Plan Christmas Vacation
A variety of math and planning skills can be used to plan a holiday vacation.
Buying Groceries
Wish you had a dollar for every time you heard “But we’ll NEVER use this when we grow up”? Using the newspaper grocery ads inserts, “give” your students $100 to spend.
Order Out!
The student will apply multiplication, planning and calculator skills by pretending to order take out food.
Place Value Made Fun
Obviously, place value is an important skill in number manipulation, say, for counting money. These following games and exercises can help you reinforce place value skills in a fun way.
293 Ways: Change for a Dollar
Did you know there are 293 different ways to make change for a dollar?
This is a fun (if somewhat time consuming) exercise for counting money. Have your students try to list all 293 coin combinations. This list will come in handy when checking papers.
Approximately How Difficult?
Being able to figure the distance from point A to point B is a task many people take for granted (or in some cases, can’t do very accurately). Everyday, people estimate how much their grocery bill is going to be at the supermarket or how long it will take to complete a list of errands. Getting your students to work on such skills now, means they will get better and better at it as time goes on.
Pi: Circles in Geometry
Grade school geometry doesn’t have to get into a detailed lesson on Pi to communicate the basics of this constant.
Millenium Mix-up?
A discussion on the T2T mailing list recently prompted the comment, “I hate to get technical, but the new millennium doesn’t actually begin until the year 2001…” Other members quickly responded, not understanding why the new millennium won’t begin on January 1, 2000. We felt that we should clarify.
Maps: Take a Road Trip
In this lesson, students will incorporate map reading, math, library research skills and writing.
Line Graphs of Weather Forecasts
The student will be able to interpret data; make and read a line graph, understand plotting points on an X-Y axis, and round numbers.
The Ten Commandments of Math: Mathematician’s Version
There really are two versions of this one, folks! So we’ll call this one the “mathematician’s version” and the other one the “classroom version”. So >>>
The Ten Commandments of Math: Classroom Version
There really are two versions of this one, folks! So we’ll call this one the “classroom version” and the other one the “mathematician’s version“. So >>>
Math = Art
A different approach to introduce your elementary students to multiplication is to combine it with art.
Newspaper Activity for Math
Have students look through the newspaper classified ads for 5 to 10 numbers (depending on grade level) between 1,000 and 25,000. Put them in order >>>
Keeping Math Problems Straight
Graph paper solves a simple alignment issue.