Teaching the Common Core Math Standards with Hands-On Activities, Grades 3-5

About This Book v About the Authors vii Acknowledgments ix SECTION 1: STANDARDS AND ACTIVITIES FOR GRADE 3 1 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 3.OA.1 2 Activity: Combining Groups 2 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 3.OA.2 3 Activity: Breaking into Groups 3 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 3.OA.3 4 Activity: It's a Match 4 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 3.OA.4 8 Activity: Equation Tic-Tac-Toe 8 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 3.OA.5 10 Activity: Applying Properties 10 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 3.OA.6 13 Activity: Number Scramble 13 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 3.OA.7 17 Activity: Multiplication and Division Bingo 17 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 3.OA.8 21 Activity: Which Equation? 21 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 3.OA.9 24 Activity: Color the Multiples 24 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 3.NBT.1 27 Activity: It's Around ... 27 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 3.NBT.2 30 Activity 1: Helping Zero Find a Place 30 Activity 2: Finding Sums and Differences 31 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 3.NBT.3 34 Activity: What Does It Equal? 34 Number and Operations--Fractions: 3.NF.1 37 Activity: Making Fraction Bars 37 Number and Operations--Fractions: 3.NF.2 39 Activity: Placing Fractions on the Number Line 39 Number and Operations--Fractions: 3.NF.3 41 Activity 1: Squares and Fractions 41 Activity 2: Balancing Fractions 43 Measurement and Data: 3.MD.1 45 Activity 1: Time to Read 45 Activity 2: What Time Is It? 46 Measurement and Data: 3.MD.2 47 Activity 1: Make a Metric Monster 47 Activity 2: A Lot of Water 49 Measurement and Data: 3.MD.3 52 Activity: Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs 52 Measurement and Data: 3.MD.4 54 Activity: Hand Spans 54 Measurement and Data: 3.MD.5 57 Activity: Covering the Area 57 Measurement and Data: 3.MD.6 59 Activity 1: Measuring Areas 59 Activity 2: Measuring Areas with Appropriate Tools 60 Measurement and Data: 3.MD.7 63 Activity 1: Tiling and Finding Area 64 Activity 2: Decomposing Areas 65 Measurement and Data: 3.MD.8 67 Activity 1: Area and Finding Perimeter 67 Activity 2: Perimeter and Finding Area 68 Activity 3: Designing a Vegetable Garden 69 Geometry: 3.G.1 72 Activity: Classifying Quadrilaterals 72 Geometry: 3.G.2 75 Activity: Decomposing Figures 75 SECTION 2: STANDARDS AND ACTIVITIES FOR GRADE 4 81 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 4.OA.1 82 Activity: Multiplication Tic-Tac-Toe 82 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 4.OA.2 84 Activity: What's the Problem? 84 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 4.OA.3 86 Activity: Equations and Problems 86 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 4.OA.4 89 Activity: The Prime Challenge 89 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 4.OA.5 92 Activity: Number Generator 92 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 4.NBT.1 94 Activity: Making Models of Place Value 94 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 4.NBT.2 97 Activity: Expressing Numbers 97 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 4.NBT.3 100 Activity: Rounding Numbers 100 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 4.NBT.4 103 Activity: A Numbers Chain 103 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 4.NBT.5 106 Activity 1: Finding Errors in Multiplication 106 Activity 2: Stepping Forward with Multiplication 107 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 4.NBT.6 109 Activity 1: Demonstrating Division 109 Activity 2: Division Puzzles 110 Number and Operations--Fractions: 4.NF.1 113 Activity: Finding Equivalent Fractions 113 Number and Operations--Fractions: 4.NF.2 115 Activity: Comparing Fractions 115 Number and Operations--Fractions: 4.NF.3 