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Math Lesson Plans - Grades 4-5
- Types of Triangles
- Math Manipulatives Lesson Plan - 3rd Grade
- Review of Multiplication
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 3, Evaporation
- Water Cycle Unit, Objectives and Scope
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 5, Precipitation
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 4, Cloud Formation
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 2, Evaporation
- Water Cycle Unit Introduction, Water Cycle
- Water Cycle Unit, Supplementary Materials
- Water Cycle Unit, Culminating Activity
- Water Cycle Unit, Assessment
- Wall St. Rookies
- Let's Write a Song
- 8 days on Deafness and American Sign Language
- Stained Glass Tessellations
- Math Scramble
- Prime Numbers
- Sheila Brune
- Vasarely and Op Art
- Another Math lesson on Place Value
- This multidisciplinary plan is called Music Basketball and deals with Note Values
- Here's a lesson idea on standard form vs expanded form
- "It's On Sale" is the title of this lesson on money and shopping
- Here's a Geometry lesson in which students create 2D and 3D Shapes with Toothpicks and Chick-Peas
- This magical lesson uses the story of Cinderella to teach rounding
- This lesson is on Multiplying Fractions using Manipulatives
- Jump-O-Math is a game idea that combines hopscotch, counting, and addition
- Here is another addition, subtraction, or multiplication "War" card game idea
- Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this lesson
- More Spider Graphing
- Map Rubric
- Day 8: Route to Freedom:Mapping North Carolina's UGR routes
- In this lesson, students convert and sequentially order fractions and decimals
- This well-developed lesson plan is on Geometric Architecture and involves students creating their own "Architecture"
- This flashcard game idea is used to review and memorize multiplication facts
- This 3-day lesson is devoted to creating, exploring, and manipulating tangram
- A Math lesson on telling time
- A Math lesson to teach Fractions using
- A fun Graphing lesson to track the home runs of Big Mac and Slammin' Sammy
- This is a multiplication order of operations game
- After each student creates a self-descriptive bubble map, the class graphs the popular adjectives in this first day of school idea
- Here is a lesson plan on skip counting that uses a "Pass The Paper" game
- Lesson 2 involves exploring Simple Machines in groups
- "Does McDonald's Sell Cheese Burger Recipes?" is an acronym idea introducing long division
- Unit Materials and Resources
- This brief idea involves Wheels and Axles
- What could be more exciting than NASCAR and math?
- Lesson 5 discusses Assembly Lines and the making of products
- Geo-boards and popsicle sticks are used here to construct eight geometric shapes
- "Fraction Pyramid" is an idea that combines math, social studies, and cooperation
- UGR Unit Rubrics
- "Swat It" is a multiplication game idea using flyswatters
- Here students use the "Art of Geometry" to create actual 9-patch quilts
- This second part of lesson 4 continues the Matching Activity above
- Here's a multidisciplinary plan on the water cycle
- In this cooperative learning lesson, students estimate the number of objects in a box and add them together by grouping
- Here's a mental math card game
- This math operations (+ - x /) game requires students to pool their assigned numbers into a math sentence to reach the target answer
- This lesson discusses Pulleys and their use
- Here is a lesson on statistics
- This is a checking account debit and credit lesson
- Here's a brief graphing idea to use during the Olympics
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- This fun idea involves throwing balls into divided boxes to determine numbers to add (integrates PE)
- These "First Excel Lessons" teach students how to enter and format data to create simple bar charts
- Here's a magically delicious graphing activity with Lucky Charms
- Using a jump rope rhyme is an effective idea to teach note values
- This math and music idea instills numeracy without using number symbols
- Favorite Parts in Charolotte's Web
- Polygon Monsters - create them and write about them!
