarifying questions, but that is all. This activity builds skills in sequencing, classifying, sorting, orientation, and relative position of objects. It also builds listening skills for oral comprehension and asking and answering concise questions.
This activity was created as a result of the DLCS COS Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will practice comparing three-digit numbers by playing a game. The students will work with a partner to draw three cards, arrange the cards to make the largest number, and then decide which student has the largest number. This learning activity will help the students understand place values and the words "equal to", "less than", or "greater than."
This activity is a hands-on inquiry math lesson where students are asked to prove how many sugar cubes are in a box. They will measure the volume of a rectangular prism by counting non-standard units and make a connection to multiplying the three edge lengths in the standard formula.
