681 Mathematics and Football: Get the Picture--Get the Story Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–5 Professional Commentary: In this second of five lessons related to football, students look at four pictures and make up one or more story problems to go with each picture. Classmates share and compare the problems they have made up.... 682 Mathematics and Football: Super Bowl Scores Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In this third of five lessons related to football, students look for different combinations of points that could be scored in a football game to result in specified scores. ORC notes that the overview of this multi-lesson site does not match the content of the site.... 683 Pizza, Pizza!: Pizza-Topping Combinations Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–5 Professional Commentary: In this third of three lessons related to pizza, students use cutouts to determine how many different combinations of two toppings there are from among four possible toppings. Activity sheets and Internet extensions are included.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–3 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to find all the 3-digit house numbers that satisfy specified criteria. Careful reading of information and understanding of mathematical language are important to finding appropriate solutions.... 685 Building with Triangles: What Can You Build With Two Triangles? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this first of four lessons related to triangles, students use multiple cutouts of triangles to form and name other geometric shapes. An activity sheet, solutions, and problem extensions are included.... 686 Building with Triangles: How Do You Build Triangles? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: In this second of four lessons related to triangles, students use pattern block cutouts to form triangles in a variety of ways. An activity sheet, solutions, and problem extensions are included.... 687 Building with Triangles: What's Important About Triangles? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: In this third of four lessons related to triangles, students use strips of paper divided into three segments of various lengths to see which strips can form triangles. The goal is for students to discover the triangle inequality, namely, that the sum of the lengths of any two sides must exceed the length of the other side.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–4 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students collect and enter data on activity sheets, which are then cut apart so the data can be sorted and analyzed in cooperative working groups. The activity sheet used for data collection and problem extensions involving data display are included.... 689 Heights of Students in Our Class Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students collect data on individuals' heights and enter the data on an activity sheet. Students are lead through a step-by-step process to create a box-and-whiskers plot of the data. The activity sheet and problem extensions involving stem-and-leaf plots and calculating mean, median, and mode are included.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students collect and enter numerical and categorical data on activity sheets, compute means of the numerical data, and decide how to display appropriately the numerical versus categorical data. The activity sheet and problem extensions are included.... |