Fun With Math 6-8

Curriculum Standards

• Develop meaning for integers and represent and compare quantities with them.
• Develop and use strategies to estimate the results of rational number computations and judge the reasonableness of the results.
• Select appropriate methods and tools for computing with fractions and decimals from among mental computation, estimation, calculators or computers, and paper and pencil, depending on the situation, and apply the selected methods.
• Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems.
• Understand the meaning of operations and how they relate to each other;
• Use computational tools and strategies fluently and estimate appropriately

Resources

 http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/
 

Objective:
The students will demonstrate the ability to apply the use of decimals, fractions, ratios, and proportions to situations based upon given information about planets in the solar system.
 http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/concepts/space2/activity2.shtm
 

Math Baseball: A fun concept to learning subtraction,addition, mulitiplicaion,division,with the option of easy -super hard levels..
http://kidsmath.about.com/kids/kidsmath/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funbrain.com%2Fmath%2F
 

Math Master: Students can work independently on increasing their mathematical strengths or weaknesses.
 http://kidsmath.about.com/kids/kidsmath/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohio-distinctive.com%2Ftoybox%2Fgames.html
 

Stock Market Math is an Internet project that allows students to work together in groups while learning mathematical concepts through a real live experience via the net.
 http://www.ali.apple.com/action.lasso?-database=UOPs&-layout=Detailed&-response=%2fali%2fUops_Display.html&-recID=33513&-search
 

Lesson Plan:
This lesson provides yet another opportunity for students to compare and compute percentages and fractions. Once again, they are challenged to "articulate and model the relationship among decimals, fractions, ratios, and percents," as stated in the Tennessee State Curriculum Framework. This lesson also reinforces the skill of determining the most important aspects of a topic, and how they can best be explained to others, as outlined in the Teacher Profiler Survey.
 http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathPercentFractions.htm
 

Working with: Fractions, Decimals, and Gravity
 http://daniel.calpoly.edu/~dfrc/Robin/Weight/weight.html
 

THE TITANIC: An Internet project which involves research, group learning and high order thinking skills.
What Can Numbers Tell Us About Her Fatal Voyage?
 http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/titanic.html
 

Welcome to HPR*TEC's Web Worksheet Wizard
This web-based utility will allow you to create a lesson, worksheet or class page on the World Wide Web. All you need to use this utility is your browser and some time.
  http://wizard.hprtec.org/
 

Middle School Teachers' Place:
Math Software
 http://forum.swarthmore.edu/teachers/middle/soft.html
 
 

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