Pre-K-2
In the following lesson, students participate in activities in which they focus on connections between mathematics and children's literature. Specifically, students use clues to sort and classify buttons.
Pre-K-2
Students read the poem "Shapes" from
A Light in the Attic, by
Shel Silverstein, and create their own illustration of the poem. In
this lesson, students explore geometric figures and positional words.
Pre-K-2
In this lesson, students read the book
How Big Is a Foot?, by
Rolf Myller. They then create non-standard units (using their own
footprints) and use them to make "beds." As a result, students explore
the need for a standard unit of measure.
Pre-K-2
This lesson focuses on forming 3-digit house numbers to meet specific requirements. Careful reading of information and understanding of mathematical language are important to finding appropriate solutions. Using the problem-solving strategies of looking for patterns and establishing an organized list will aid students in finding all the possible solution sets.
3-5
Students begin their study of growing patterns by making linear
patterns with pattern block shapes using several pattern cores. They
extend a partner’s pattern and find the missing element in a pattern.
3-5
In this final lesson of the Unit, students use logical thinking to create, identify, extend, and translate patterns. They make patterns with numbers and shapes and explore patterns in a variety of mathematical contexts.
3-5
Students analyze numeric patterns, including Fibonacci numbers. They also
describe numeric patterns and then record them in table form.
3-5
During this lesson, student use mathematical knowledge and skills developed in the previous lessons to demonstrate understanding and ability to apply that knowledge in a real-life context. As students tackle more complex tasks, teachers have opportunity to observe student’s competence with methods and tools for computation, estimation, problem posing and solving, collection of data, organization and interpretation of graphical representations, measuring with standard units, and responding to investigations that require the comparison of data sets.
Pre-K-2
Problems such as those in this activity help develop what students already know in preparation for writing equations and learning ways to solve for variables. Students use mathematical models to explore quantitative relationships. When presented with pictures of pan balances with one or more objects in each pan, they communicate relationships between the weights of the objects by comparing the balanced and unbalanced pans.
9-12
As you review student work in this unit, it is important to remember
the mathematical objectives/expectations of this Unit Plan that are
stated in
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