- This is a lesson on probability and chance
- Here is another arithmetic lesson involving writing and fairy tales
- Here's a Valentine's Day idea on latitude, longitude, and coordinates called "Valentine Battleship"
- A lesson on Fractions in everyday life
- Teaching Temperature is the title of this lesson involving Fahrenheit Vs Celsius
- This lesson on Geometrical Shapes uses the story "The Greedy Triangle"
- Lesson Plan 3 - Virtual Exploration of Lascaux Cave
- A Math Lesson using Estimation, Problem Solving, and Measurement
- A Math lesson involving on measurement and comparing using literature
- The unit begins with an introduction to the Simple Machines Unit
- Day 3: Hear the Whistle Blow! -Musical Messages of Freedom
- A lesson on addition and subtraction using calculators
- In this lesson, students apply social studies & math skills to plan a field trip
- This three-generation history of travel lesson includes multidisciplinary enrichment activities
- This lesson idea on rounding is called "We've Got Power"
- This "Complete Me" decimal game teaches how decimals can be added together to form a whole
- This lesson is on the Interaction between Living and Nonliving things in an Ecosystem
- This problem-solving bar-graph lesson uses centimeter measurements of hat sizes
- This is a fun fraction hunt idea
- This lesson is on Multiplication Facts with the Numbers 3, 6, 7, and 9
- Here are some activities for the 100th Day of School
- This lesson involves Tracking Time and the importance of Collecting Data
- "Joe's Treasure Hunt" involves finding x:y coordinates on a graph
- Day 10: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom - Continued
- A Math lesson on geometry involving spatial reasoning
- "Time for Fractions and Percents" uses a clock to teach these concepts
- Pumpkin Math Riddle
- This multidisciplinary kite building lesson is a great way to apply geometry
- Unit Comprehensive Assessment
- A very good Math lesson on Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
- Predicting with Charlotte's Web
- This Math and Science lesson plan involves creating Favorite Flower Graphs
- This well-developed lesson on the components of a community includes suggested connections to other disciplines
- Young students create number garlands here to begin their exposure to multiplication
- Here's an idea for "Math Skeeball"
- Comic book stories are rewritten here to include numerical content that is then turned into illustrated word problems for peers to solve
- Levers are the subject of this part of the unit
- This is an Easter lesson on patterns in art and math
- An activty on multiple perspectives
- A Math lesson to teach about Angles using Pattern Blocks
- Tangrams and fox fairies are the subjects of this intriguing lesson
- Here students use cameras and video to show mathematical operations used in everyday life
- Children recognize the importance of line in artwork in this hatching and cross-hatching drawing lesson
- Lesson Plan 1 - Mapping Walls
- Olympic Opening Ceremonies
- Timeline for Implementation of Lessons
- Here's an idea for Greater Than / Less Than Bingo
- UGR Unit Bibliography And Webliography
- Here are some good ideas to get Students involved in getting Parents to Parent's Night
- This lesson looks at Fractions as Part of a Collection
- These center activities serve as a delightful introduction to the common garden snail
- This idea has students hopping to answer math problems
- The "Freeze, Pair and Share" strategy is practiced here for note value, addition, etc.
- This Easter lesson is called Egg Wrap and is on Circumference, Measurement, and Estimation
- This is a neat idea where students help make a real "Rhythm Pizza"
- An idea for a lesson on Spatial Reasoning and Directions using human "mazes"
- A fun lesson to teach Latitude and Longitude and Plotting called "Box and Deliver"
- This multidisciplinary vacation lesson exercises math problem solving, art, literary, and map skills
- Hershey Math is a just a fraction more fun than other equivalent lessons
- This 5-minute interval time-telling lesson utilizes "Clocks and More"
- In this lesson, students create spreadsheets and graphs of Skittles colors
- This part focuses on Safety Equipment needed for some Machines
- Narrative Rationale
- Sentences are used in this idea for Greater / Less Than
- Unit introduction, timeline, essential questions, objectives, national standards, adaptations
- In this game, students use their bodies to represent rhythms
- This lesson is on Earth's biomes and climates
- A collection of questions for a Math test
- The phase changes of matter are studied here by making ice cream in a recloseable plastic bag
- Diary Writing Rubric
- First we look back to before there were any "Machines," and look at Simple Machines like Corkscrews and Screwdrivers
- Math manipulatives are used here to show how fractions apply to note values
- This one, called Class Bank, is to help develop Good Habits, Learner Awareness, and Spelling
- This motivational Mad Minute Team Relay game builds both social and math skills
- Here group members throw a softball like a shot put and the averaged length is calculated
- Cooperative Group Work Rubric
- Here's a big Economics Unit that is standards-based and titled "Classroom Business"
- A lesson involving Making Tessellations
- This is a Matching Activity with Simple Machines and their Definitions
- Card Yahtzee is a team building probability game with human cards
- A Geometry lesson called Building a Model of a Dream Home
- Here is another lesson on volume
- A lesson on Equations that uses a game called Twenty-Four
- Force, Motion, and Velocity are the subject of this lesson using Balloon Rockets
- Here's an idea for setting up a class shopping center to reinforce math concepts
- In this lesson, students will learn place value by playing poker
- Here students demonstrate understanding of patterns and geometric shapes while creating Native American Wall Hangings
- A Math lesson on Weight and the Estimation of it
- This Multidisciplinary lesson deals with the Esimation of a Pumpkin's Weight as it is carved
- This is an idea for using old decks of cards for Math Problems
- Lesson Plan 4 - Breaking Down Walls
- Here's a lesson on The Times Table
- This is an operations and inverses webquest
- Here is another lesson that answers the question "Which ball bounces the highest?"
