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"An Introduction to Area and Perimeter"
Edwina R. Justice Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy
10641 South Lowe Ave. 4420 South Sacramento Ave.
Chicago IL 60628 Chicago IL 60632
(312) 468-3376 (312) 535-7215
Objectives (Staff):
Demonstrate a phenomenological approach to teaching mathematics
Inspire others to use the approach
Objectives (Grades 4-7):
Form rectangles by using tiles
Measure area and perimeter by ...
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"The Surface Area of a Cylinder" (Version 2.0)
Justice, Edwina Gunsaulus Academy
10641 South Lowe Avenue 1-312-650-7215
Chicago, IL 60628
1-312-468-3376
Introductory Comments:
This is a description of a phenomenological approach presentation. It is an
extension of a mini-teach, "The Area of a Circle" (1986) and a PA, "The Surface Area
of a Cylinder" (1988). A problem-solving situation, which requires the use of the
two concepts, was ...
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An Introduction to Estimation and Measurements
Christeen Brown Robert Fulton Elementary
1704 W. Marquette Rd 5300 S. Hermitage St
Chicago IL 60636 Chicago IL 60609
(312) 471-2627 (312) 535-9000
Objectives:
This lesson is designed for grade levels 3-5
Upon completion of the lesson, the students should be able to:
L Convert ounces to pounds
L Measure liquids
L Describe measurements in sizes
L Measure volumes
L Understand the ...
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An Introduction To Volume
Linda James Woods Harold Washington Elementary School
12056 S. Justine 9130 So. University Avenue
Chicago IL 60643 Chicago IL 60619
(312) 928-7479 (312) 535-6225
Objectives:
This mini teach is designed for grades 3 to 5.
L To count volume in cubic units
L To multiply to find volume
L To estimate volume
L To write a multiplication sentence to find the volume
L To discover volume o ...
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Mathematics/Physics
Liquid Volume
Robert FooteDisney Magnet
4140 N. Marine Drive4140 N. Marine Drive
CHICAGO IL 60613CHICAGO IL 60613
(773) 534-5844
Objective(s):
Students will learn and use formulas for the volume of a rectangular prism and volume of a cylinder.
Students will see the relationship between cubic centimeters and milliliters.
Students will compute formulas with and without calculators.
This lesson is designed for a junior high classroom.
Materials:
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Circumferences, Diameters, and Radii
Dwayne Belle Fuller School
9646 S. Wentworth 4212 S. St. Lawrence
Chicago IL 60628 Chicago IL 60628
(312) 928-6473 (312) 535-1688
Objectives:
Students will be able to measure circumferences in inches.
Students will be able to compute radii and diameters, given different
circumferences.
Materials Needed:
-blackboard
-notebook paper
-signs
-tape measures
-cans
Strate ...
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Estimation
Iona Greenfield Carnegie Elementary School
9748 S. Sangamon 1414 E. 61st Street
Chicago IL 60643 Chicago IL 60637
(312)239-6731 (312)535-0350
Objectives:
This lesson is designed for Kindergarten and First Grade.
Solve problems by guessing and checking.
Identify length by using informal units to estimate.
Guess the number of peas in a pod and write an addition and subtracti ...
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Forming, Measuring and Labeling Angles
Essie Lee May May Community Academy
8518 S. Exchange Ave. 512 N. LaVergne
Chicago IL 60617 Chicago IL 60644
(312) 221-4123 (312) 535-4325
Objective:
Students will be able to form angles, measure angles and label angles.
Materials Needed:
1. protractor
2. angle patterns
3. apparatus for forming angles
Strategy:
Forming Angles
1. Provide each student with ...
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Getting To Know You
Kathy Koval Randolph School
6651 South Keeler 7316 South Hoyne
Chicago IL 60629 Chicago IL 60636
(312) 582-7832 (312) 535-9015
Objectives:
This lesson can be easily adapted for all grade levels. Upon completion of
this lesson, the students will be able to do the following:
-Use a ruler and measure accurately to the nearest inch.
-Draw and label properly different graphs (line, pie, bar, pictograp ...
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How To Measure Area
Levi Johnson James Otis
480 N. Mc Clurg Ct 525 N. Armour
Chicago IL 60611 Chicago IL
(773) 534-6576
Objective:
The seventh graders will demonstrate an understanding of square units.
