Which side will win as students investigate both sides of the battle of using print versus online text for research as they learn about the lives of Civil War soldiers?
This task gives students an opportunity to work with exponential functions in a real world context involving continuously compounded interest. They will study how the base of the exponential function impacts its growth rate and use logarithms to solve exponential equations.
Students discuss and compare differing versions of Little Red Riding Hood and other tales about wolves in cumulative read-aloud sessions and text set explorations.
The purpose of this task is for students to compare fractions using common numerators and common denominators and to recognize equivalent fractions.
This task is meant to address a common error that students make, namely, that they represent fractions with different wholes when they need to compare them. This task is meant to generate classroom discussion related to comparing fractions. Particularly important is that students understand that when you compare fractions, you implicitly always have the same whole.
This task is appropriate for assessing student's understanding of differences of signed numbers. Because the task asks how many degrees the temperature drops, it is correct to say that "the temperature drops 61.5 degrees." However, some might think that the answer should be that the temperature is "changing -61.5" degrees. Having students write the answer in sentence form will allow teachers to interpret their response in a way that a purely numerical response would not.
The purpose of this task is to foster a classroom discussion that will highlight the difference between multiplicative and additive reasoning.
The purpose of this task is to assess studentsŐ understanding of multiplicative and additive reasoning.
The foundation of this lesson is constructing, communicating, and evaluating student-generated tables while making comparisons between three different financial plans. Students are given three different DVD rental plans and asked to analyze each one to see if they could determine when the 3 different DVD plans cost the same amount of money, if ever. (7th/8th Grade Math)
These word problems involve multiplicative comparison.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about comparing pints and quarts by pictures.
This is an activity about identifying images of different space bodies and determining the cause of the craters pictured in each. Learners will use the Solar System Update software within Space Update to complete a worksheet. This is Solar System Activity 4 in Space Update.
In this lesson, students analyze similarities and differences among depictions of slavery in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Frederick Douglass' "Narrative", and nineteenth century photographs of slaves. Students formulate their analysis of the role of art and fiction, as they attempt to reliably reflect social ills, in a final essay.
The purpose of this task is to generate a classroom discussion that helps students synthesize what they have learned about multiplication in previous grades.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about comparing quarts and pints by formula.
This task can be used to either build or assess initial understandings related to rational approximations of irrational numbers.
Students must calculate the volume of a cone in this real world task.
This task provides the opportunity for students to reason about graphs, slopes, and rates without having a scale on the axes or an equation to represent the graphs. Students who prefer to work with specific numbers can write in scales on the axes to help them get started.
The purpose of this task is to help develop students' understanding of addition of fractions; it is intended as an instructional task.
The purpose of the task is for students to compare signed numbers in a real-world context.