Students are asked to analyze a new method or “trick” for multi-digit multiplication. The method is based on a combination of decomposing numbers, functions, and the distributive property of multiplication over addition (in which the standard algorithm is based). 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.

Students are asked to analyze a new method or “trick” for multi-digit multiplication. The method is based on a combination of decomposing numbers, functions, and the distributive property of multiplication over addition (in which the standard algorithm is based). 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.

This task uses music notes to develop a deeper understanding of composing and decomposing fractions.  Students will discover that music notes actually represent fractional parts of measures of music.  Students will apply this understanding to create their own music arrangements, using mathematics to support the accuracy of their creations.  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.

This lesson is to be used when students are working with evaluating expressions using whole number exponents. 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.

In this task, students will apply their knowledge of polygons and their properties to create “New-Fangled Tangram” puzzles.  Students will need to pull from their understanding that polygons may have shared attributes, utilize visual-spatial skills, and employ a variety of problem solving strategies. Additionally, students will need to prove that their puzzles were designed correctly by using a variety of tools and apply fourth grade knowledge of polygons.  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.

The students in this activity will work on creating the numbers 1-100, by ones, twos, fives and tens. 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.

Due to a lack of place value understanding, a real estate agent has difficulty calculating prices and comparing lot sizes and costs.  Students are asked to help the struggling agent rectify his mathematical understandings.  Students must generate an online lesson that addresses the real estate agent’s difficulties and teaches a variety of problem solving strategies.  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.

After you have pre-assessed your students on one-to-one matching and number formation and they have mastered the concept, this lesson will provide an opportunity for students to create a counting book that reflects their understanding of counting using the numbers 1-30. It will involve working in small groups and will involve planning in a group for an end product.  Students’ work will be assessed using a rubric. 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.

In this activity, students are given the task of planning a birthday party for six guests with a budget of $100.  Through the party planning process, students will further develop their understanding of estimating appropriately in a real-life situation.  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.

This lesson is to be used during the probability unit. 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.

In this activity, students will build on their understanding of finding areas of rectilinear figures in a real world context.  This activity is appropriate for students who demonstrate a mastery of determining the area of rectangular figures as well as relating area to the operations of multiplication and division.  The students will solve a problem involving unknown side lengths in a rectilinear figure. 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. 

Students will recognize the utility of mathematics in art.  They will apply Leonardo Da Vinci’s rules of proportion for the human body and will use these rules to compose self-portraits.  In order to determine the measurements of specific body parts, students will use multiple strategies, such as multiplying whole numbers by fractional parts.  This activity also allows students to make conversions between measurements, connections between linear measurement and fractions, and see the relationship between multiplication of a fraction and division by a whole number.  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.

Students will create their own symbols to represent ones, tens, and hundreds and will create pictures to represent a number. 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.

This is a problem solving worksheet based on helping the environment by planting trees.  The problem involves the real-world task of choosing different trees to plant based on cost. Students use strategies to add two digit numbers. 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.

This task focuses around the question, “Is there a relationship between the typical size of a cell phone and the typical size of a person’s pocket?”  Students will collect, organize, and interpret measurement data in order to make their hypotheses.  In addition to application of measurement and graphing skills, students will be required to round, make estimations, convert between decimals and fractions, and use the four operations to solve problems.  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.

Students will determine which distributor (of a small company that produces wooden children’s puzzles) they should purchase their materials from. Students will use their understanding of fractions in order to determine the number of given lengths of wood that can be extracted from the sizes of dowel rods and boards that the distributors offer. 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.

This is a problem-solving task focused on recycling.  The number range is multiples of 10 from 100 – 190. Students solve word problems and write a word problem. Extra questions about recycling are included. 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.

Students will create and solve word problems using a rock collector theme. 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.

Students will create oral word problems with three addends and will solve them using different methods. 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.

Students will apply their understanding of division of whole numbers by unit fractions, in context, to the division of whole numbers by non-unit fractions. Students will consider the steps of the standard algorithm of division of fractions as they relate to solving the contextualized problems in this task. 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.