In this number line task students must treat the interval from 0 to 1 as a whole, partition the whole into the appropriate number of equal sized parts, and then locate the fraction(s).
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about multiple rounds of division - long division word problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about dividing 3 and 4 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about dividing 3 and 4 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers.
The purpose of this task is for students to compare two options for a prize where the value of one is given $2 at a time, giving them an opportunity to "work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication." This context also provides students with an introduction to the concept of delayed gratification, or resisting an immediate reward and waiting for a later reward, while working with money.
This task is for students who know how to use base 10 blocks.
This task is a straightforward task related to adding fractions with the same denominator. The main purpose is to emphasize that there are many ways to decompose a fraction as a sum of fractions, similar to decompositions of whole numbers that students should have seen in earlier grades.
This tasks lends itself very well to multiple solution methods. Students may learn a lot by comparing different methods. Students who are already comfortable with fraction multiplication can go straight to the numeric solutions given below. Students who are still unsure of the meanings of these operations can draw pictures or diagrams.
The purpose of this instructional task is to motivate a discussion about adding fractions and the meaning of the common denominator. The different parts of the task have students moving back and forth between the abstract representation of the fractions and the meaning of the fractions in the context.
This task requires students to study the make-a-ten strategy that they should already know and use intuitively. In this strategy, knowledge of which sums make a ten, together with some of the properties of addition and subtraction, are used to evaluate sums which are larger than 10.
Making a 10 provides a technique to help students master single digit addition. The task is designed to help students visualize where the 10's are on a single digit addition table and explain why this is so. This knowledge can then be used to help them learn the addition table.
This task provides three types of comparison problems: Those with an unknown difference and two known numbers; those with a known difference and a bigger unknown number; and those with a known difference and smaller unknown number. Students may solve each type using addition or subtraction, although the language in specific problems tends to favor one approach over another.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about matching the time to the clock.
The purpose of the task is for students to solve a multi-step multiplication problem in a context that involves area. In addition, the numbers were chosen to determine if students have a common misconception related to multiplication.
Students work in pairs to measure blocks and answer word problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about converting centimeters to millimeters with decimals.
The purpose of this task is to help students realize there are different ways to add mixed numbers and is most appropriate for use in an instructional setting.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about multiplying and dividing decimals - word problems.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about mixed problems in fractions.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about mixed review (numbers up to 100,000).