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Video Clips: Measurement & Data

Results: 12 Videos

Attend to Precision: Fractions and Geoboards
Attend to Precision: Fractions and Geoboards

Working with geoboards helps students reach a better mathematical understanding of the concept of "half." View Video

Construct Arguments: Ladybug Counting
Construct Arguments: Ladybug Counting

Students observe ladybugs and collect data in order to answer quantitative questions. View Video

Modeling: Story-Based Centers
Modeling: Story-Based Centers

A teacher uses one story to create eight story-based centers—places where students explore different aspects of the story, especially as it pertains to mathematical learning. View Video

Problem Solving: Bubble Gum Contest
Problem Solving: Bubble Gum Contest

Students work on an activity where they gather data for a bubble gum contest. View Video

Problem Solving: Pencil Box Staining
Problem Solving: Pencil Box Staining

Students work on a project to build and stain wooden pencil boxes. This involves measuring and calculating the surface area of geometric shapes. View Video

Reasoning: Beans, Beans, Beans
Reasoning: Beans, Beans, Beans

Students use abstract and quantitative reasoning to estimate how many beans are in a bag. View Video

Reasoning: Cranberry Estimation
Reasoning: Cranberry Estimation

In this estimation lesson, students are asked to predict and record how many scoops of cranberries fit into a jar. View Video

Reasoning: Dice Toss
Reasoning: Dice Toss

Students use abstract and quantitative reasoning to predict dice rolling. View Video

Reasoning: What's the Price?
Reasoning: What's the Price?

Students use various problem-solving strategies to understand the cost of household items, as well as the partitive model of division. View Video

Strategic Tool Use: Domino Math
Strategic Tool Use: Domino Math

Students explore properties of addition using both real dominos and dominos that they make out of paper. Both 3-D and 2-D tools provide concrete representations of the lesson's mathematical ideas. View Video

Strategic Tool Use: Pencil Box Staining
Strategic Tool Use: Pencil Box Staining

In this project, students work to build and stain wooden pencil boxes. This involves selecting the right tools to measure and calculate the surface area of geometric shapes. View Video

Strategic Tool Use: Windows, Dinos, and Ants
Strategic Tool Use: Windows, Dinos, and Ants

First-graders solve real-world measurement problems using standard and non-standard measuring tools. View Video


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