This lesson is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. Students organize a set of data about their favorite weekend activities and create a representation to display the data. This lesson allows the teacher to assess students’ prior understandings of graphical representations and introduce mathematical practice #4 – Model with mathematics. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools 4 NC Teachers and is intended to be taught towards the beginning of the cluster. This lesson focuses on developing a mathematical community at the beginning of the school year. Students collect data and make a scaled bar graph, which they worked with in third grade. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. This lesson allows students to pose a question that yields numerical data, collect the data, and then represent the data on a line plot or bar graph. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students will represent and solve two-step word problems involving addition and multiplication with whole numbers. Students will distinguish multiplicative comparison from additive comparison when solving a problem about biking. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students explore how to draw models such as tape diagrams in order to solve multiplicative comparison problems. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students consider the relationship between area and perimeter by trying to decide whether a shape can have a perimeter and area that are numerically the same.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. Students explore factors, multiples, and the concepts of prime and composite. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students will be introduced to Polya’s four-step problem-solving process to solve word problems. This is remixable.

In this lesson, students apply their knowledge of multiplication to solve multiplicative comparison problems.

This is Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students develop a deeper understanding of perimeter by solving and discussing perimeter problems involving rectangles with missing sides.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. Students explore factors, multiples, and the concepts of prime and composite. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students develop a deeper understanding of perimeter by solving and discussing perimeter problems involving rectangles with missing sides. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students will design a dog pen using grid paper and square tiles to develop concepts about fixed perimeter and varying areas. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. Students complete a series of activities related to area and perimeter. It can be used at the start of Clusters 2 or 4. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students design four flower beds and explore various strategies for finding the areas and perimeters of rectilinear figures. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. Students explore characteristics of animals while gaining practice with comparing and reasoning multiplicatively through measurement.

The Tools for NC Teachers lesson provides a context for students to explore factors and multiples. This is remixable.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students create arrays using square tiles and grid paper in order to determine the factors of numbers 1-25. The lesson will introduce students to the vocabulary of factor, multiple, prime, and composite.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this lesson, students will learn about the three types of multiplicative comparison problems and use tape diagrams/bar models to understand how to solve the problems.

This lesson is from Tools for NC Teachers. In this area and perimeter investigation, students will solve multi-step multiplicative comparison word problems. This lesson combines three of the four standards covered in Cluster 2. This is remixable.