The student will develop number and operation sense needed to represent numbers and number relationships verbally, symbolically, and graphically and to compute fluently and make reasonable estimates in problem solving.
Lesson: Introduces students to fractions and explores basic mathematical operations with fractions, comparing fractions, and converting fractions into decimals or percents.
Lesson: Students practice arithmetic skills. Can be tailored for practice of all types of single operation arithmetic ranging from simple addition to operations with integers and decimals.
Activity: Learn about percent through burning a virtual forest. The activity allows the user to burn a stand of trees and then guess either the percent of trees burned or the number that actually burned. Fire: Estimating Percent is one of the Interactivate assessment explorers.
Activity: A game like Fraction Four but instead of fraction questions the player must answer order of operations questions (addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, exponents, and parentheses) to earn a piece to place on the board. Parameters: time limit, difficulty level, types of questions. Order of Operations Four is one of the Interactivate assessment games.