- Plotting Facts
- Table of Contents
- Here is a math problem solving lesson involving shopping
- Curriculum Web of Activities
- This is a conversation heart ratio graphing activity
- In this Kidspiration lesson, students make a bar graph of their home activities
- A Lesson on Subtraction that uses area codes
- Spider Math
- Day 6: Underground Research
- With "Dice Math," you can practice multiple operations on multiple numbers
- This is a perfect Halloween math lesson plan: estimating with pumpkin seeds
- This creative lesson teaches two-digit multiplication and the cha-cha
- A Geometry Lesson using Tangrams
- Here's a fun idea called "Who Wants To Be A Mathematician?"
- Greater Gator is a lesson that works with greater than and less than
- This is an Interactive Place Value lesson
- This multiplication warm-up lesson teaches the idea that real things come in multiples
- In this unique idea, students describe their classmates in positive math or scientific terms
- "Christmas Shopping at Harrods" is a problem-solving lesson involving monetary conversions
- A good first day of school idea for gathering Students' Birthdays and teaching Bar Graphs too
- Students use technology resources here to compare fat, sugar and calorie content of two restaurant meals in graph and table form
- This arithmetic lesson uses estimation
- Here is a collection of ideas for integrating multiplication facts with other subjects
- An idea for teaching Decimal Operations by means of a Restaurant Simulation
- "Music Math" teaches order of operations using note values
- In this lesson, students can Build a Car (an Index Card Car)
- We continue with Wedges in this lesson
- This is a composite numbers and prime factorization lesson
- Force and Work are discussed in this portion of the unit
- Graphing Spider Facts
- Improve critical thinking and problem solving skills by teaching chess
- Learning multiplication facts with this lesson is as easy as singing "Row, Row, Row your Boat"
- On a $1000 shopping spree, rounded multi-digit numbers are multiplied by single-digit numbers here
- In this fraction game, students create a reusable MS Word Bingo table and highlight answer squares
- Day 5: Tracking the Quilting Codes - Continued
- This idea on decimal addition and subtraction is called "Bingo Blitz"
- A Math lesson on percents and fractions
- Try "Fraction Matchin'" to practice adding/subtraction fractions with unlike denominators
- This graphing lesson is for use around Valentine's Day - graphing the colors of candy hearts
- This brief idea is on graphing with dice
- This lesson makes rounding simple
- Don't be a "denominator hater" 'cause "Adding Fractions Rap" is in the house!
- Players take turns shading a selected fraction to make a whole shape in this "Complete Me" fraction game idea
- Here's a game idea for adding and subtracting
- This good behavior "money" idea solves the "I lost my pencil" problem
- Here "Dominotes" and "Musical Blackjack" are played
- This lesson on Multiplication Webbing is called Magic Numbers
- Here is another probability lesson based on coin tosses
- "Timez Attack" uses a downloaded computer game to improve multiplication table skills
- A great Math lesson plan on decimals using paper strips
- Day 2: Conductors of Freedom:The Role of Abolitionists and Quakers in the UGR Movement
- A Lesson Plans Page Math Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Teaching Idea in Mathematics, Maths
- A Math lesson plan that uses Music to help teach the Multiplication Facts
- This one is on Math and Mapping Skills, particularly for Florida (adaptable for other states)
- If you are looking for project ideas for an 1850s Westward Expansion/Oregon Trail unit, click here
- This lesson is on the Commutative Property of Mathematics
- Here's a lesson on patterns in music
- Presentation Rubric
- Day 7: Underground Research - Continued
- Here's a fun way for getting students involved in Math Problems on Valentine's Day called Mend My Broken Heart
- A Native American lesson on Indian Chiefs that uses Venn Diagrams
- A Math lesson on Measurement of Distance
- Here is another note value math game
- A multiplication table is filled out by using circles to model multiplication as repeated additions in this lesson
- This circle measurement activity uses bubbles
- In the "Bound-and-Round" game, students use physical activities to retrieve and round numbers
- This map skills lesson teaches how to map routes and determine distances
- In the "Washer Toss" measurement game, mixed number addition is practiced as well as physics concepts
- Here is a lesson on how to incorporate addition and subraction into everyday life
- A lesson on Patterns and Relationships using "Factor Sticks"
- Here is a great way to quiz students on multiplication facts
- Here students use sidewalk chalk to create, measure, and label the "Longest & Weirdest Candy Cane"
