This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about converting dollars and coins into dollars in words.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about the fewest number of coins and bills to equal a given amount.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about converting compound units to feet.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about converting compound units to inches.
Standard 8.NS.1 requires students to "convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number." Despite this choice of wording, the numbers in this task are rational numbers regardless of choice of representation. For example, 0.333 and 1/3 are two different ways of representing the same number.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about converting dollars into cents.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about converting feet to compound units.
This task gives students word problems with a given a set of a specified size and a specified number of subsets. The questions ask the student to find out the size of each of the subsets.
This lesson shows how to write a fraction as a decimal number.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of conversion between cups, pints, quarts and gallons.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about converting gallons and quarts into cups.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of conversion of metric units of weight.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about converting inches to compound units.
This task provides an opportunity to work on the Standard for Mathematical Practice 3 Construct Viable Arguments and Critique the Reasoning of Others.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about converting years into weeks.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about converting years to days.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of comparison of weights (english units).
Students explore the menu genre by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants. They review adjectives and descriptive writing and then work in groups to create their own custom menus.
Students learn about using renewable energy from the Sun for heating and cooking as they build and compare the performance of four solar cooker designs. They explore the concepts of insulation, reflection, absorption, conduction and convection.
Student groups are given a set of materials: cardboard, insulating materials, aluminum foil and Plexiglas, and challenged to build solar ovens. The ovens must collect and store as much of the sun's energy as possible. Students experiment with heat transfer through conduction by how well the oven is insulated and radiation by how well it absorbs solar radiation. They test the effectiveness of their designs qualitatively by baking something and quantitatively by taking periodic temperature measurements and plotting temperature vs. time graphs. To conclude, students think like engineers and analyze the solar oven's strengths and weaknesses compared to conventional ovens.