1 Multiplication: It's in the Cards 2: Looking for Calculator Patterns Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson is the second in a 4-lesson unit focusing on beginning multiplication. In this lesson, students learn to make their calculator or a web-based calculator skip count, and they use the results to begin filling in the basic multiplication chart. From the chart they notice that multiplication is commutative. The calculator applet, a worksheet of the blank multiplication chart, questions for... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: The Factor Game engages students in a friendly contest in which winning strategies involve distinguishing between numbers with many factors and numbers with few factors. Students are guided through an analysis of game strategies and introduced to the definitions of prime and composite numbers.... 3 Multiplication: It's in the Cards 1: Looking for Patterns Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson is the first in a 4-lesson unit focusing on beginning multiplication. In this first lesson, students skip count and color multiples on a 0-99 board.... 4 Understanding Factoring through Geometry Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: Using square unit tiles, students work with a partner to construct all rectangles whose area is equal to a given number. After several examples, students see that prime numbers are associated with exactly two rectangles, whereas composite numbers are associated with more than two rectangles.... 5 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Recognize property of odd numbers Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to recognize that an odd number of items cannot be divided into pairs. This constructed-response question is an "easy" test item used in grade 4 of the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 6 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Find an Even Number Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students must identify which of four 3-digit numbers is even. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grade 4 in the 1990 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 7 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Solve a multi-step word problem Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students must identify the correct answer to a multi-step word problem. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grades 4 and 8 in the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 8 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Find the Result When You Add Two Numbers and Then Divide by 3 Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 4–5 Professional Commentary: Students must identify the result when the sum of 39 and 66 is divided by 3. They have the option of using a calculator.... 9 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Given a context, identify a multiple of 6 Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students identify which of four 2-digit numbers is a multiple of 6, in the context of a word problem. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grades 4 and 8 in the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 10 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Solve a multi-step money problem Resource Type: Assessments Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students must solve a multi-step word problem involving whole numbers in the context of money. They have the option of using a calculator.... |