3-5
Students participate in an activity in which they develop number sense in and around the shopping mall. They develop their skills in determining percents and estimating area.
6-8
The following grades 6-8 activities allow students to explore
statistics surrounding baseball. They are exposed to connections
between various mathematical concepts and see where this mathematics is
used in areas with which they are familiar. This lesson plan is adapted
from the May 1996 edition of
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. 3-5
Students are familiar with sports and sporting events. Whole numbers
and fractions are used to represent the size of groups or collections
and measurements involving lengths, weights, and times in many sporting
and game situations. This knowledge can be used to give the students
another picture of numbers.
Pre-K-2
In this primary grades lesson, students identify figures on a football field. They look for both congruent and similar figures, and they consider figures that are the same but that occur in a different orientation because of translation, rotation, or reflection.
6-8
Students participate in activities in which they focus on connections between mathematics and children's literature. Using
The Phantom Tollbooth as a literature basis, students explore the concept of averages.
3-5
Students measure distances using standard and nonstandard units and record their measurement in various tables. Then use descriptive statistics to report the results. In this lesson, students play a game in which they pitch cards and measure the distances traveled.
6-8, 9-12
Use this
activity to practice how to enter a set of data, plot the data on a coordinate grid, and determine the equation for a line of best fit.
