Number Line Bars - Fractions. ReproActSh6.JPEG (525×688) Conceptua™ Math - Free Fractions Tools. Conceptua Math includes interactive, visual tools that are ideal for teacher-facilitated, whole-class instruction, "Number Talks" and for parents supporting their students at home. These tools, available free of charge, are located under the Tool Library tab in our full curriculum. The full Conceptua Math curriculum includes integrated teacher supports, adaptive teaching, student investigations, and much more. Teachers Build Instructional Expertise with Supports Teachers start with scripted Lesson Openers to introduce concepts and generate fraction Number Talks with the whole class. Lesson Closers help students to summarize their learning. Sample Opener > Students Learn through Guided Lessons The Guided Lessons form the foundation of the program.
Sample Guided Lesson > Students Apply Knowledge through Investigations Real World Investigations provide opportunities for students to use authentic data and apply their mathematical knowledge. Sample Investigation > Explore Lessons. Father’s Day Blueberry Surprise. 6.ns.1 | Search Results. Some of the greats, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson Who had the greatest NBA season of all time? Which player contributed the greatest amount of offensive production to their team? Who was the most valuable? Brian gives weight to… Read more → Bob Olsen, a 5th/6th grade math teacher from Illinois, sent us this great activity.
Read more → In the United States, the summer of 2012 was the warmest summer on record. Read more → Students study a map of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, describe, measure and hypothesize why this route was chosen. Read more → As the football season starts again, Brian introduces students to Fantasy Football. Read more → On Saturday, January 4, 2014, Earth will be as close as it gets to the Sun during its orbit. Read more → In this activity students do a little comparison shopping as they determine which size Goldfish product is the best deal. Read more → It’s 4th down. Read more → There have been a lot of cruise ship mishaps and disasters this year. Legos. Act One: The world record for the tallest structure made of Legos was recently set in Seoul, South Korea.
Check out the pictures and video below: How much do you estimate that it costs for only the materials, to build this tower? What other questions do you have? Act Two: What information do you need Here are some Lego prices from Amazon that you can use to figure this out. As you come to an estimate, make sure that you show your thinking and process so that it is clear to other. Act Three: Possible Solutions Lego.pdf For members we have an editable Word doc and solutions. Lego.doc Lego-solutions.pdf Pictures from Amazon.com, timesofmalta.com, psfk.com, usatoday.com. Passover Macaroons 2012. Passover begins this year on Monday evening, March 25th, with a Passover seder dinner.
Passover is one of the three high holidays in the Jewish religion and celebrates the Exodus of Jews from slavery in Egypt. Let your students review fractions in this investigation on halving and tripling the fractional quantities of ingredients in a Passover macaroon recipe. Choose whether you want students to consider what the general rule might be for increasing or decreasing this recipe by using the more advanced, rule document below. Passover always begins on the 14th day of Nissan on the Hebrew calendar but that day translates to a range of Spring days in the Gregorian calendar.
For an interesting investigation of the Hebrew calendar go here. Working with fractions activity: macaroon-frac.pdf Solutions and editable Word doc for members: macaroon-frac.doc macaroon-frac-solutions.pdf Generalizing a rule activity: macaroons-frac-rule.pdf macaroons-frac-rule.doc macaroons-solutions-frac-rule.pdf. Visual Fractions - A Fraction Tutorial. Who Wants Pizza? Fractions Table of Contents. Highest Common Factor Domino Puzzle. Image via Wikipedia With pupils on the lower end of the attainment spectrum I like to teach calculation of the highest common factor of a pair of numbers by the method of writing out the factors of each number, highlighting the common ones and then choosing the highest.
I find this more successful than teaching them to use prime factorisation. Whilst this has the disadvatange of not being suitable for large numbers, I’ve yet to see a GCSE question that asks for HCF of two numbers that are too large to use the simpler method. To add a nice change from simple ’10 questions’ worksheets I decided to put together the domino puzzle below based on finding HCF for relatively small numbers for one of my year 10 groups.
Click here to download the HCF domino puzzle.