Marco Polo Mathematics Lesson Plans

Marco Polo Mathematics Lesson Plans

These Lesson Plans are cross curricular in nature but are based on the following NJCCC Standards for Mathematics

Mathematics Standards - Grades K-4

4.1. Number and Numerical Operations: ALL STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP NUMBER SENSE AND WILL PERFORM STANDARD NUMERICAL OPERATIONS AND ESTIMATIONS ON ALL TYPES OF NUMBERS IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.

4.2. Geometry and Measurement: ALL STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP SPATIAL SENSE AND THE ABILITY TO USE GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES, RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEASUREMENT TO MODEL, DESCRIBE AND ANALYZE PHENOMENA.

4.3. Patterns and Algebra: ALL STUDENTS WILL REPRESENT AND ANALYZE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VARIABLE QUANTITIES AND SOLVE PROBLEMS INVOLVING PATTERNS, FUNCTIONS, AND ALGEBRAIC CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES.

4.4. Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics: ALL STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES OF DATA ANALYSIS, PROBABILITY, AND DISCRETE MATHEMATICS, AND WILL USE THEM TO MODEL SITUATIONS, SOLVE PROBLEMS, AND ANALYZE AND DRAW APPROPRIATE INFERENCES FROM DATA.

4.5. Mathematical Processes: ALL STUDENTS WILL USE MATHEMATICAL PROCESSES OF PROBLEM SOLVING, COMMUNICATION, CONNECTIONS, REASONING, REPRESENTATIONS, AND TECHNOLOGY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND COMMUNICATE MATHEMATICAL IDEAS.

Sample Lesson

Standard 4.1: Number and Numerical Operations: ALL STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP NUMBER SENSE AND WILL PERFORM STANDARD NUMERICAL OPERATIONS AND ESTIMATIONS ON ALL TYPES OF NUMBERS IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.

4.1 Collecting, Representing, and Interpreting Data Using Spreadsheets and Graphing Software: Collecting and Examining Weather Data

4.1 Ready, Set, Let's Dough! It's a Matter of System

4.1 Numbers and Language

4.1 Make a Wampum Belt

4.1 Eye to Eye

4.1 Shape Hunt

4.1 Working with Numerical Data

4.1 Lily's Purple Plastic Purse: Jingley Coins

4.1 Mathematics and Environmental Concerns - Grades Pre K-2

4.1 Mathematics at the Mall

4.1 A Tale of Two Stories

4.1 Numbers and Language

4.1 Shape Hunt

4.1 Mathematics and Environmental Concerns - Grades Pre K-2

4.1 Working with Numerical Data

4.1 The Emperor's New Clothes: Cut it Out

4.1 Mathematics at the Mall

4.1 What Do Other People Want To Be?

4.1 Mathematics and Children's Literature, Grades Pre-K-2

4.1

Working with Numerical Data

4.1

The Abacus

4.1

Eye to Eye

4.1

Live from Antiquity

4.1

Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood

4.1

Sampling Rocks

4.1

The Story of Jack and the Bank Stalk

4.1

Where I Come From

4.1

What's in a Shape?

4.1

Explaining How Things Work

4.1

Working with Categorical Data

4.1

Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns to Recognize Relationships and Make Predictions: Part 1 - Making Patterns

4.1

Lily's Purple Plastic Purse: Jingley Coins

4.1

What Do Other People Want To Be?

4.1

Ready, Set, Let's Dough! It's a Matter of System

4.1

Sorting

4.1

Application

4.1

Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood

4.1

Mathematics at the Mall

4.1

Working with Numerical Data

4.1

Where I Come From

4.1

Explaining How Things Work

4.1

Planning for a City's Future

4.1

What's Up With the Weather?

4.1

It Counts

4.1

Changes in Change

4.1

Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood

4.1

Eye to Eye

4.1

Sampling Rocks

4.1

Sorting

4.1

What's in a Shape?

4.1

Explaining How Things Work

4.1

Developing Geometry Concepts Using Computer Programming Environments

4.1

Mathematics at the Mall

4.1

IMathematics and Football - Grades K-1

4.1

What Do Other People Want To Be?

