1 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Identify correct number sentence Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 1–4 Professional Commentary: Students must identify the number sentence that describes a situation involving multiplication. They have the option of using a calculator.... 2 All About Multiplication Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: In this 4-lesson unit, students explore several meanings and representations of multiplication (number line, equal sets, arrays, and balanced equations). They also learn about the order property, the results of multiplying by 1 and by 0, and the inverse property of multiplication.... 3 Circle Packing 1: Soda Cans Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Soda cans are often packaged in rectangular arrays, but more efficient arrangements that require less packaging material are possible. In this first lesson (in a unit of three), students investigate various designs for packaging soda cans and use geometry to analyze their designs.... 4 Improving Mathematics Education: Resources for Decision Making Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades K–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The mathematics that students need to learn today is not the same mathematics that their parents and grandparents needed to learn. When today's students become adults, they will face new demands for mathematical proficiency that school mathematics should attempt to anticipate.... Resource Type: Content Supports Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: This site features an interactive pan balance that allows students to place shapes of unknown weights on either side of the balance as they try to determine the relationships among the weights. This activity illustrates a problem with multiple solutions, while it reinforces the notion of equivalence.... 6 Predicting Patterned Behavior Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students complete a triangular array by inserting numbers into the top row and adding pairs of numbers for subsequent rows to achieve a final sum at the bottom. After discovering that the position of a number in the top row affects the final sum, they are challenged to find five different numbers that lead to a... Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of concepts involved in multiplication and division. A student must: make sense of and complete an area model (or array) of objects in rows and columns, understand the size of a single object is its diameter and then determine the number of objects that can be arranged... Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This is an example of a fairly traditional fraction task in a technological setting. Note that the student is asked to show ¾ on a field that is divided into 8 equal parts.... Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This two-part task is visually appealing and accessible to all students, using drag-and-drop technology to connect a rectangular array with multiplication concepts and properties. The task involves mathematical modeling as students move between concrete and symbolic representations (MP.4) and mathematical structure as they use the Distributive Property to decompose multiplication equations and decompose area models into... 10 Diminishing Return: Problem of the Month Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: The Problems of the Month (POM) are designed to be used school wide to promote a problem-solving theme at your school. Each problem is divided into six levels of related problems, starting with the Primary Level and followed by Levels A through E.... |