• Solving word problems involving elapsed time

Everyday Mathematics
Students will determine how to solve word problems involving time and money.

Just In Time
Students will demonstrate proficiency in determining elapsed time.

Elapsed Time
Students will use beginning and ending time to calculate elapsed time.

Pigs Will Be Pigs
Students will be able to correctly plan and calculate the total amount of money needed for specific items ordered from a given menu of foods.

Fraction Fun
Students will develop strategies for adding and subtracting fractions. Students will search for and generalize patterns.

Cookie Time
Students will have to figure out how to spend an allotted amount of money on food items to decorate a cookie.

Wishing and Hoping
Students will decide what jobs to do at home in order to earn enough money to buy special items that they want.

Pig Out Piggies!
This lesson is a performance event that addresses the concepts of money; budgets; adding, subtracting, multiplying money; and decision making.

Day at Six Flags
Performance task in which students make choices about spending money--application of math to life skills, graphic organizer.

 

Word Problems for Kids Grade 5
Students will improve their problem solving skills.

Fill 'Er Up
Students will use estimation strategies to solve problems with money and other decimal units.

Clock Arithmetic
Show elapsed time using interactive clock.

Math Maven's Mysteries
Click on the title of a mystery and use your math skills to solve each case.

A Maths Dictionary for Kids by Jenny Eather 
The Maths Dictionary is animated, interactive, and allows students to practice their math skills. Over 500 terms are explained in simple language. Click on "billion" and discover that you have 10 billion brain cells working for you right now. Roll your mouse over the world time zone chart and you instantly know the time for that part of the world. Every math teacher should bookmark this Web site.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Virtual manipulatives related to NCTM standards in the areas of Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement,  and Data Analysis & Probability.  To access tools, click inside the grid on the cell that matches the grade level and standards area desired.

Figure This!
From NCTM:  Three to four math challenges using real world examples are posted here each month. For those who need help solving the challenge, there are hints and complete solutions, along with related problems.

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