"My First Baseball Game" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy and his sister going to their first baseball game and learning what it means to be Chicago Cubs fans. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...

Choose from a variety of courses, lesson plans, and resources aligned to the Common Core standard of creating audio recordings of stories or poems.

First graders work towards CCSS.MP1: Make sense of and persevere through problems with this introductory lesson. Students learn to visualize what is happening in the problem.

In this dynamic data science activity, students use data to build binary trees for decision-making and prediction. Prediction trees are the first steps towards linear regression, which plays an important role in machine learning for...

Read about strategies to help students integrate information across diverse media formats. Includes video. [4:18]

Solve quadratic equations of the form ax^2+bx+c by completing the square. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.

Access and explore large datasets from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 2003). Working with large datasets that emphasize exploration, finding patterns, and modeling is an essential first step in becoming...

For this task, students analyze the sizes of a country's population and of its food supply to determine when and if food shortages will occur. To solve it, they must construct and compare linear and exponential functions and find where...

Sixth graders examine negative numbers and their relationships in inequalities in this problem. Aligns with 6.NS.C.7.a.

Sixth graders work with positive and negative numbers in a real-world context in this problem about elevation as it relates to sea level. Aligns with 6.NS.C.5.

Students are required to solve a system of equations in this task which will demonstrate their understanding of the correspondence between intersection points of the two graphs and solutions of the system. Aligns with A-REI.C.7.

This task has two separate goals: the first is to solve a pair of equations, one quadratic and the other linear. The second goal is to observe that a point that lies on a circle gives rise to a Pythagorean triple. Aligns with A-REI.C.7.

A page which uses exponents as a step-by-step example of how logic is used to find complex mathematical concepts by building upon simpler concepts.

In this activity, students learn to identify geometric series. They determine if a sequence converges and also learn to calculate the sum of numbers in a geometric series.

An introduction to the graphs of polynomial functions by looking at the roots of the polynomials, or where it crosses the x-axis. Includes links to pictures of graphs and detailed explanations.

Find fifteen worksheets designed to provide practice on maintaining verb tense. These exercises have been created expressly for elementary students. All worksheets are available as PDFs.

This fifteen-item worksheet will help you determine how well you understand how to use commas with introductory elements in a sentence.

Work through links to activities, assessments, websites, and videos to learn about connotation and denotation.

Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Young scholars will practice the reading comprehension skill of visualizing. Teachers will model the skill with All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan. Then students will listen to Robert Service's poem "The Shooting of Dan...

In this exercise, students practice addition word problems within 10. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.

In this exercise, students practice subtraction word problems within 10. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.

A quick guide to help you determine the relevance and authority of a resource.

Have you ever wondered what the difference is with mean, median, and mode? Here are some exercises that will help you understand what each is.