The purpose of this task is to have students add mixed numbers with like denominators. This task illustrates the different kinds of solution approaches students might take to such a task.
This activity can be played by pairs of students to support writing numbers.
In this number tracing activity students create a rainbow number line. This can be a colorful tool with a personal connection to the student that may be used as a reference. It can serve as a visual and motor reminder when reading and writing numbers because the student went through the tracing motion.
This task helps students understand that when you multiply by a number you always get a bigger number.
This task is written so that students have opportunities to use different strategies to determine whether a set has an even or odd number of objects.
This task serves as a bridge between understanding place-value and using strategies based on place-value structure for addition.
This task presents students with some creative geometric ways to represent the fraction one half. The goal is both to appeal to students' visual intuition while also providing a hands on activity to decide whether or not two areas are equal.
This task provides a context for indentifying different ways of representing half of a rectangle.
Students practice rounding whole numbers with this task.
The purpose of this task is for students to compare two fractions that arise in a context. Because the fractions are equal, students need to be able to explain how they know that.
This word problem asks students to think about fractions.
This task involves fraction multiplication and can be solved with pictures or number lines.
The purpose of this task is to have students add fractions with unlike denominators and divide a unit fraction by a whole number.
In this challenging instructional task students relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money.
This word problem may be used for instructional or assessment purposes, depending on where students are in their understanding of addition and how the teacher supports them.
The purpose of this task is to help students see that 4_(9+2) is four times as big as (9+2). Though this task may seem very simple, it provides students and teachers with a very useful visual for interpreting an expression without evaluating it.
The purpose of this task is for students to select 2 numbers from a set that sum to 5 (or any other number).
In this scavenger hunt game students practice copying shapes.
In this scavenger hunt games students are given the task of finding and identifying real-world shapes in their environment.
In this "word search" style puzzle students practice identifying sequences of shapes.