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.... 522 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.... 523 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.... 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.... 525 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.... 527 Begin With Buttons: How Many Buttons? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on two main ideas: the cardinality of sets with 10 or fewer elements and the identification of buttons by multiple attributes. Students make sets of buttons with the same number of buttons or one more or one less than a given number.... 528 Paper Quilts : Parts of a Square Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: Students use paper squares to see how many ways they can fold and then cut a square into two or four equal parts. They must demonstrate that the subdivisions thay obtain are congruent.... 529 Paper Quilts: Exploring Flips and Slides Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: Students use a 4-square quilt pattern to explore translations (slides) and reflections (flips). The site includes activity and recording sheets, discussion questions, extensions, suggestions for assessment, Internet resources, and reflection questions for the teacher.... 530 Paper Quilts: Exploring Turns Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: Students use a 4-square quilt pattern to explore rotations (turns). The site includes activity and recording sheets, discussion questions, extensions, suggestions for assessment, Internet resources, and reflection questions for the teacher.... |