Materials Needed:
twelve inch rulers, floor space in the room at least 4 feet by 12 feet,
rectangular objects
Strategy:
Have an individual demonstrate the ...
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Inch by Inch and Centimeter by Centimeter Extravaganza
Pamela J. Bates-Hines Ninos Heroes Academy
1719 E. 83rd Place 8344 S. Commercial Ave.
Chicago IL 60617 Chicago IL 60617
(312) 731-0368 (312) 535-6694
Objectives:
Kindergarten-Primary
* Students will be able to measure one inch to a yard.
* Students will be able to measure one centimeter to a meter.
* Students will be able to compare and contrast standard to non-standard
u ...
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Interior Design
Sally Hill Horatio May Community Academy
1538 N. LeClaire Ave 512 N. LaVergne
Chicago IL 60651-1573 Chicago IL 60644
(312) 637-2199 (312) 534-6140
Objective:
This lesson is designed for intermediate grades 4-6. The students will be able
calculate area and perimeter in inches.
Materials Needed:
* 4 Cardboard Walls (approximate size 36X50)
* Scissors
* Glue or glue sticks
* Wall paper or w ...
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Measurement/Temperature
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Content Area: Measurement
Skills: Temperature (hot/cold)
Prerequisites:
Instructional Practices: Problem Solving, Communication, Reasoning and Connections to the World.
Materials Needed: Big books: "What Makes the Weather" by: Janet Palazzo, and/or "Cats, Hats, Socks, and Mittens" by: Louise Borden or any other appropriate books on the Four Seasons. Poster boards, an in ...
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Measurement
Grade Level: K-2
Content Areas: Measurement
Skillss: Sorting, volume, weight, height
Prerequisites:
Instructional Practices: Estimation, Communication, and Problem Solving
Materials Needed: 3 sizes of artificial flowers, a small flower pot, 3 baggies of different kinds of seeds label A, B, and C; a large flower (approximately 45" tall); a calibrated jar, a scoop,
crayons, pencil
Technology: Math Concepts ...
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Measurement/Time
Grade Level: First
Content Area: Measurement/Time
Skills: Time to the hour
Prerequisites: Number recognition
Instructional Practices: Problem Solving
Materials Needed:
Time To by Bruce McMillan
"Hickory Dickory Dock" chartlet
individual student clocks
large teacher clock
"Make a Clock" handout
brads
scissors
wipe off board
markers
Technology: Talking Clock
Activity:
To intro ...
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Measurement/Time
Grade Level: First
Content Area: Measurement-Time
Skills:
Prerequisites:
Instructional Practices: Estimation, Problem Solving, Reasoning, Connections to the Real World
Materials Needed:
All in a Day by Mitsumaso Anno
two candles of different size
Technology:
Activity:
In an introduction to time, the teacher will light the two candles at the same time and ask the class which candle they th ...
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Measurement/Volume
Grade Level: First Grade
Content Area: Measurement
Skills: Volume
Perquisites:
Instructional Practices: Estimations, Reasoning, and Connections
Materials: Water and measuring cups, five clear plastic bottles of the same size
Technology:
Activity:
Collect five empty clear plastic bottles of the same size. Put a different amount of water in each bottle, leaning one bottle empty and fillin ...
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p align="center">Measurement
GRADE LEVEL: 5th
CONTENT AREA: Measurement
SKILLS: Make and use measurements in every day situations
PREREQUISITES: 5.0 grade level in reading and math
INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES:
Estimation, reasoning, measurement, fractions, charts, shapes, relate activity to daily situation
MATERIALS NEEDED:
One large uncut pumpkin; several additional uncut pumpkins of varying sizes - one pumpkin for eac ...
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Measurement/Money
Grade Level: Third
Content Area: Measurement-Money
Skills: Determine money value for coins and bills and read/write money amounts using dollar symbol, decimal notation, & cent symbol-
Prerequisites:
Recognize and know value of penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half- dollar, $1.00, $5.00, $10.00, and $20.00. Determine value of collection of coins in terms of cents.
Instructional Practices: Estimations, Reasoni ...
