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Air: The Math Link ActivityAir: The Math Link Activity
Publisher
Baylor College
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Grade
1st - 3rd
Subjects
Math
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
30 mins
Instructional Strategies
Independent Practice
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Year
2010
Activity

Air: The Math Link

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This Air: The Math Link activity also includes:
  • Mr. Slaptail's Secret
  • The Reading Link
  • The Science of Air - Teacher's Guide
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Inflate this unit on the science of air with these math skills practice and word problems. Accompanying the children's story Mr. Slaptail's Secret, this resource covers a wide range of math topics including the four basic operations, identifying fractions, reading time, estimating mass, and analyzing bar graphs. Offer these worksheets as an option for earlier finishers or pick and choose relevant worksheets to supplement into regular math lessons.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

addition, bar graphs, graphs, division, fractions, multiplication, number order, numbers, subtraction

Additional Tags

addition, subtraction, bar graph, comparing numbers, multiplication, division, fractions, math

Pros

  • Supports learners with blank number sentences, including the operations necessary for solving word problems and answering questions about bar graphs
  • Uses pictures to support an understanding of fractions, multiplication, and division
  • Allows for interdisciplinary connections between science, language arts, and math
  • The children's book Mr. Slaptail's Secret is available online, free of charge

Cons

  • The fractions in the word problems on pages four and five are difficult to read
  • The directions on page eight requires teacher clarification

Common Core

1.OA.A.1 1.OA.B.4 1.OA.C.6 1.OA.D.8 1.NBT.B.3 1.NBT.C.4 1.MD.B.3 2.OA.A.1 2.OA.B.2 2.NBT.B.5 2.MD.C.7 3.OA.A.2 3.OA.A.3 3.OA.C.7 3.NBT.A.2 3.NF.A.1 3.MD.A.1 3.MD.A.2 3.MD.B.3 MP2 MP4 MP7

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