118 Activity 1: Decomposing a Fraction 118 Activity 2: Mixed Number Game 119 Activity 3: Problems, Models, and Equations 120 Number and Operations--Fractions: 4.NF.4 127 Activity: Complete the Rows 128 Number and Operations--Fractions: 4.NF.5 130 Activity: Fraction Bingo 130 Number and Operations--Fractions: 4.NF.6 134 Activity 1: Matching Fractions and Decimals 134 Activity 2: Locating Decimals on a Number Line 135 Number and Operations--Fractions: 4.NF.7 139 Activity: Decimal Battle 140 Measurement and Data: 4.MD.1 142 Activity: Our Two Units of Measurement 142 Measurement and Data: 4.MD.2 144 Activity: Word Problems with Measurement 144 Measurement and Data: 4.MD.3 147 Activity: Measuring Rectangles 147 Measurement and Data: 4.MD.4 151 Activity: Pencils and Line Plots 151 Measurement and Data: 4.MD.5 154 Activity: Making an Angle 154 Measurement and Data: 4.MD.6 157 Activity 1: Measuring Angles Virtually 157 Activity 2: Angle Estimate and Measure Game 158 Measurement and Data: 4.MD.7 160 Activity: Decomposing Angles 160 Geometry: 4.G.1 164 Activity 1: Drawing Geometric Figures 164 Activity 2: Shapes and Structures 165 Geometry: 4.G.2 168 Activity: Drawing Two-Dimensional Figures 168 Geometry: 4.G.3 171 Activity 1: Line Symmetry 171 Activity 2: Classroom Line Symmetry 172 SECTION 3: STANDARDS AND ACTIVITIES FOR GRADE 5 173 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 5.OA.1 174 Activity: Evaluating Expressions 174 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 5.OA.2 179 Activity: The Expression Game 179 Operations and Algebraic Thinking: 5.OA.3 182 Activity: Analyzing and Graphing Patterns 182 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 5.NBT.1 184 Activity: What's My Number? 184 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 5.NBT.2 188 Activity: Charting Patterns in Powers of 10 188 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 5.NBT.3 190 Activity: Creating Numbers 190 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 5.NBT.4 193 Activity: Round the Number 193 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 5.NBT.5 196 Activity 1: Modeling Multiplication 196 Activity 2: Finding Errors in Multiplication 197 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 5.NBT.6 200 Activity 1: Piecing Together Division 200 Activity 2: Modeling Division 201 Number and Operations in Base Ten: 5.NBT.7 204 Activity 1: Place Value, Addition, and Subtraction of Decimals 204 Activity 2: Modeling Multiplication and Division of Decimals 205 Number and Operations--Fractions: 5.NF.1 209 Activity 1: Adding Parts of a Whole 209 Activity 2: Finding a Match 210 Number and Operations--Fractions: 5.NF.2 214 Activity: Adding and Subtracting Fractions 214 Number and Operations--Fractions: 5.NF.3 217 Activity: Relating Fractions to Division 217 Number and Operations--Fractions: 5.NF.4 219 Activity 1: Modeling Multiplication of Fractions 220 Activity 2: Tiling Rectangles with Fractions 221 Number and Operations--Fractions: 5.NF.5 225 Activity: Scaling Numbers for Multiplication 226 Number and Operations--Fractions: 5.NF.6 228 Activity: Expanding a Recipe 228 Number and Operations--Fractions: 5.NF.7 231 Activity: Dividing Unit Fractions 231 Measurement and Data: 5.MD.1 235 Activity 1: Measurement Bingo 235 Activity 2: Measurement, Conversions, and Word Problems 236 Measurement and Data: 5.MD.2 242 Activity: Line Plots and Plant Height 242 Measurement and Data: 5.MD.3 247 Activity: Building a Rectangular Prism 247 Measurement and Data: 5.MD.4 249 Activity: Finding Volume 249 Measurement and Data: 5.MD.5 251 Activity 1: Finding the Volume of a Rectangular Prism 251 Activity 2: Using Formulas to Find the Volume of Rectangular Prisms 253 Activity 3: Packing Rectangular Prisms 254 Geometry: 5.G.1 257 Activity: Constructing a Coordinate Plane 257 Geometry: 5.G.2 260 Activity: Graphing Relationships 260 Geometry: 5.G.3 263 Activity: Naming Quadrilaterals 263 Geometry: 5.G.4 267 Activity: A Hierarchy of Two-Dimensional Figures 267 INDEX 271