Learning Activities

This learning activity will build students' understanding of place value. The students will work with a partner to play a game to build two-digit numbers in hopes of being the first to build a tower. This activity will lead to students' understanding of math and place value while being actively engaged in the activity.

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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. 

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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.

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This engaging learning activity will allow students to compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits and record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.  The students will enjoy using the mathematical understanding of place value using dice to create numbers. The students will use mathematical reasoning to decide if the numbers are greater than, less than or equal to. This activity makes comparing numbers fun!

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Coloring With the Unit Circle is a Google Doc tool that allows the student 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. The student will find and color the reference angles on the unit circle.

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This learning activity contains 6 formative assessments and 1 summative assessment on using addition and subtraction to solve word problems within 20. In each assessment, students solve for the sum or difference in a word problem.  Students should justify their answers using concrete objects or drawings. 

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Cutting Up With the Unit Circle is a Google Doc tool that allows the student 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. The student will use reference angles on the unit circle to construct a sine curve. This allows the student to visualize where the graph originates.

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Closing Up the Unit Circle is a Google Form that has two higher-level thinking questions as a quick assessment of learning for the lesson. This form is formatted as a quiz to be used after a lesson on modeling the sine curve and right triangles.

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In this activity, students will watch a short video clip that displays how quickly past viruses have spread and how deadly they are. This will activate students' prior knowledge about rates of growth and provide the context for the simulation activity they will engage in during the next activity.

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This exploration provides students the opportunity to actively engage in creating their own knowledge about exponential models. They are given the support to conduct their own simulation and record the information, make predictions using the data that they have collected, and compare their predictions to the technology generated models. Additionally, the technology element is necessary to make sense of the data in a more efficient manner as compared to hand calculations of procedures. The emphasis is to produce a deep conceptual understanding of rates of change of exponential functions in multiple representations and use that information to build up procedural fluency.

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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.

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In this activity, students will sing along and dance with a video while counting objects in the video between numbers 1 through 10.  

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In this learning activity, students will walk around the room with a partner searching for picture cards of various insects. Once they find one, students will count how many insects are pictured on each card, say the number aloud to their partner, and write that number next to the corresponding picture on their recording sheet. This activity can be used after a lesson on counting objects and writing numerals to check for mastery. 

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Students will practice adding 10 more mentally using the interactive digital game "10 More Attack."

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This activity allows students to practice matching numerals to a set of objects using the game "Train Counting."

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This activity has students practicing matching numerals to sets of objects by using drag and drop on a computer device. Students will match a numeral to the correct object set that represents the numeral. 

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This learning activity will be used to introduce multiplying a vector by a scalar and is intended for an introduction activity. The students will watch the Scalar and Vector video to learn how to multiply a vector by a scalar. This activity will lead to learning how to represent scalar multiplication graphically by scaling vectors and possibly reversing their direction and compute the magnitude of a scalar multiple.

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This learning activity will be used to introduce adding and subtracting vectors and is intended as an introduction or engagement activity. The students will watch the Adding and Subtracting Vectors video to learn how to add and subtract vectors. This activity will lead to learning 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. 

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This learning activity will be used during a lesson on Adding and Subtracting Vectors. Students will explore 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. The teacher will use the Adding and Subtracting Vectors Lesson to cover the “I DO” and “We Do” portions of the lesson.

This activity was created as a result of 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.

This learning activity will be used to find components of a vector and is intended for an assessment activity. The students will complete the Where Is My Arrow Pointing Assessment to demonstrate mastery of how to find the components of a vector by subtracting the coordinates of an initial point from the coordinates of a terminal point. 

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This learning activity will be used during a lesson on Finding the Components of a Vector.  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.  The teacher will use the Where Is My Arrow Pointing Lesson to cover the “I DO” and “We Do” portions of the lesson.

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In this activity, the students will practice matching a picture card, showing a set of objects from 0 to 20, to the corresponding numeral card. 

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At the beginning of a lesson on adding and subtracting polynomials, the students will complete a vocabulary crossword to build their vocabulary content knowledge.

• Adding and Subtracting Polynomials Crossword

• Key: Adding and Subtracting Polynomials Crossword

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This activity is a game about adding and subtracting polynomials.

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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.

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This Google Slide Show activates student thinking about comparing quantities. The slides help students understand the wording for comparing quantities multiplicatively.

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Students will use data from a table to make multiplicative comparison statements of the data. This activity allows multiple practice opportunities.

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This activity is a way to assess students' understanding of multiplicative comparison. In this activity, students must draw a picture, write a multiplicative comparison statement, and write a multiplication equation.

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In this activity, the students will practice one to one correspondence by counting the objects on the picture cards, regardless of their configuration, and practice sequential ordering of numbers 0-20.

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Students will listen to a read-aloud of One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes to activate their thinking about division. Essential questions will help scaffold student prior knowledge.

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Students will work with manipulatives to explore the concept of division and represent concrete models with division equations.

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Students will apply what they know about division by writing their own story problem to match a given equation. This will assess if they can correctly interpret quotients.

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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.

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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.