This creative and engaging approach ensures that more students understand the concepts and computations involved in solving systems of equations. The incremental development of concepts helps students embed a deep understanding through multiple strategies of t-tables, graphs, elimination, and sub...

An understanding of functions is critical to success in upper mathematics and in our adult lives outside of school as well. In "Milk Carton Apartments", students engage in a visual and kinesthetic activity that helps them understand the concept of linear functions. Slope-intercept form emerges na...

Students struggle with fractions, decimals, and percent representations, and mixed numbers and improper fractions make these part/whole representations even more confusing. In "Ruler Fractions", students see connections between and among these various forms and are able to translate from one repr...

Operations with mixed numbers often confuse students who have simply memorized procedures. In this video, you will see how you can create visual models for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division that help students see they why behind the procedures.

Circle graphs, or pie charts, are a common way that data is represented not only in math but in other content areas as well and in our daily lives beyond the classroom. For this reason, it is important that students understand how this graphical representation works. In "Paper Plate Pie Charts", ...

"Math Maps" is the unique and engaging way to help students develop fluency with all number operations and skills while using deep mathematical thinking. As the teacher, you can adjust the skill levels by using the maps and number operations provided or designing your own using the guidelines in ...

In this engaging exporation, students create and play random games as they discover the principles of probability. Woven into the activity, they will encounter fractions, percentages, square, triangular, and pyramidal numbers along with Pascal's triangle and the Fibonacci sequence. The finish by ...

In this creative and rich exploration students young and old can explore patterns that lead them on a journey of discovery. As the teacher, you can decide how far to take them on this pathway from simple number sense into the world of linear functions.

In this simple yet engaging activity students are introduced to the concepts of linear functions. The chirping rate of a cricket has a correlation to the temperature. Students identify the function as linear and find the slope and y-intercept. Links to audio files of crickets are provided. This a...

In this fun and engaging lesson, students try to determine the correct volume of water to maximize success in bottle flipping. This activity can be adapted across a wide grade level span.
Full STEM integration incorporates:
• Science: physics, forces
• Technology: making and/or using spreadsheets...

Students create an artistic and engaging poster illustrating exponential growth. In the process, they not only learn how this nonlinear growth looks, they come to see why a number raised to the zero power is one and why negative exponents are a way to express fractions.