ALEX Resources

Title: Nursery Rhyme Word Problems
Description: In this lesson students will create basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems using common nursery rhymes.  Students will distinguish the key elements of word problems and incorporate those elements into a nursery rhyme.
Standard(s):
[TC2] (3-5) 12:

Title: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
Description: As a hands-on lesson, the students will recognize the correct usage of the order of operations. In groups, the students will work cooperatively to discover the importance of following step-by-step instructions and apply that knowledge in solving algebraic equations by correctly using the order of operations. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.    
Standard(s):
[MA2015] (5) 9:

Title: Divide Using One-Digit Divisors
Description: Student will explore the meaning of division. This lesson also includes writing quotients for one-digit divisors in division. The student will gain an understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division.This lesson plan is for the divisor 2 and can be used with other divisors.
Standard(s):
[MA2015] (4) 11:

Title: Let's Go Shopping!
Description: This technology-based lesson provides students practice in collecting and organizing data through the use of grocery store circulars.
Standard(s):
[MA2015] (3) 3:

Title: Nursery Rhyme Division Problems
Description: Students will complete a division word problem activity that requires them to find whole-number quotients and quotients with remainders. This activity should be used after the students have been taught division strategies. This activity can be used as an assessment or extra practice for solving division word problems. This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.
Standard(s):
[MA2015] (4) 11:

Title: Number and Operations Web Links
Description: This collection of Web links, reviewed and presented by Illuminations, offers teachers and students information about and practice in concepts related to arithmetic. Users can read the Illuminations Editorial Board's review of each Web site, or choose to link directly to the sites.
Standard(s):
[MA2015] (5) 26:

Title: Communicating about Mathematics Using Games: Playing Fraction Tracks
Description: Mathematical games can foster mathematical communication as students explain and justify their moves to one another. In addition, games can motivate students and engage them in thinking about and applying concepts and skills. This e-example from Illuminations contains an interactive version of a game that can be used in the grades 3-5 classroom to support students' learning about fractions. e-Math Investigations are selected e-examples from the electronic version of the Principles and Standards of School Mathematics (PSSM). The e-examples are part of the electronic version of the PSSM document. Given their interactive nature and focused discussion tied to the PSSM document, the e-examples are natural companions to the i-Math investigations.
Standard(s):
[MA2015] (5) 26: