Arithmetic Quiz:
In this activity, students solve arithmetic problems involving whole numbers, integers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This activity allows students to track their progress in learning how to perform arithmetic on whole numbers and integers. This activity includes supplemental materials, including background information about the topics covered, a description of how to use the application, and exploration questions for use with the java applet.
Type: Educational Software / Tool
Dividing Using an Area Model:
Students are asked to interpret a division problem with a one-digit divisor that has been completed using an area model. If the student is successful, he or she is asked to complete a division problem with a one-digit divisor using an area model.
Type: Formative Assessment
Book Drive:
Students are asked to solve a division problem using a strategy based on place value.
Type: Formative Assessment
Interpreting Division:
Students are asked to analyze and explain another student’s division work in terms of a partial quotients strategy and to apply this strategy to another division problem.
Type: Formative Assessment
Dividing Using Place Value:
Students are asked to complete a division problem using place value.
Type: Formative Assessment
"Life's a Breeze!":
In this Engineering Design Challenge, students must design a vessel that will carry passengers safely and quickly across a body of water by harnessing the power of the wind. Students will be given the opportunity to test and improve their vessels as they apply various math and science skills.
Type: Lesson Plan
Heating Up the Neighborhood:
This Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students apply the concepts of heat insulators as they build a model house and test different materials to use as insulators, stopping the warm air from escaping and keeping the cool air out. Students will also have an opportunity to use technology in their exploration of heat energy.
Type: Lesson Plan
Set Sail with STEM: Exploring Wind and Water Movement as Energy with Sailboats:
Come sail away with this STEM activity! Students will use hands-on inquiry to find out more about wind and its effect on sails. Through trial and error and based on data collected, students will design, build, and race their own vessel or "sailboat" across the boundless waters of a kiddie pool. Students should gain a better understanding of how moving water and air are sources of energy and can propel objects forward at varying rates of speed.
Type: Lesson Plan
Dividing for Equal Groups:
This lesson is meant to help solidify division understanding before teaching the standard algorithm. Given a situational story, students will use base 10 blocks to model division in order to solve problems. It may be used for 4th or 5th grade depending on the size of the divisor.
Type: Lesson Plan
I Love Leftovers!:
In this lesson, students will explore situational problems that address the different ways to interpret the remainder.
Type: Lesson Plan
I See! Division with the Distributive Property:
In this lesson, students will use visual models to represent division using the distributive property as a strategy. Students will have an understanding of how to decompose numbers in the context of division problems using an area model.
Type: Lesson Plan
Aaron and Anya's Quilt Challenge: Problem Solving and Interpreting Remainders:
In this situational story, Aaron and Anya find a large piece of brightly colored fabric. They decide to cut it into squares to make a quilt. Students will find the area of the fabric by multiplying two digits by two digits. They will explore factors as they figure out the largest quilt square that can be cut for 25 students. There will be fabric left over; students will have to determine and justify remainders based on several different scenarios. Finally, students will create their own quilt square using grid paper.
Type: Lesson Plan
Share and Share Alike:
This lesson is an introduction to divisionand does not include a procedural recording for division.The student will be able to physically model the division of 2-, 3-, and 4-digit dividends with 1-digit divisors using objects and base ten blocks and explain the meaning of a remainder.
Type: Lesson Plan
CPALMS Aquarium: Part 3 Division with Larger Numbers:
Learn more about division with larger numbers in this aquarium-themed, interactive tutorial.
This is part 3 of in a three-part series. Click below to learn different strategies to help you become more efficient with division.
- Part 1: Connecting Multiplication and Division
- Part 2: Division Strategies
Type: Original Student Tutorial
CPALMS Aquarium Part 2: Division Strategies:
Learn to solve division challenges using the partial quotients strategy with this interactive tutorial.
This is the second tutorial is a series on division strategies.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
CPALMS Aquarium: Connecting Multiplication and Division: Part 1:
Learn how multiplication connects to division to help understand what division is in this aquarium-themed, interactive tutorial.
This is part 1 of a two-part series. Click to open Part 2, Division Strategies.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
