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STEM Lessons - Model Eliciting Activity
The students will compare different nutritional content of chicken nuggets from many restaurants. They will factor in the calories, the total fat, saturated fat, and sodium levels in the nuggets to rank the nuggets from healthiest to least healthy.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.
Kites for Education is a Modeling Eliciting Activity which presents students with an engineering challenge in which they must analyze data sets and develop a procedure for ranking different kite models. The product ranked as best by the students will hypothetically be sold to customers and the profit used to purchase school textbooks and supplies for school age children impacted by Haiti's devastating earthquake.
MFAS Formative Assessments
Students are asked to complete addition and subtraction problems that can be done more easily by using properties.
Students add four two-digit numbers without the context of a word problem.
Students are asked to add four two digit numbers using place value.
Students are asked to add four two digit numbers by considering how another student added "friendly" numbers first.
Students are asked to solve two addition problems using the standard algorithm.
Students are asked to add four different pairs of numbers (within 1000) using strategies of their own choosing.
Students are asked to complete subtraction problems using the standard algorithm.
Students are asked to find the error in a partially completed subtraction problem using the standard algorithm and to solve the problem correctly.
Students are asked to solve two subtraction problems using the standard algorithm.
Students are asked to complete four subtraction problems (within 1000) using strategies of their own choosing.
The student is encouraged to use compensation to efficiently add multi-digit numbers.
Original Student Tutorials Mathematics - Grades K-5
Learn to add multi-digit numbers using a standard algorithm in this interactive tutorial.
Help Speedy Sam add and subtract as quickly as possible by using the properties of addition and subtraction in this interactive tutorial.
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Original Student Tutorials
Learn to add multi-digit numbers using a standard algorithm in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Help Speedy Sam add and subtract as quickly as possible by using the properties of addition and subtraction in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Educational Games
This fun and interactive game helps practice estimation skills, using various operations of choice, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, using decimals, fractions, and percents.
Various levels of difficulty make this game appropriate for multiple age and ability levels.
Addition/Subtraction: The addition and subtraction of whole numbers, the addition and subtraction of decimals.
Multiplication/Division: The multiplication and addition of whole numbers.
Percentages: Identify the percentage of a whole number.
Fractions: Multiply and divide a whole number by a fraction, as well as apply properties of operations.
Type: Educational Game
In this activity, students are quizzed on their ability to estimate sums, products, and percentages. The student can adjust the difficulty of the problems and how close they have to be to the actual answer. This activity allows students to practice estimating addition, multiplication, or percentages of large numbers. This activity includes supplemental materials, including background information about the topics covered, a description of how to use the application, and exploration questions for use with the java applet.
Type: Educational Game
Educational Software / Tool
In this activity, students solve arithmetic problems involving whole numbers, integers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This activity allows students to track their progress in learning how to perform arithmetic on whole numbers and integers. This activity includes supplemental materials, including background information about the topics covered, a description of how to use the application, and exploration questions for use with the java applet.
Type: Educational Software / Tool
Problem-Solving Task
This task presents an incomplete problem and asks students to choose numbers to subtract (subtrahends) so that the resulting problem requires different types of regrouping. This way students have to recognize the pattern and not just follow a memorized algorithm--in other words, they have to think about what happens in the subtraction process when we regroup. This task is appropriate to use after students have learned the standard US algorithm.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Tutorials
In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, learn how to subtract in situations that require regrouping twice using the expanded forms of numbers, as well as the standard algorithm.
Type: Tutorial
In this Khan Academy video tutorial, consider an alternate algorithm for subtracting multi-digit numbers mentally. This video is best for students that are already comfortable with using regrouping to subtract using the standard algorithm.
Type: Tutorial
Parent Resources
Problem-Solving Task
This task presents an incomplete problem and asks students to choose numbers to subtract (subtrahends) so that the resulting problem requires different types of regrouping. This way students have to recognize the pattern and not just follow a memorized algorithm--in other words, they have to think about what happens in the subtraction process when we regroup. This task is appropriate to use after students have learned the standard US algorithm.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Tutorials
In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, learn how to subtract in situations that require regrouping twice using the expanded forms of numbers, as well as the standard algorithm.
Type: Tutorial
In this Khan Academy video tutorial, consider an alternate algorithm for subtracting multi-digit numbers mentally. This video is best for students that are already comfortable with using regrouping to subtract using the standard algorithm.
Type: Tutorial