Math Can Take You Places

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Transport students into the heart of mathematics by combining real-world application with fast-paced classroom footage. Students see patterning, equivalency, reasonableness, measurement, and problem solving through the eyes of five different professionals. A production of KERA, the Public TV station of Dallas; produced, written, and directed by the Peabody Award-winning Rob Mikuriya (The Eddie Files), Math Can Take You Places emphasizes algebra readiness skills at the upper elementary level.

This series is accompanied by a comprehensive curriculum package including 25 lesson plans, student games, activities, a Web site, and more. Each video is also available in Spanish with modified lesson plans that include ESL teaching strategies.

• Measurement (The Long and Tall of It) (9:44)
• Equivalency (Time Flies) (11:11)
• Domain/Range/Reasonableness (Amazing Amusement) (10:59)
• Problem Solving (All Aboard!) (9:36)
• Patterns (What's Cooking?) (8:53)

• Using Manipulatives
• Mathematics in Everyday Life
• Incorporating the Internet
• Teaching Algebraically
• Incorporating Video

Download our free Lessons ALIVE! lesson plan—Secret Formulas: Calculating the Perimeter and Area of Rectangles and Squares—to use with this program.

Five 10-minute programs
Five 5-minute professional development programs
Grades 3–6
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