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Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 3: Geometric Probability and More

Help students build their skills in the areas of geometric probability, characterizing data, data displays, and matrices.

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Grade 5 Math Activity: In the Chef's Kitchen

Help children in Grade 5 strengthen their ability to use operations with whole numbers and sharpen their measurement skills with this activity.

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Grado 1 actividades de matematicas: Mis cuentos de animales

Este proyecto usa el contexto de los animales para ampliar el conocimiento de los números hasta el 10.

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Kindergarten actividad de matemáticas: Mi cuento de números

El recurso de instrucción que se muestra a continuación está diseñado para ayudar a los estudiantes a ampliar el conocimiento de los números.

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Grades 6–8 Math Activity Set 2: Financial Literacy

Put students in Grades 6-8 on the path to making knowledgeable purchasing decisions with these free activities ideal for at-home learning.​

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Teach Kids About Flattening the Curve on Coronavirus—with Activities

Population health researcher Drew Harris explains a simple chart that shows how staying home can slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 2: Counting Techniques and More

Download math lessons for high school students focusing on probability, mutually exclusive and overlapping events, and recognizing independent and dependent events.

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Grades 6-8 Math Activity Set 1: Financial Literacy

Download financial literacy activities for middle school students and teach them about topics including wages, salaries, and careers.

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How to Teach Financial Literacy to Kids in Uncertain Economic Times

Economics professor Annamaria Lusardi shares insights on how to teach financial literacy in challenging times.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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Grade 2 Math Activities: Animals

Using stories to teach children math is a fun way for them to learn math vocabulary.

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Keep Class in Session at Home: Tips From ICLE Partner Weston Kieschnick

With schools closed, ICLE's Weston Kieschnick offers tips to keep the academic momentum going and ideas on what to focus on as children learn at home.

Weston Kieschnick
Associate Partner, ICLE

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Boolean Algebra and Getting Logical in the Math Classroom

Learn the basic ideas of what Boolean algebra is, along with some history and examples. Use the free activity to have high school students practice evaluating logical Boolean expressions.

Fernando J. Castillo

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Benjamin Banneker’s Prime Observation

Benjamin Banneker was an important mathematician in history, in part for being an early African American intellectual who studied astronomy, clocks, nature, and mathematics, among other things.

Richard Blankman
Shaped Executive Editor

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Stuck on a Math Problem? Try Solving It Another Way

Inform your students that math problems rarely have a single method for solving them and frequently have multiple solutions.

Richard Blankman
Shaped Executive Editor

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A Year in Review: Most-Read Shaped Blogs of 2019

In this selection of the most-read blog posts of 2019, we hear from middle school teachers, literacy and math experts, and a parent.

Christine Condon
Shaped Editor-in-Chief

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3 Kindergarten Math Games and Activities for the Classroom

These math activities for kindergarten focus on addition and counting. Use these kindergarten math games for the classroom to show how mathematics is found everywhere in students' world.

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Celebrate STEM Using Hands-On Experiments and Science Stories

On November 8 (and every day), try these quick, simple and easy STEM Day activities for elementary students—created by the Kitchen Pantry Scientist and author of STEAM project books, Liz Heinecke.

Liz Lee Heinecke
STEAM Author; The Kitchen Pantry Scientist