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Measurement/Linear
Grade Level: Third
Content Area: Measurement-Linear and Mass/Weight
Skills: Measuring in Standard and Metric Units
Prerequisites: Measuring with Non-Standard Units, be able to use read metric and standard measuring tools-
Instructional Practices: Differences Among People, Connections To Real World
Materials Needed: Scales (metric and standard), tape measure Metric and standard) paper (one sheet of B ...
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Measurement/Time
Grade Level: Third
Content Area: Measurement-Time
Skills: Elapse time, compare measurement terms, time to the nearest intervals, A.M. and P.M.-
Prerequisites: Measure with Nonstandard Units
Instructional Practices: Estimations, Reasoning and Connections to the Real World
Materials Needed:
Books (Refer to Section: Mathematics-related children's literature and concept books, time), Judy Clock for each ...
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Maximizing and Minimizing the Area of Rectangles Given a Fixed Perimeter
Tim Amrein Franklin Fine Arts Center
330 W. 25th Place 225 Evergreen St.
Chicago IL 60616 Chicago IL 60660
(312) 534-8510
Objectives:
Grade Levels 5-8. (This activity can be simplified for younger, less
mathematically mature students. Numerous extensions can be added for more
advanced students.)
(1) Students will analyze and ...
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Measurement (cup, pt, qt, gal)
JoAnn Campbell Leslie Lewis School
1630 N. Moody 1431 N. Leamington
Chicago, IL 60639 Chicago, IL 60651
312-804-3060
Objective:
Fifth grade students will be able to rename measurements with cups, pints,
quarts, and gallons and to choose appropriate units of capacity.
Materials needed:
Materials needed are per group.
Two 8-oz cups Two 1-p ...
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Measurement-What is it?
Claudy E. Chapman Hartigan School
9351 S. Woodlawn 8 W. Root St.
Chicago IL 60619 Chicago IL 60609
(312) 768-5518 (312) 535-1460
Objectives:
The objective of this lesson is 4 fold.
Students will learn:
1. Practical reasons for measurement,
2. The use of various tools for measurement,
3. How and why those tools might be chosen and/or designed,
4. The need fo ...
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Measurements In The Metric System
Christine Fair Farragut Career Academy
1842 South Kildare Ave. 2345 South Christiana
Chicago, Il. 60623 Chicago, Il. 60623
312-762-5091 312-542-3000
Objectives:
Given teacher guidance the third grade students should be able to:
1. Estimate, then measure to the nearest inch.
2. Estimate, then measure to the nearest centimeter.
Materials:
A worksheet on unmarked rulers
Meter sticks
Scissors ...
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Measurements: Inches
Joyce McCoy Spencer Math & Science Academy
8454 South Kingston Ave. 214 North Lavergne Avenue
Chicago IL 60617 Chicago IL 60644
(312) 768-5950 (312) 534-6150
Objectives:
This lesson is designed for the primary grades.
Solve problems involving measurement using information taken from various items
measured.
Students will be able to measure to the nearest inch.
Students will be able to identify the ...
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Measuring in Inches and Centimeters
Debra Thomas Douglass Math and Science Academy
4853 W. Monroe St. 543 N. Waller St.
Chicago IL 60644 Chicago IL 60644
(312)534-6176
Objective:
To teach 6th grade students how to measure in inches and centimeters.
Materials Needed:
Paper clips, straws, yarn, 1" cubes, centimeter cubes, rulers, tagboard and
scissors.
Strategy:
The students will measure common and ...
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TITLE: SHOPPING
AUTHOR: Cheryl J. Pembroke-Webster
Elementary Special Education; Anchorage, Alaska
OVERVIEW: I use this lesson to give the children a chance to apply what
they have learned about money. I also use it to provide variety and
incentive during review time of other skills.
GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECT: Grades K-2, Math.
PURPOSE: Students are often taught money skills through the ...
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Mathematics
TITLE: TREE MEASUREMENT
AUTHOR: Jeanette Vratil, Lowell Elementary, KS
GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECT: grades 4-6
OVERVIEW: This activity is used to help understand vertical
and horizontal measurement of large objects.
OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate measurement of the trunk, crown, and
height using vertical and horizontal measurement.
