81 Chances Are - Part 1 - Talking Probability Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students focus on the language of probability as they use their life experiences to recall events that are certain, impossible, likely, and unlikely to happen. These events are recorded through the use of graphic organizers that relate to a current unit of study.... 82 Chances Are - Part 2 - It's a Mystery to Me Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students identify the likelihood of an event based on a set of data from mystery spinners. Students extend their understanding of basic probability as they learn to name all of the possible outcomes of an event, as well as ways to express the likelihood of such an event occurring.... 83 Chances Are - Part 3 - OH NO! Look Out Below for a UFO Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: Students predict and simulate the likelihood of an event in a variety of situations. Students are introduced to the idea of using simulation to explore and express the probability of an event occurring.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students estimate and measure in the metric system through a variety of lab experiences. Students review the importance and use of standard units of measure.... 85 Looking Through the Algebraic Lens, Grades 3-5 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–7 Professional Commentary: This lesson has two parts, both of which foster algebraic thinking across content strands. Part I, from the number and operations strand, has students explore the addition and subtraction of odd and even numbers.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students use hinged mirrors to discover that the regular polygons are composed of triangles tessellating around a center point. Students then sketch these triangles on paper models of the regular polygons having 3 to 10 sides and compute the measure of the center angles formed by these triangles in each of the different polygons.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students use the ingredients of fruit salad to establish the foundation for proportional reasoning. Students are introduced to proportional reasoning through modeling, sharing, and questioning techniques.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: Students explore and find rules for a growth pattern in snakes. The teacher presents students with rules for a growth pattern that involves red and black rings in imaginary snakes.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–4 Professional Commentary: Students measure, record, and graph plant growth and interpret data. Students plant seeds and, once the seeds sprout, record the height of the plants for several days.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students measure, predict, and determine the frequency of an event as it relates to how close Whirlybirds land to a target. Students participate in a simulation of a parachute jump competition by making paper Whirlybirds, and then dropping them towards a target on the floor.... |