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What Are Open Middle Math Problems?

Find out what are Open Middle math problems, along with why to use them and resources to find them.

Robert Kaplinsky
Mathematics Educator, Long Beach, CA

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Making Math Fun: 7 Small-Group Math Activities and Lessons

Try these 7 small-group math activities and lessons to make math learning fun and improve student outcomes

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7 Research-Based Math Interventions for Elementary Students

Try these research-based math interventions for elementary students to help raise math achievement for students struggling in math.

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

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

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Grades 9–12 Math Activity Set 1: Precision, Accuracy, and More

Teach high school students about precision and accuracy, significant digits, and errors in measurement with these downloadable activities.

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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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Grades 6–8 Math Activity Set 4: Sweet Success and More

Help students build their skills in working with fractions, decimals, ratios, and percent.

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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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Reinventing Mathematics Intervention

In this article are six features that, when taken together, constitute a reinvention of intervention in the math classroom.

Dr. Juli K. Dixon
Professor Emerita of Mathematics Education; Elementary, Middle, Secondary, and Post-Secondary Mathematics Education

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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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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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Grades 6–8 Math Activity Set 3: Financial Literacy

Help students learn about how to plan for the future, with a focus on creating a personal budget and constructing a net worth statement.

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Grade 2 Math Activity Set: By the Sea and A Bunch of Animals

Help your children in Grade 2 understand multidigit numbers and hone their addition and subtraction skills with free animal-based activities.

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Grade 3 Math Activity: In Our Corner of Space

Use this grade 3 math activity to help students learn about the math of our system system.

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Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set: 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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Grade 3 Math Activity Set: Inventing Toys and Coins in the U.S.

Help children in Grade 3 understand the role that mathematics plays in running a business, and how fractions apply to the U.S. monetary system.

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Free Math Activities for Middle School

Try these free middle school math activities that cover budgeting, taxes, social media engagement, coding, and many more topics.

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Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 5: Conducting Surveys and More

Students will learn about conducting surveys, experiments, and observational studies, as well as frequency distributions, weighted averages, and expected values.

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