- Here is a clever numerical way to introduce yourself to your students on the first day of school
- "Musical Math" deals with the Values of Musical Notes
- Here are some Pi Day (March 14 - 3.14) activity ideas and links
- Students create and compare two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes here using the Geometer's Sketchpad
- Here's a great idea for using cheerleader arm movements for practicing angles and parallel lines
- In this multidisciplinary lesson, students form a beautiful bulletin board using rhythm and math
- Another estimating lesson using money
- This counting lesson idea utilizes tally marks
- Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
- Smarties candies are used in this lesson on comparing Fractions
- A Math lesson that takes advantage of the War Card Game
- Students will have fun and learn their math facts by going on a multiplication treasure hunt in this lesson
- If you want to cause a Revolutionary War in your classroom, try this candy tax lesson
- A lesson on Fractions involving Cuisenaire Rods
- This is a sequencing relay game
- In this lesson, students write a story that involves adding and subtracting money
- This one involves creating M&M; Graphs and Spreadsheets on a computer
- This is a math lesson on addition and subtraction
- Geometer's Sketchpad is used in this lesson to compare lengths and weights of common classroom items
- Here's a unique Multiplication Game idea that uses a Soccer Ball
- This is a simple Symmetry activity idea
- This addition/absolute value lesson plan uses a song to help teach the concepts
- Project Rubric
- This "Math through Music" lesson encourages mental math and quantity analysis while educating students musically
- This lesson will help you teach the Metric System
- This idea on Greater / Less Than uses Cand Bars
- This lesson is meant as an Introduction to Fractions, using manipulative blocks
- Students create a topic specific newspaper here using a template
- Students learn strategies for adding common fractions with like denominators here without provided pictures
- Math Tag
- This is a lesson on reading bar graphs and double-bar graphs.
- A Math Bingo lesson plan on Multiplication
- In this math game idea, the object is to pin the decimal on the back of a whole number
- Here's an idea for Estimating the Weight of Objects
- "Quick Draw" is an old-west note value math game
- This is a bar graph lesson for "Smarties"
- Here's an idea for having students maintain their own Strategy Books
- These are three fun culminating activities for a probability unit
- This lesson idea presents a fun way to learn the Multiplication Tables - with a "Military Song"
- A Math lesson called "Fractions All Around Us"
- If your kids can't relate to the rules of rounding, try this storytelling idea
- In this math lesson, students learn how to save money at the grocery store with sales ads and coupons
- Here is a expanded form place value lesson
- This idea helps to teach Long Division by memorizing an Acronym
- Here's a collection of 22 math lesson plans covering a wide variety of topics and grade levels
- This Easter Egg Hunt lesson helps to review basic Math Facts
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- This lesson on Venn Diagrams uses the book "A Promise is a Promise"
- Problem Solving Strategies with Money are the topics here
- A fun idea for an online lesson on Leap Year
- Day 9: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom
- Culminating Activity-Field Trip
- Witching You a Happy Halloween
- A Math lesson introducing Plane Geometry
- This "Mardi Gras Tokens" agility game motivates students to improve their math and teamwork skills while boosting cardio performance
- A Math lesson on Comparing Fractions
- This musical notes game is called Note Pyramids
- Bring geometry to your students' level with this "Geo-Mat" idea
- This Math lesson is on the 3 types of Angles
- Day 4: Tracking the Quilting Codes
- This Math lesson is on Numeracy and Problem Solving (a test)
- "The Greedy Grab" is a new idea for teaching greater and less than signs
- A PE Kick Ball idea to be used with Math concepts
- Here a fraction circle manipulative is used
- After discussing infinity and Fabergé, students decorate paper Easter eggs in this idea demonstrating the "infinite" possibilities of human imagination
- A lesson on Addition and Place Value involving creating a Mathematical Board
- This lesson is an introduction to using a protractor
- This is a Tic-Tac-Toe game idea that can be used with any math problems
- Here's an idea called Equivalent Fraction Go Fish
- PowerPoint is used here to reinforce the use of operations and how they relate to one another
- This is a "I have... Who has...?" Fractions Facts Game
- Day 1: Derailment of Human Rights:A Life of Slavery
- Lesson Plan 2 - Building the Biggest Walls
- Self-Report Affective Assessment Rubric
- Place Value Bingo
- VALUE with Gridding
