This data analysis activity requires students to read and interpret six written or graphical representations of data. Students must determine which graphs and analysis belong together. The data representations used include a pictograph, a circle graph, a frequency chart, a bar graph, and two written analyses including the terms mode, median, and mean for each data set. Included with the activity are teacher's notes, a hint, and the solution.

This lesson uses iMovie and Pages to solidify student understanding of math problem-solving. It is tied to problem solve at a 2nd-grade level or higher for kids with learning deficits, specifically designed to help students who have IEP goals related to math word problems and solving math problems related to the four basic arithmetic operation.

The purpose of the task is for students to solve a multi-step multiplication problem in a context that involves area. In addition, the numbers were chosen to determine if students have a common misconception related to multiplication.

In this task students are asked to write two expressions from verbal descriptions and determine if they are equivalent. The expressions involve both percent and fractions. This task is most appropriate for a classroom discussion since the statement of the problem has some ambiguity.

This task presents a straight forward question that can be solved using an equation in one variable. The numbers are complicated enough so that it is natural to set up an equation rather than solve the problem in one's head.

Students will go through the writing process to create a video that shows a multistep word problem.

This website has thousands of free mathematics enrichment materials for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. All the resources are designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving, and mathematical thinking skills. The website is updated with new material on the first day of every month with fifteen problems and a number of games, articles and other resources. All are tagged with curriculum content links and challenge levels. Past issues, as far back as November 1999, can be accessed by a link on the home page.

This problem provides an opportunity for students to practice counting and to represent and record findings in different ways: "Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?" Multiple solution possibilities encourage students to be systematic in their strategies. The Teachers' Notes page offers suggestions for implementation, discussion questions, and an idea for extension.

This activity helps children become more familiar with horizontal and vertical number lines (0 through 10) and how to use them for addition. It can be used to introduce subtraction as the inverse of addition and the use of an unknown number. The Teachers' Notes page offers rationale, suggestions for implementation, discussion questions, ideas for extension and support, printable number lines (pdf), and a link to a related game, Incey Wincey Spider (catalogued separately).

This problem, based on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, provides a context for children to apply ratio and proportion concepts as well as fraction computation skills. Using the given size relationships among the bears, solvers determine the sizes of various objects in the bears' house. The Teachers' Notes page offers suggestions for implementation, key questions, ideas for extension and support, a printable pdf of the problem, and links to related problems.

In this problem learners explore square numbers and the relationships between them while practicing basic number skills. By applying a systematic strategy they determine three numbers that satisfy the conditions of the scenario. There are links to hints and a solution page; Teachers' Resources include suggestions for implementation, reflection, and differentiation.

This problem provides an opportunity for students to reason about ratio and proportion in the realistic context of mixing a fruit drink from concentrate. The Teachers' Notes page offers suggestions for implementation, discussion questions, ideas for extension and support, and links to related problems (Blackcurrantiest is cataloged separately).

The purpose of this task is to provide students an opportunity to use mathematics addressed in different standards in the same problem.

The point of this task is to emphasize the grouping structure of the base-ten number system, and in particular the crucial fact that 10 tens make 1 hundred.

This task provides a context where it is appropriate for students to subtract fractions with a common denominator; it could be used for either assessment or instructional purposes.

This word problem requires students to use addition and subtraction and think about money.

The purpose of this task is to have students add mixed numbers with like denominators. This task illustrates the different kinds of solution approaches students might take to such a task.