2. Compare results with other grou ...
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Mathematics
TITLE: ESTIMATING WITH MONEY
AUTHOR: Louise Murphy, Scott Libby; Litchfield, AZ
GRADE LEVEL: 1-5
OVERVIEW:
Since I am not a classroom teacher it did not make
much "CENTS" to me to do a regular unit. This
mini-unit is to be used with Chapter I Students
(remedial students) in grades one through five. I
thought that it would be beneficial to intertwine the
same theme for all the grades at the sam ...
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Phenomenological Pizza
Robert Foote Disney Magnet School
4022 N. Monticello 4140 N. Marine Drive
Chicago IL 60618 Chicago IL 60613
(312) 604-8825 (312) 534-5844
Objective:
Students will draw a circle using string and a ruler.
Students will determine areas of different size circles.
Students will determine area of a sector of a circle.
Students will find how many two topping pizzas can be made ...
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PROPERTIES OF QUADRILATERALS
Olson, Margaret A. Morgan Park High School
1455 N. Sandburg Terrace #1504 1-312-881-5050
Chicago, Illinois 60610
1-312-787-4284
OBJECTIVES
1. Students will discover the names and definitions of different kinds of
quadrilaterals.
2. Students will discover the properties of quadrilaterals.
3. Students will learn to apply the correct property to each different kind of
quadrilateral.
EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS N ...
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SIMILARITY
Kee, Natalia Harlan Community Academy H.S.
14814 Ridgewood Dr. 1-312-821-2800
Oak Forest, IL 60452
1-708-535-2837
OBJECTIVES
Discover the factor of proportionality in similar polygons and to relate this factor
to the perimeters and areas of similar polygons.
APPARATUS NEEDED
Overhead projector, rulers for each student, protractors for each student, handouts
of printed polygons (these are to be measured by each student).
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THE AREA OF A CIRCLE
Edwina R. Justice Gunsaulus Academy
4420 S. Sacramento St.
Chicago, IL 60632
1-312-523-1061
OBJECTIVE:
To see the relationship between circumference and diameter and how that
relationship, called pi, is used in the formula for the area of a circle.
MATERIALS:
A.Round container lids with varying circumferences
B.Metric tape measures
C.On ...
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The Area of a Circle (Version 2.0)
Edwina R. Justice Gunsaulus Academy
10641 South Lowe Ave. 4420 South Sacramento Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60628 Chicago, Illinois 60632
312-468-3376 312-650-7215
Objectives (Staff):
Demonstrate a phenomenological approach to teaching mathematics.
Inspire others to use the approach.
Objectives (Grade 8):
Review areas of plane figures.
Determine the relationship between the circumf ...
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Travel Triangles
Sarah Barrett Mars Hill School
315 Marengo 5916 West Lake Street
Forest Park IL 60130 Chicago IL 60644
(708)771-0051 (312)287-0019
Objectives:
This presentation can be adapted for intermediate and upper grades.
Students will review and demonstrate an understanding of the three kinds of
angles (by degrees). Triangles and related quadrilaterals will be explored and
their areas found with cut-outs ...
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Use A Chair To Teach Math
Laura B. Reed Rosa L. Parks
14541 Vine 14700 Robey
Harvey, IL 60426 Dixmoor, IL 60426
708-333-3236 708-371-9575
Objective(s):
The student will learn some basic operations of math by measuring a chair.
Materials needed:
Folding chair or desk chair, desk, tape measure, paper, graph paper and a box.
Strategy:
Place a folding chair or desk chair on top of a desk so all students can ...
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Volume and Surface Area
Charlotte Goldwater Kenwood Academy
5015 S Blackstone 5015 S. Blackstone
Chicago IL 60645 Chicago IL 60645
(312) 535-1409 (312) 535-1409
Objective:
The main objective is to understand the difference between surface area and
volume. This activity is appropriate for grades one through twelve.
Materials Needed:
1. Paint brushes
2. Water color paint
3. Boxes of sugar cubes (198 in each box)
4. ...
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What's My Area?
Karen L. Mickel William Carter Elementary School
6800 S. Cornell #3C 5740 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago IL 60649 Chicago IL 60637
(312) 493-1585 (312) 535-0860
Objectives:
To cover an area with uniform tiles and count the number of tiles needed.
To recognize rectangles, triangles and squares.
To review basic colors.
Materials needed:
One inch multi-color square tiles
Rec ...
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