Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.
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STEM Lessons - Model Eliciting Activity
In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students will work cooperatively to help Sweetie Cake Pops choose the best cake pop help improve their recipes. They will work in groups to look at data and generate responses orally and in writing.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx
MFAS Formative Assessments
Students are asked to count by tens and then use pictures of bundles of tens to demonstrate when counting by tens.
Students are told what day of school it is and then asked to determine what day it will be 10 days later and what day comes after day 59.
Original Student Tutorials Mathematics - Grades K-5
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Original Student Tutorials
Join Thomas and count to twenty by ones in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to count to ten by ones with this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Educational Games
Count along with George by popping bubbles from his bath. You can pop the bubbles by counting out loud with George if your computer has a microphone. If your computer does not have a microphone, you can click on the bubbles to count!
Type: Educational Game
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A printable hundreds chart featuring a 10x10 table numbered 1 to 100. (found on Illuminations website under "Trading for Quarters")
Type: Educational Software / Tool
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What does 100 look like? Sound like? Feel like? In this video from Teacher's Domain, Curious George helps students explore the many ways to measure 100 things.
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Virtual Manipulatives
This interactive Flash applet supports the exploration of numbers to 100 by simulating a 100-bead string. A teacher or child can move all or some beads to the left or right to add and subtract. The controls allow users to move beads individually or 10 at a time to model different counting and calculation strategies. Users can hide or show the numbers represented by the beads. This applet lends itself well to use on an interactive white board. A PDF guide to this collection of teaching applets is cataloged separately.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
This applet asks students to save as many octopuses as possible before the timer runs out. A number of how many they can net is displayed in the top right, and they will use the mouse to net that amount into the tank before releasing them for the next round. When the timer is up, another screen comes up with the number of octopuses saved represented in rows of ten. Finally, students will be asked to input on a number line how many they successfully saved.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
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This site features an educational game of chance set to the familiar nursery rhyme "The Incey Wincey Spider". It helps students learn to move along a track on either side of a central point, as a precursor to working on a number line. The game is played with two people who roll a die to move either up or down a vertical waterspout. The game can be played with the applet or on paper. All you need is two dice (number generators).
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A printable hundreds chart featuring a 10x10 table numbered 1 to 100. (found on Illuminations website under "Trading for Quarters")
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A printable list of nine counting book references.
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What does 100 look like? Sound like? Feel like? In this video from Teacher's Domain, Curious George helps students explore the many ways to measure 100 things.
Type: Video/Audio/Animation