Contributed Lesson Ideas

The following ideas were contributed by teachers partcipating in the Summer Mathematics Teachers' Academy. Project PRIME' offer these as ideas whose worthiness is to be judged by the user accordingly. The presence of these ideas on this site should not be construed as an endorsement of the plan by Project PRIME'.

These contributed ideas are organized by the content strands of the New York State Mathematics Standard.

• Number and Operation
  • The Great Granola Grab - Grade 1 (addition and subtraction)
  • Comparing Fractions - Grade 1 (comparing fractions)
  • Fractions in Action - Grade 4 (understanding fractions as part of a unit whole)
  • Fraction Frenzy - Middle grades (using multiples of ¹/₄)
  • You want me to Excuse your Dear Aunt Who for What?! - grade 7 - 10 (Order of Operations) - uses "Bowl-a-Fact" from the Mathematical Sciences Education Board Prototype for Mathematics Assessment
• Algebra
  • Watch Your StepÉYou May Collide! - Grade 9 - 10 (solving systems of linear equations graphically)
  • The Amazing Factoring Race - Grade 9 (factoring polynomials)
  • Factor Those Tricky Trinomials - Grade 8 (factoring polynomials)
  • Where Do We Meet? - Grade 9 (solving systems of linear equations graphically)
  • Picture This: Picture Functions - Grade 9 (patterns and functions)
  • The Amazing Houdini - Grade 7 (number trick analysis)
  • The Magical Mystery of Math - Elementary Grades (number trick analysis)
• Geometry
  • Blowing up the Picture - Grade 9 -10 (similarity and proportion)
  • Similarity Schmimilarity - Grade 8 - 10 (similar triangles)
  • YouÕre Flat Out Right! - Middle Grades (Exploring Euler's formula for graphs and polyhedra)
    Powerpoint for You're Flat Out Right!
  • Tricky String Triangles: Do They Always Work? - Grade 5 (triangle inequality and perimeter)
• Measurement
  • String It Along - Grade 4 (measuring length with string)
• Statistics and Probability
  • Control Your Destiny! - Intermediate and Middle Grades - using the activity "Grades and Marbles" from Daniel Brahier