4.1

Application

4.1 Mathematics and Children's Literature, Grades Pre-K-2

Back to Standards

Standard 4.2: Geometry and Measurement: ALL STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP SPATIAL SENSE AND THE ABILITY TO USE GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES, RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEASUREMENT TO MODEL, DESCRIBE AND ANALYZE PHENOMENA.

4.2	Exploring Geometric Solids and Their Properties
4.2	Exploring Properties of Rectangles and Parallelograms Using Dynamic Software
4.2	A Tribute to Miro
4.2	Introduction to Latitude and Longitude
4.2	Sorting
4.2	Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
4.2	I've Seen That Shape Before
4.2	Shape Hunt
4.2	Where I Come From
4.2	What's in a Shape?
4.2	Explaining How Things Work
4.2	Working with Categorical Data
4.2	Symmetrical Kites
4.2	Triangles
4.2	Mathematics and Environmental Concerns - Grades Pre K-2
4.2	Developing Geometry Concepts Using Computer Programming Environments
4.2	Mathematics and Children's Literature, Grades Pre-K-2
4.2	Introduction to Latitude and Longitude
4.2	It Counts
4.2	Distance: The Great Silk Route
4.2	Ready, Set, Let's Dough! It's a Matter of System
4.2	Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
4.2	Changes in Change
4.2	Eye to Eye
4.2	Sampling Rocks
4.2	What's in a Shape?
4.2	Lily's Purple Plastic Purse: Jingley Coins
4.2	Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns to Recognize Relationships and Make Predictions: Part 1 - Making Patterns
4.2	Light in the Storm: Patterns of a Lighthouse
4.2	Mathematics and Football - Grades K-1
4.2	Developing Geometry Concepts Using Computer Programming Environments
4.2	Defining Regions of the United States
4.2	Uses of Numbers: Pre-K to 2
4.2	Triangles
4.2	It Counts
4.2	Developing Geometric Understandings and Spatial Skills through Tangram Puzzles
4.2	Sampling Rocks
4.2	Live from Antiquity
4.2	Uncertainty
4.2	Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns to Recognize Relationships and Make Predictions: Part 1 - Making Patterns
4.2	Lily's Purple Plastic Purse: All Things Purple
4.2	Fair Division
4.2	Application
4.2	Explaining How Things Work
4.2	What Do Other People Want To Be?
4.7	Mathematics and Football - Grades K-1

Back to Standards

Standard 4.3: Patterns and Algebra: ALL STUDENTS WILL REPRESENT AND ANALYZE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VARIABLE QUANTITIES AND SOLVE PROBLEMS INVOLVING PATTERNS, FUNCTIONS, AND ALGEBRAIC CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES.

4.3	Introduction to Latitude and Longitude
4.3	Distance: The Great Silk Route
4.3	Numbers and Language
4.3	Changes in Change
4.3	Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
4.3	Developing Geometric Understandings and Spatial Skills through Tangram Puzzles
4.3	Sampling Rocks
4.3	Sorting
4.3	Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns to Recognize Relationships and Make Predictions: Part 1 - Making Patterns
4.3	Explaining How Things Work
4.3	Lily's Purple Plastic Purse: All Things Purple
4.3	Light in the Storm: Patterns of a Lighthouse
4.3	Symmetrical Kites
4.3	Planning for a City's Future
4.3	Fair Division
4.3	Failure: The Good and the Bad
4.3	Live from Antiquity
4.3	Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
4.3	Short But Sweet: Writing News Summaries: A Lesson for the Language Arts Classroom
4.3	Light in the Storm: Patterns of a Lighthouse
4.3	Application
4.3	Uses of Numbers: Pre-K to 2
4.3	Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns to Recognize Relationships and Make Predictions: Part 1 - Making Patterns
4.3	What's Up With the Weather?
4.3	Fair Division
4.3	Explaining How Things Work
4.3	Application

Back to Standards

Standard 4.4: Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics: ALL STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES OF DATA ANALYSIS, PROBABILITY, AND DISCRETE MATHEMATICS, AND WILL USE THEM TO MODEL SITUATIONS, SOLVE PROBLEMS, AND ANALYZE AND DRAW APPROPRIATE INFERENCES FROM DATA.

