This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to understand what the different algebraic forms of a quadratic function reveal about the properties of its graphical representation. In particular, the lesson will help teachers identify and help students who have the following difficulties: understanding how the factored form of the function can identify a graphŐs roots; understanding how the completed square form of the function can identify a graphŐs maximum or minimum point; and understanding how the standard form of the function can identify a graphŐs intercept.

In this measurement lesson plan students use their estimation and reasoning skills to develop benchmarks for an ounce and a pound. Students test the accuracy of their estimates using a scale and give themselves a score based on how close they came to the desired weight (an ounce or a pound). This lesson plan includes a student data collection worksheet (PDF).

Using this tool, students build these classic fractals: the Koch snowflake, a fractal tree, a reduced square, and the Sierpinksi triangle. As these shapes grow and change using an iterative process, students can observe patterns in the images created and in the table of values as the fractals progress through several stages.

In this lesson plan students use fraction bars to explore and compare the sizes of fractions. The lesson includes an activity sheet, answer key, guiding questions and prompts, assessment options and extensions, and a link to Fraction Feud, an interactive game (cataloged separately and listed as a related resource).

This applet allows students to individually practice working with relationships among fractions and ways of combining fractions. It is an online, one person game, with immediate feedback on incorrect moves. All instructions for this fun visual game are included and illustrated.

Explore different representations for fractions. This applet allows students to create a fraction,then see it as a visual model, and as percent and decimal equivalents. They can choose the model to be a circle, a rectangle, or a set model. Intended for the young learner, this version restricts the numerator to values from 0 to 20, and the denominator to benchmark values of 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 20.

This lesson fosters a student's conceptual fraction sense with proper fractions, improper fractions, and mixed numbers by placing thirty fraction cards in order between given whole numbers on a number line clothesline. Users will visually identify that all proper fractions are grouped between zero and one, and that improper fractions or mixed numbers are all grouped above one. Users also play an estimation game with groups using the same principle. Instructional plan, questions for the students, assessment options, extensions, and teacher reflections are given.

This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: articulate verbally the relationships between variables arising in everyday contexts; translate between everyday situations and sketch graphs of relationships between variables; interpret algebraic functions in terms of the contexts in which they arise; and reflect on the domains of everyday functions and in particular whether they should be discrete or continuous.

In this five lesson unit with overview from Illuminations, student activities explore relationships among fractions through work with the length model. Students construct fraction strips and use fraction bars throughout the unit to make sense of basic fraction concepts, to compare fractions and order fractions and to work with equivalency in fractions. Specific learning objectives, a material list, an instructional plan, questions for the students, assessment options, extensions, and teacher reflections are given for each lesson.

This unit from Illuminations consists of five lessons designed to help students understand fractions when they are represented as a part of a region. Learners investigate relationships between parts and wholes, the relative value of the fraction based on the pattern block shape and equivalency while working with physical and/or virtual pattern blocks. Instructional plan, questions for the students, assessment options, extensions, and teacher reflections are given for each lesson.

This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to use geometric properties to solve problems. In particular, the lesson will help you identify and help students who have the following difficulties: solving problems by determining the lengths of the sides in right triangles; and finding the measurements of shapes by decomposing complex shapes into simpler ones. The lesson unit will also help students to recognize that there may be different approaches to geometrical problems, and to understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of those approaches.

In this Illumination activity, students act as reporters at the Super Bowl. Students study four pictures of things that they would typically find at a football game: players, a scoreboard, a crowd, and a concession stand. Students are asked to create problem situations that correspond to their interpretation of each of the pictures. The lesson includes a student worksheet and extension questions.

This interactive lesson encourages young students to solve problems by estimating angles and distances. They use an applet to give LOGO-like commands, e.g. forward (length), turn (right or left) to make a path that moves a turtle to a pond. Students can create a Path 1 and Path 2 and try to minimize the total path length. There is a newer applet (Turtle Pond, cataloged separately) that allows for adding or editing the commands and a choice of right angles only, or angles in multiples of 15 degrees. The lesson provides suggestions for implementation and discussion questions.

This google slide show will be used by first grade teachers with their students as a numeracy routine. Students will use a google slide presentation to subitize, compose, and decompose numbers presented as quick dot images.

This google slide show will be used by grade 1 teachers with their students as a numeracy routine. Students should be given time to notice and wonder about each slide. Focus is on composing and decomposing numbers as well as discussion of addition and subtraction strategies. Steve Wyborney is the original creator.

This google slide show will be used by grade 1 teachers with their students as a numeracy routine. Students should be given time to notice and wonder about each slide. Focus is on composing and decomposing numbers as well as discussion of addition and subtraction strategies. Steve Wyborney is the original creator.

This google slide show is a collection of slides for use in grade 1 as a routine for learning to tell time and exploring time-related concepts. The focus is on discussing the measurement of time.

This google slide presentation describes a numeracy routine for grade 2 use during the second quarter. The routine involves sequencing various representations of numbers on a clothesline. Printable materials are included.

This google slide presentation describes a numeracy routine for grade 2 use during the third quarter. The routine involves sequencing various representations of numbers on a clothesline. Printable materials are included.

This google slide show will be used by second grade teachers with their students as a numeracy routine. Directions for the teacher are found here. For quarter one, students will estimate using physical objects in a jar. Students should be given time to notice and wonder about each jar of items.