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Tools for the Common Core A blog by Bill McCallum (one of the Common Core writers) that gives news about the standards and has a discussion forum. This is a good place to look for questions about the standards.

=Surface Area and Volume=

= = Workshop Activities Building a Box This lesson from Illuminations uses a real-world situation to help develop students' spatial visualization skills and geometric understanding. Emma, a new employee at a box factory, is supposed to make cube‑shaped jewelry boxes. Students help Emma determine how many different nets are possible and then analyze the resulting cubes.

Cube Nets Tool Gives a sheet of possible nets. Click on the net to see if it will work.

Patch Tool This tool can be used by students to make nets to form three- dimensional boxes made of squares, triangles, and other shapes.

North Carolina's 7th Grade Lessons for Learning This is a PDF file with several lessons for each grade. Click here for an list of lessons and standards.
 * Changing Surface Areas
 * Packing for Perfection

CMP Unit - Filling and Wrapping

Additional Activities Dan Meyer's Three Act Math Tasks Illustrative Mathematics Illuminations Shodor Interactivate
 * Coffee Traveler
 * Holes
 * Popcorn Picker
 * Sand Under the Swing Set
 * Finding Surface Area and Volume
 * Fishing for the Best Prism
 * Popcorn, Anyone?
 * Hay Bale Farmer
 * Patterns and Functions
 * Surface Area and Volume
 * Surface Area of Prisms
 * Probability and Geometry
 * Volume of Prisms
 * Volume of Rectangular Prisms

=Statistics=

= = Workshop Activities

Estimating: Counting Trees This lesson unit from MARS is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve simple problems involving ratio and direct proportion, choose an appropriate sampling method, and collect discrete data and record them using a frequency table.

North Carolina's Lessons for Learning 6th Grade This is a PDF file with several lessons for each grade. Click here for an list of lessons and standards.
 * How MAD Are You?
 * Shakespeare vs. Rowling

Offensive Linemen In this task from Illustrative Mathematics, students are able to conjecture about the differences and similarities in the two groups from a strictly visual perspective and then support their comparisons with appropriate measures of center and variability.

North Carolina's 7th Grade Lessons for Learning This is a PDF file with several lessons for each grade. Click here for an list of lessons and standards.
 * X Marks the Spot

Additional Activities Illuminations Illustrative Mathematics Dan Meyer
 * About Our Class
 * Capture-Recapture
 * How Much is a Million
 * Valentines Marbles 7.SP.2
 * College Athletes 7.SP.3,4
 * Yellow Starbursts 7.SP.2, 6

=Probability=

= = Workshop Activities

Evaluating Statements About Probability This lesson unit from MARS addresses common misconceptions relating to probability of simple and compound events. The lesson will help you assess how well students understand concepts of equally likely events, randomness, and sample sizes.

CMP Unit - What Do You Expect? ||
 * What's in the Bucket || [[file:1.1 What's in the Bucket.docx]] ||
 * Match/No-Match || [[file:WDE Labsheet 1.1.pdf]][[file:1.2 Follow Up 3 Chart.doc]] ||
 * Making Purple || [[file:WDE Labsheet 2.1.pdf]][[file:1.3 Problem B Chart.doc]]
 * One-and-one Free Throws || [[file:WDE Labsheet 3.2.pdf]] ||

=Fractions=

= = 3-5 Progression on Number and Operations - Fractions