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TEKS Math Standard: 1.2.F

order whole numbers up to 120 using place value and open number lines

Factors and Codes: First Names (Episode 2)
Factors and Codes: First Names (Episode 2)
Scrambled up somewhere in 161,000 is a first name. Can you find it!?
Gr 3, 4, 6, 7
How Many Will There Be? Earthworm
How Many Will There Be? Earthworm
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
Gr 3-5
How Many Will There Be? Desks
How Many Will There Be? Desks
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
Gr 2-5
Math Curiosity: Ulam Spiral
Math Curiosity: Ulam Spiral
What if we make a huge spiral of numbers and then highlight only the primes? Well, a bunch of weird patterns show up!
Gr 1-4
What If There Were No Hundreds Place?
What If There Were No Hundreds Place?
Imagine a world with no hundreds place. We’d have to call it ten tens instead. But then, what would we call the thousands place? How would we read 9999? What if we added one more?
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
Fraction Ordering Tournament
Fraction Ordering Tournament
Which set of fractions would be the trickiest to order from least to greatest? Let’s have a tournament!
Gr 2-8
Rounding Numbers (But Not To 10)
Rounding Numbers (But Not To 10)
What could we possibly do to make rounding more interesting for students who already get it? In this series, students consider how they might round to values other than “the nearest 10.” How, for example, do we round to the nearest 9? 7? 15?
Gr 3, 4, 7
Math Curiosity: Four Squares
Math Curiosity: Four Squares
Every positive integer can be written as the sum of (at most) four perfect squares!
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 8
Math Curiosity: Finding Primes
Math Curiosity: Finding Primes
Prime numbers are unpredictable! How can we possibly find them all? An Ancient Greek mathematician found one way!
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Math Curiosity: Palindromic Number Conjecture
Math Curiosity: Palindromic Number Conjecture
Using this one weird trick, it seems that you can turn any number into a palindrome!
Gr 1-5