In this lesson, students use their knowledge of the four operations with decimals in order to plan a dinner for themselves and four friends with a given restaurant menu. Students must stay within a budget of $65 the amount of the gift certificate.
This Olympic Math activity can be used with any set of olympic results in the men's 100m race, the men's 100m Butterfly, and the women's gymnastics finals. The activity can be remixed to be more relevant to the most current, and most discussed, Olympics events.
In this lesson, students will use their knowledge of decimals to plan a lunch for under $5.00
Students will apply their knowledge of addition and subtraction of decimals to a real world problem of buying pizza for a group of people.
Purpose: Engages students and introduces elements needed for building a playground.
In “Playground Palooza”, students will take the role of a playground designer responding to a request for a new playground at the school. Students will learn about numerical patterns, reading and writing decimals, rounding decimals, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, converting measurements, volume, measuring volume, relating volume, coordinate planes, and attributes of 2D figures. Students will determine the total area of the new playground, determine the total area for each structure you want included on your playground, determine the volume of sand needed for the sandbox, use at least three playground structures, create a table of equipment and materials including company name, cost, quantity, and totals, create a coordinate system to display the center point for each structures or area on the playground, and submit a blueprint of their playground design.
***NOTE
This PBL was created before NC adopted the NC standards for Math. Therefore this PBL also addresses: rounding decimals.
This K-5 resource, provides different types of problem solving strategies for students to use when solving problems.
Uncountable times every day with the merest flick of a finger each one of us calls on electricity to do our bidding. What would your life be like without electricity? Students begin learning about electricity with an introduction to the most basic unit in ordinary matter, the atom. Once the components of an atom are addressed and understood, students move into the world of electricity. First, they explore static electricity, followed by basic current electricity concepts such as voltage, resistance and open/closed circuits. Next, they learn about that wonderful can full of chemicals the battery. Students may get a "charge" as they discover the difference between a conductor and an insulator. The unit concludes with lessons investigating simple circuits arranged "in series" and "in parallel," including the benefits and unique features associated with each. Through numerous hands-on activities, students move cereal and foam using charged combs, use balloons to explore electricity and charge polarization, build and use electroscopes to evaluate objects' charge intensities, construct simple switches using various materials in circuits that light bulbs, build and use simple conductivity testers to evaluate materials and solutions, build and experiment with simple series and parallel circuits, design and build their own series circuit flashlight, and draw circuits using symbols.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Math.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Math.
Students roll dice in order to create decimal numbers and then round the created number to the nearest tenth.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of rounding decimal numbers.
Students round decimals using a number line to determine the nearest tenth.
While the bulk of this task is determining the value of an unknown number based on its position on a number line and rounding, students will have to consider that one tenth of .1 is .01. This aspect of the task can transform the discussion of rounding (which is often brief and methodical) to a rich mathematical discourse that considers the foundational ideas at the heart of the topic.
In this lesson, students explain why money is important, describe different ways to save money, and create a budget.
Students multiply by 10s, 100s, 1000s and other multiples of 10.
In this lesson, students establish short-term and long-term savings goals.
Students will explore street maps, measure distance, and calculate travel times as they direct their school bus to the zoo.
In this online interactice, students practice rounding decimals to the nearest whole number. A step by step interactive tutorial assists students with problem solving. After the interactive tutorial, students can test their knowledge by taking a quiz.
Students solve problems that involve subtracting decimals.
This activity requires students to design a set of kickball fields to accommodate 153 players in a summer league, determine the number of teams, create a schedule that allows each team to play each other team once, create umpire schedules, determine the number of kickballs needed, choose the company from which tee shirts should be purchased, and then determine if the boys charged an appropriate registration fee based on their findings. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.