Subject: Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Skills: Math, Art

Description: Ready to incorporate art in your math lesson? Students will need to solve varies types of equations (select types you are currently practicing) to reveal amounts of specific objects them must include in their own unique spring drawing. (Grades K-5)

Skills: Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table) and explain them using properties of operations Discover, look for and make use ...

Description: Get your 3rd graders up and moving with this interactive, lightly scripted 1 hour math lesson on mathematical patterns.  Grab it and have fun!  Your students will:

• Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table) and explain them using properties of operations
• Identify, look for and make use of structure by finding mathematical patterns
• Generate their own explanation of the patterns
• Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic and link their comments to the remarks of others
• Complete exit slips to provide instructional next steps

CCSS: 3.OA.D.9, MP.7, SL.3.1.C

Skills: Work in collaborative partnerships Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification Practice key math ...

Description: Bring some wacky word problems into your math instruction!  ?  In this engaging, lightly-scripted 60-minute lesson, your students will:

• Work in collaborative partnerships
• Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification
• Practice key math vocabulary
• Solve two-step word problems using the four operations
• Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity
• Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding
• Complete exit slips to provide instructional next steps

CCSS: 3.OA.8

Skills: Pose and respond to specific academic math questions to clarify or follow up on information and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link ...

Description: Focus on the academic language of math and prime numbers with this interactive, engaging lightly scripted 1 hour lesson.  Your 4th graders will:

• Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors.
• Find all factor pairs for a whole number in the range 1-100
• Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1-100 is a multiple of a given one-digit number
• Identify whether a given whole number in the range 1-100 is prime or composite
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.OA.4, MP1, SL.4.1.C

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes Practice finding whole-number quotients of whole numbers ...

Description: Long division can be challenging for our 5th graders...the more opportunities they have to practice with partners and explain their thinking helps build a strong and solid sense of number.  Your students will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes
• Practice finding whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors
• Use strategies based on mental models, equations, rectangular arrays, properties of operations, and/or area models to solve problems
• Demonstrate what they understand of long division using the  standard algorithm
• Complete an "exit ticket" to help drive your next instructional steps

CCSS: 5.NBT.6

Skills: Compare the size of a product to the size of one factor on the basis of the size of the other factor without performing the ...

Description: Have fun teaching, reinforcing or introducing the concept of "scaling" for your 5th graders.  In this lightly-scripted and engaging lesson they will:

• Compare the size of a product to the size of one factor on the basis of the size of the other factor without performing the indicated multiplication
•  Explain why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number (recognizing multiplication by whole numbers greater than 1 as a familiar case)
• Practice sharing how and why multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number
• Relate the principle of fraction equivalence a/b = (n × a)/(n b) to the effect of multiplying a/b by 1
• Complete an "exit ticket" to help drive your next instructional steps

CCSS: 5.NF.5, MP2, MP4, MP8