4.4	The Abacus
4.4	Ready, Set, Let's Dough! It's a Matter of System
4.4	Numbers and Language
4.4	Introduction to Latitude and Longitude
4.4	Changes in Change
4.4	Eye to Eye
4.4	I've Seen That Shape Before
4.4	Shape Hunt
4.4	The Story of Jack and the Bank Stalk
4.4	Make a Wampum Belt
4.4	Working with Categorical Data
4.4	Working with Numerical Data
4.4	The Emperor's New Clothes: Cut it Out
4.4	Lily's Purple Plastic Purse: Jingley Coins
4.4	Exploring Geometric Solids and Their Properties
4.4	Mathematics and Environmental Concerns - Grades Pre K-2
4.4	Mathematics at the Mall
4.4	A Tribute to Miro
4.4	Distance: The Great Silk Route
4.4	It Counts
4.4	Collecting, Representing, and Interpreting Data Using Spreadsheets and Graphing Software: Collecting and Examining Weather Data
4.4	Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
4.4	Sampling Rocks
4.4	Uncertainty
4.4	Where I Come From
4.4	Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns to Recognize Relationships and Make Predictions: Part 1 - Making Patterns
4.4	Explaining How Things Work
4.4	Lily's Purple Plastic Purse: All Things Purple
4.4	Fair Division
4.4	Developing Geometric Understandings and Spatial Skills through Tangram Puzzles
4.4	What's Up With the Weather?

4.1	Collecting, Representing, and Interpreting Data Using Spreadsheets and Graphing Software: Collecting and Examining Weather Data
4.1	Ready, Set, Let's Dough! It's a Matter of System
4.1	Numbers and Language
4.1	Make a Wampum Belt
4.1	Eye to Eye
4.1	Shape Hunt
4.1	Working with Numerical Data
4.1	Lily's Purple Plastic Purse: Jingley Coins
4.1	Mathematics and Environmental Concerns - Grades Pre K-2
4.1	Mathematics at the Mall
4.1	A Tale of Two Stories
4.1	Numbers and Language
4.1	Shape Hunt
4.1	Mathematics and Environmental Concerns - Grades Pre K-2
4.1	Working with Numerical Data
4.1	The Emperor's New Clothes: Cut it Out
4.1	Mathematics at the Mall
4.1	What Do Other People Want To Be?
4.1	Mathematics and Children's Literature, Grades Pre-K-2
4.1	Working with Numerical Data
4.1	The Abacus
4.1	Eye to Eye
4.1	Live from Antiquity
4.1	Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
4.1	Sampling Rocks
4.1	The Story of Jack and the Bank Stalk
4.1	Where I Come From
4.1	What's in a Shape?
4.1	Explaining How Things Work
4.1	Working with Categorical Data
4.1	Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns to Recognize Relationships and Make Predictions: Part 1 - Making Patterns
4.1	Lily's Purple Plastic Purse: Jingley Coins
4.1	What Do Other People Want To Be?
4.1	Ready, Set, Let's Dough! It's a Matter of System
4.1	Sorting
4.1	Application
4.1	Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
4.1	Mathematics at the Mall
4.1	Working with Numerical Data
4.1	Where I Come From
4.1	Explaining How Things Work
4.1	Planning for a City's Future
4.1	What's Up With the Weather?
4.1	It Counts
4.1	Changes in Change
4.1	Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
4.1	Eye to Eye
4.1	Sampling Rocks
4.1	Sorting
4.1	What's in a Shape?
4.1	Explaining How Things Work
4.1	Developing Geometry Concepts Using Computer Programming Environments
4.1	Mathematics at the Mall
4.1	IMathematics and Football - Grades K-1
4.1	What Do Other People Want To Be?
4.1	Application
4.1	Mathematics and Children's Literature, Grades Pre-K-2