In this activity, the students will play a game called "Scramble, Scramble" to understand that a number represents a quantity. The students will indicate the number of students in each group or set.
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In this learning activity, students watch a free animated video from Numberock with a catchy song. Using their prior knowledge of multiplication, they will be introduced to the concept of multiplying whole numbers by fractions through the song lyrics and animations of the video. Students are then tasked with completing missing lyrics from the song to help them multiply a fraction by a whole number.
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This second-grade engagement activity uses Quick Images in a Number Talk format to begin to build a conceptual understanding of compensation, which is the underlying concept behind the "Make it Friendly" addition strategy.
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Students will use paper to model the partitioning of rectangles into two, three, and four equal shares. Students will transfer this concrete model to represent equal shares on a drawing, labeling the shares as halves, thirds, or fourths. Throughout the lesson, the teacher will use an interactive geoboard app to guide instruction and represent student ideas.
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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.
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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.
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In this interactive math learning activity from Math is Fun, students learn to solve multiplying fractions in 3 simple steps: multiply tops, multiply bottoms, and simplify. Students are able to watch a short video (16 seconds) demonstrating how to multiply fractions. They are given an example of a model and pen and paper solution for solving an equation and presented with a rhyme to help students remember the three steps for multiplying fractions.
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Students will go on a “shopping trip” to buy items with prices written both as decimals and fractions with 10 or 100 as the denominator. After they have decided which five items to “buy,” they will calculate the total cost of their items by adding fractions with 10 and 100 as the denominator. The students will use a visual model to represent the equivalence between fractions with different denominators.
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In this free interactive math learning activity from Math is Fun, students learn to gain an understanding of exponents as repeated multiplication by “playing” with an interactive exponent tool.
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This game builds on student knowledge of what fractions are, the size of various fractions, and how this relates to placing fractions on a number line.
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Students will play a game to practice adding fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 by creating equivalent fractions. For each question they get right, the students will get to choose a playing card from a deck. At the end of the game, they can trade in their cards for a prize.
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This is a free learning activity from Illustrative Mathematics. In this learning activity, students will read a headline about Giantburger restaurants, solve the real-world problem presented, and justify their reasoning.
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In this activity, the students will focus on the mathematical standard of counting and cardinality. Students will have opportunities to count orally, use hands-on manipulatives for counting, and other activities to build experiences in counting. Students practice counting skills, apply strategies, and ask and answer questions about counting.
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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.
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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.
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Students will apply what they know about fractions on the number line by explaining their thinking in a journal prompt.
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This learning activity is a teacher-led introduction to composing numbers and to building number sense foundation. It will provide students with a visual using literature. It will provide opportunities for a rich discussion about making numbers and provide time to introduce mathematical vocabulary. The discussion and recording of events from the book will help demonstrate ways to compose numbers in different ways. It is helpful to use this before playing interactive games that help with composing and decomposing numbers.
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In this activity, students will work in groups to create posters using Google Slides. Each poster will demonstrate an understanding of geometry words/skills that are prerequisites for computing the perimeters of polygons and the area of triangles in the coordinate plane. Students will complete this activity by providing constructive feedback to their peers via a virtual gallery walk.
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In this free interactive math learning activity from Math is Fun, students gain an understanding of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers by “playing” with an interactive tool.
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In this activity, students will complete an exit slip using Google Forms. Students will begin the activity by rating their understanding of computing perimeters of polygons and the area of triangles and rectangles in the coordinate plane. Finally, students will respond to a short answer question in order to demonstrate mastery of the content standard.
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In this learning activity, students are introduced to the concept of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers through an animated free math video from GCFLearnFree.org. In the video, a bird demonstrates how to move up and down the number line based on the operation and integers in the equation. It is a clever way to remember which direction to move based on the positive and negative numbers in the equation. Students then practice the tricks they learned using an interactive game.
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Through this activity, students will be introduced to the vocabulary terms "more than, less than, and equal to." Students will use these terms to make comparisons of sets of objects and gain an understanding of "more than, less than, and equal to."
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In this activity, students will demonstrate their knowledge of more than, less than and equal to by creating sets that match the terms.
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In this free learning activity from Illustrative Mathematics, students will be presented with a real-world problem involving Evan and his school bookstore account. Students will need to use the tricks they have learned about adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers to help Evan with his school bookstore account and justify their reasoning.
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In this final check, the students will connect counting to cardinality by indicating the number of objects in a set regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
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In this Desmos activity, students are guided through a series of questions to verify the relationships between the sides and angles of a 30°-60°-90° right triangle and a 45°-45°-90° triangle. This is intended to be a during activity for a lesson on discovering and applying relationships in similar right triangles.
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This video will be used to re-enforce the relationships between the sides and angles in special right triangles. The video has a catchy song that will help students remember the relationships.
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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.
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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.
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Desmos is a free online graphing calculator that has several mathematical applications that can be used in the classroom. The Trigonometry: Unit Circle Application is a tool that can be used to study the Unit Circle and the different parts that make up the Unit Circle such as reference angles, radian measure, trigonometric ratios, and angle measurements.
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CalcWorkshop is a subscription-based service, however, Unit Circle With Everything is a free webpage with printable PDFs. Unit Circle With Everything is a tool that can be used to study the Unit Circle and the different parts that make up the Unit Circle such as reference angles, radian measure, trigonometric ratios, and angle measurements.
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The Blank Unit Circle PDF is a tool that can be used to study the Unit Circle and the different parts that make up the Unit Circle such as reference angles, radian measure, trigonometric ratios, and angle measurements. After a lesson on the Unit Circle, students will be asked to fill out the Blank Unit Circle PDF to be turned in as an Exit Ticket.
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Students will review collecting data and bar graphs by watching a BrainPOP video. After a digital read-aloud of the book Insect Pollinators digital book, students will choose which insect that he/she thinks would make the best pollinator. Students will represent the data collected by creating and drawing a bar graph.
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This engaging learning activity will help students understand that the two digits in two-digit numbers represent the number of ones and tens. It will give the students opportunities to have hands-on experience making two-digit numbers using snap cubes. The students will visually see the numbers to begin comparing two-digit numbers.
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This activity is a digital entry ticket for students. Students will share real-life applications of polygons while completing this activity. The purpose of this activity is to develop student interest in the properties of polygons.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
