Set Theory Practice
Use this Venn Diagram activity as a visual aid to understand union, intersection, and subsets.
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Bedtime Math
Be sure to visit Bedtime Math daily for fun, informative stories accompanied by math problems for your students at three levels.
The wheels on the bicycle
Click here for an interesting circle problem plus a great suggestion to enhance the task.
How many rectangles?
Give your students a challenge with this competition problem.
Operations on the Number Line
Number line activities build rational number sense. Click here for a great activity that will really make your students think!
Adding fractions with like denominators
Click here for a problem that emphasizes multiple ways to decompose a given fraction, and helps identify the misconception of students …
Understanding Ratio with the Model Method
Here’s a great problem that uses the Model Method to make sense of a word problem with ratios.
Discovery in Middle School Math Lessons
Spend some time at the Annenberg Learner site. Here you can see videos with hands-on activities that help students explore and …
Comparison problems for addition and subtraction
These problems target one-to-one correspondences without the use of comparison language such as “more” or “fewer”.
Equivalent expressions?
This task addresses a commmon misconception when students take allowable moves to solve equations and apply them to expressions.
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