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1.OA.2: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
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Absurd Math is an interactive mathematical problem-solving game series for pre-algebra. The player proceeds on missions in a strange world where the ultimate power consists of mathematical skill and knowledge. Many of the pages have hidden clues and areas. Anytime a player needs help, they may e-mail the staff for assistance. They try to respond within two days. Teachers can e-mail them for answer keys. This activity is great for gamers among our students. You can get them to do the math as they explore this world. To complete this activity, use the Example Web Site (above). To find other math story problems, use the Web site link below.
Don't be tricked by the authorization codes. On the first page, it states the Energy Level times area is the authorization code. You are in area 46 and the energy level is -3. Your students will need to multiply 46 X (-3) to uncover the authorization code. This activity is to challenge your students who already understand the basic concepts.
Program Areas
ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School DiplomaLevels
Intermediate, HighActivity Description
Algebra Lab is an online learning environment that focuses on the high school math topics and skills called upon in introductory science courses. It has an excellent glossary and math topics appropriate for our learners. These include fractions, decimals, exponents, order of operation, and word problems. It provides vocabulary development and practice of language in a context related to math and science. Includes extensive teacher support, lesson plans, practice exercises, comprehension exercise, and more. For this activity, you will be presenting Order of Operations.
Program Areas
ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School Diploma, CTE: Career Technical EducationLevels
Low, Intermediate, High, All LevelsActivity Description
This Web site is filled with tools to assist teachers as they set up their math course as well as students looking for individual help. The site includes class notes, video worksheets, video lectures (using different formats if you cannot access YouTube), homework sets, topic quizzes to assess if students are able to skip the topic, and much more.
This is the Algebra2go Prealgebra course from Saddleback College with all lesson and class resources available for immediate download in one large zip file (1.14GB).
Program Areas
ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School Diploma, ESL: English as a Second Language, CTE: Career Technical EducationLevels
Low, Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, AdvancedActivity Description
In this activity, students watch a short video on Formulas, receive instruction with the help of fact sheets, complete worksheets, and finally take a quiz on the topic. Formula factsheets include:
- Formulas
- What is a formula?
- Understanding terms and expressions
- Understanding formulas
- Working with formulas
Downloadable Worksheets include:
- Matching problems with calculations
- Missing numbers
- Solving problems
- Changing word problems into symbols and numbers
- Identifying formulas
- Identifying number patterns
- Identifying sequences
- Using a formula to find a value
- Writing formulas in words
Program Areas
ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School DiplomaLevels
Intermediate, HighActivity Description
GCF LearnFree provides help with basic math in the areas of subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, and percents. With an emphasis on images and interactives, their math tutorials make learning math easier. The tutorials are designed to be like a math workbook, so learners can practice what they learn directly within the lessons and learn at their own pace.
Program Areas
ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency PreparationLevels
Low, IntermediateActivity Description
Use this site to teach students to read and understand fast food nutrition facts. The site allows users to search and compare the nutrition facts of popular fast-food restaurant menu items. Use the attached Word document for student to enter comparison data.
Program Areas
ESL: English as a Second Language, ABE: Adult Basic EducationLevels
Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced, All LevelsActivity Description
In this activity, students learn the components of a balance sheet by working through many problems to strengthen their understanding. Students complete a balance sheet for business by entering the names of the accounts and calculating total assets, liabilities, and net worth. Students then make predictions on how the balance sheet changes when there are changes to assets and liabilities.
EconEdLink has financial literacy lessons written for K–12. They also provide access to the latest economic news and information. Choose Current Events on the "educator" menu to learn more about what is happening in the world of economics and access related lesson plans. Links to economic data resources can also be found on the "educator" menu. Take time to look this one over, including both the educator section and the student section.
Program Areas
ASE: High School Diploma, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency PreparationLevels
HighActivity Description
EdReady is a personalized math and English readiness learning system that evaluates the skills of each student in the context of their goal and then provides a learning pathway to mastery. EdReady supports and accelerates math and English readiness.
This activity takes you through the steps to set up your own EdReady account and how you can use it with your students.
OTAN supports agencies wanting to try EdReady with their students. They will set up teacher accounts and needed student pathways. Students are assigned a “Goal key” that ensures the student is working in their teacher’s account. Teachers can track student progress and time on task.
For more information about EdReady, please see the Web-based article titled, “Accelerate Learning with EdReady”.
Program Areas
ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ABE: Adult Basic EducationLevels
Activity Description
The Interactivate site actually has three different activities using the skill of estimating. This activity allows the user to practice estimating the results of addition, multiplication, and percentage problems. Questions are categorized by a combination of level (which determines the difficulty) and by types of problems listed. The math involved is addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Program Areas
ASE: High School Equivalency PreparationLevels
Activity Description
This activity allows two users to play a game of order of operations where each player tries to connect four game pieces in a row before his or her opponent does. The players can choose to answer problems that use addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, exponents, and parentheses. They can also choose the difficulty level. This activity would work well in groups of 2 for about 15-20 minutes.
Program Areas
ASE: High School Equivalency PreparationLevels
Activity Description
Project Interactivate is mathematics courseware containing more than 29+ classroom-tested interactive activities and tools. Suggested lesson plans and discussions based on various concepts contained in the activities help support standards-based approaches to mathematics education.
Students can also use the site to learn fractions, do comparisons, create Venn Diagrams and practice other mathematics concepts. Great for the visual learner.
This activity allows students to practice solving algebraic equations using the additive inverse and multiplicative inverse properties. As the user solves the problem, the activity tracks each step, noting the property that was used and the number of steps used to solve the equation. There are three different levels of difficulty.
Program Areas
ASE: High School Equivalency PreparationLevels
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