Learning Activities

In this activity, the teacher will present students with the video Partitioning Circles and Rectangles. The teacher will introduce and define the math terms whole, equal shares, partition, halves (half of), thirds (third of), and fourths (fourth of). The teacher will use the Google Slide presentation to build and activate students' background/prior knowledge of circles, and rectangles while expanding students' knowledge of the math terms.

This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.

In this learning activity, students will learn how to rewrite algebraic expressions by combining like terms. The students will apply properties of operations to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions. The lesson offers a teaching video and additional problems for partner work to check for understanding. 

This learning activity can be used as a stand-alone activity but is best used as a core lesson activity. 

The Illuminations tool, Product Game, is an excellent resource for students to gain a deeper understanding of factors and multiples. This tool challenges students to make offensive and defensive moves to obtain four products in a row by selecting factors ranging from one to nine. The challenge comes when one of the factors must be from your opponent’s last move. Students can either play against the computer or with a partner in their class.

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This activity is a game about adding and subtracting polynomials.

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 of a data set. The process of finding the standard deviation of a set of data values will be introduced. 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.

In this activity, the teacher will use the checklist provided to assess students' mastery in rote counting from any given number other than 1. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This activity can be used as an introduction or engagement activity to a lesson on division with large numbers. Students will participate in a mathematical conversation that allows them to express their thinking on the relationship between multiplication and division. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This activity guides students through the process of creating a graph of a particular data set. Students can produce a bar graph that compares different categories, a line graph that shows a change in something over time, or a pie graph that shows percentages of a whole. Students will select the most appropriate graph choice, input data, create labels and titles, and make design choices to enhance the graphic representation of the data.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity is intended to be used as an introductory lesson on rational exponents and solving exponential equations.  It can also be used as a bellringer for a day two lesson on rational exponents.

In this activity, students will determine the appropriate tools to measure objects outside, and then determine other tools that could be used to measure the objects. The students will use rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, or a measuring tape to measure items. Students will record their measurements in their science journals.

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.

During this learning activity, students will solve a quality task that allows students to find the product of a given problem using equal grouping. Cookie Monster needs help counting the number of cookies he is baking for the school's bake sale. Students will first build the problem using counters then solve the problem and write the multiplication expression that matches what they built. 

This engagement activity allows students to use metric measurements to measure the length of an object. The students will use strategies based on place value and the properties of operation to combine the length of multiple objects with the same length to solve a real-world metric measurement problem.

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In this activity, students will investigate patterns and relationships related to the interior and exterior angles of polygons.  Students will also use Geogebra to construct regular and irregular polygons. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This second-grade core learning activity provides students with an opportunity to explore the concept of compensation using both addend's unknown word problems. Compensation is a strategy based on place value. It is the underlying concept behind the "Making it Friendly" addition strategy. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students will work in groups to create cards using templates. Each card will have a model of the fraction, mixed number, or improper fraction. After making the cards, students will answer questions during a whole-class discussion to compare fractions with different numerators and denominators using visual models or benchmarks.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This activity expands students’ knowledge of the cultural identity and challenges facing indigenous groups in Latin America. Using the technology platform Padlet and the jigsaw classroom strategy, students will explore and take ownership of content. Interpersonal and presentational communication is used to engage in and share information between students.

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students will research jobs/professions using American Sign Language. They will identify and list various types of jobs/professions and the cities and states where these jobs are most concentrated. Students will identify a job in which they have a personal interest.

This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.

Students will choose a real estate property for rent or sale in a target language-speaking city to research. After choosing a property, students will record information that they can understand from the website, such as price, size, number of rooms, year of construction, date of availability, location, and special features. Students will be using the interpretive 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.

This online game requires students to save seven members of a Royal Family from prison by using their order of operation skills to build stairways leading to their secret cells.

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 learn how to find the components of a vector by subtracting the coordinates of an initial point from the coordinates of a terminal point. This learning activity can be used as a stand-alone activity or a core lesson activity. Corresponding activities can be found in the Notes or Recommendations section.

This learning activity introduces a numberless word problem that asks students to write an addition word problem. The task involves students exploring combinations of numbers that make ten. The students will start with "what do we know" and end with "how many could be." The activity will allow students to have multiple correct responses.

This learning activity allows students to explain their thinking to find the unknown side of a polygon when the perimeter is given. Students will solve three different problems where the perimeter is given and knowledge of polygon attributes are needed to find the missing sides. This activity can be used as an assessment or an extension activity after students have mastered how to find the perimeter of a polygon. 

In this activity, students will practice decomposing a number in multiple ways using pictures and recording the decomposition using pictures and numbers.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This activity allows teachers to formatively assess students' understanding of multiplicative rates of change from different representations. The activity presents four different viruses of different spread rates, and students are to determine which virus is the most virulent and justify their responses.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity is a free interactive fraction game from Math Games that will give students the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of multiplying a whole number by a fraction. Students will be asked a series of word problems involving multiplying a whole number by a fraction. Some questions will have multiple choice answers and some will require a free-response. There are four different levels of the game. Students advance each level based on the number of correct questions answered. This activity should be used at the end of a lesson on multiplying a whole number by a fraction to assess mastery of the standard.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In this activity, students will match the number cards to the correct quantities represented on a ten frame spinner. Students will count each quantity aloud while finger pointing to the colored dots on the ten frame. Students will then write the given numerals from 0 to 10 correctly next to the ten frame on their ten frame spinner page.

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In this learning activity, students will be introduced to the concept that skip counting by 4s will result in an even number since 4 is an even number. This learning activity may be used before learning the four multiplication facts to engage students through singing and movement with numbers. 

This alignment is the result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This lesson will connect students with actual artists from Nicaragua while introducing the topic of fair-trade, non-profit organizations as well as opening up the classroom for a discussion on the culture of Central America. It is best to partner this lesson with your school’s Pulsera Project sale, but all resources are available whether or not the sale occurs at your school. You can start the completely free service-learning project by visiting: http://www.pulseraproject.org/getinvolved. The lesson is best for a block schedule or consider providing extended time depending on class make-up/target language reading level of students.

This activity was created as a result of the World Languages Course of Study Resource Development Summit.

Students will choose a real estate property for rent or sale in a target language city to research and then present to the class as a group. The students will prepare a group presentation about their property, in which they will speak freely to the class in the target language giving the basic information about the overall property and descriptions of each furnished room. Students will be using the interpretive and presentational modes 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.

This learning activity should be done at the end of a lesson on factors and multiples. The teacher will pose a real-world problem that requires the students to create multiple designs for a tabletop using all the factors of 24.  Using virtual manipulatives, students will work individually to create multiple designs for a table using all the factors of 24.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.

In the learning activity, students will review the Fundamental Counting Principle. After the students have reviewed the Fundamental Counting Principle, the students will use an exit ticket to assess their understanding of the topic. This activity is to be used as an after-activity.

In this task, students will be exploring number patterns as they add or subtract ten and as they add or subtract 100. The students will see what happens to the digit values in numbers as they work through this activity.

This learning activity will provide online practice with solving word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions. The students will use strategies they learned to solve the problems presented to them in this engaging online game. This is a helpful tool to measure the students' application of skills.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity will be used to add and subtract vectors and is intended for an assessment activity. The students will complete the Adding and Subtracting Vectors Assessment to demonstrate mastery of how to add vectors end-to-end, component-wise, and by the parallelogram rule, determine the direction of their sum, represent vector subtraction graphically by connecting the tips in the appropriate order, and perform vector subtraction component-wise. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In this activity, students will demonstrate their knowledge of more than, less than and equal to by creating sets that match the terms.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.