Elementary
Sorting it Out
This group activity from PBS KIDS Lab encourages students to observe carefully, analyze and make comparisons and predictions based on data they gather. (Grades: PreK-K)
Counting by Tens Song — Peg + Cat
In this clip that corresponds to the activity Chicken Feed, Ramone and Peg sing a song about counting by 10's while they save the chickens from Big Mouth. (Grades: PreK-2)
Do You See My Seahorse? The Cat in the Hat
Use this Cat in the Hat game to help children recognize numbers and count and add groups of objects. (Grades: PreK-2)
Pattern Recognition — Cyberchase Games
Identify the patterns using addition, subtraction, and geometry to solve the puzzle and crack Hacker's code. (Grades: 1-4)
Balancing Nature: Science Crafts for Kids — Peg + Cat
Make a balancing scale with your child at home to compare the weights of objects found in nature. (Grades: PreK-3)
The Really Big Shoe Sale
Use what you know about percents, ratios, and proportions to figure out the sale price in this real world application of math. (Grades: 4-6)
Is There a Problem? — Cyberchase
Students learn that drinking plenty of water is important for good health but the plastic water bottles they drink from can lead to trash problems. (Grades: 3-5)
Peg Finds Her Marble — Peg + Cat
When Peg's marble accidentally flies into one of many identical bowls of spice, Cleopatra shows her how to use a pan balance to see which bowl contains her marble. (Grades: PreK-1)
Race to the Top Floor
In this video from Let's Learn, Lily Fincher and Omar Etman play a board game that involves counting to get to the top floor of a building. (Grades: PreK-2)
Cupcake Math — Super Why
Cooking with children is a great way to teach them about measurement and help them learn the language of math. (Grades: PreK-K)
Exploring Number Patterns to Discover Common Factors
Students explore different repeating patterns to predict when two or more events will occur at the same time. (Grades: 3-6)
Pienado! Odd Squad
This game from Odd Squad will help children with identifying two-dimensional shapes, such as rectangles, squares and triangles, and combining shapes to fit a pattern. (Grades: 1-3)
Agent Obfusco's Challenges — Odd Squad
Olive and Otto have to solve a series of challenges to keep their Odd Squad badges. (Grades: K-3)
Bathtub Splash — Peg + Cat
How many buckets of water will it take to fill the tub for Peg and Cat? First, make an estimate. Don’t worry, it’s just a guess. Then let’s try it to find out! (Grades: K-2)
How Does your Garden Grow? — Cyberchase
In this media-rich activity from Cyberchase, students review the elements that are needed to make a garden grow. (Grades: 3-5)
Harry's Job at the Candy Store
In this video from Cyberchase, Harry gets a job at a candy store. Customers who come into the store use fractions to order boxes of different types of chocolates. (Grades: 4-5)
Non-Standard Measurement — Sid the Science Kid
This video will help children learn about non-standard measurement. Students use the length of their bodies to measure the size of their classroom. (Grades: PreK-2)
Enough with the Sea Shells — Sid the Science Kid
In this episode of Sid the Science Kid, Sid uses a new strategy called estimation for making his best guess how many seashells he has. (Grades: PreK-1)
QuizBus: Dealing with Data
Students practice collecting data, presenting it in an understandable fashion, analyzing the data through graphing. (Grades 3-8)
Rounding to the Tenths Place
This interactive exercise focuses on using what you know about number lines and rounding to the tenths place. (Grades: 4-5)
Balancing Number Sentences to Introduce Missing Values
Students learn that equations are balanced when the same number is on each side. (Grades: 3-6)
New Age Curriculum Songs | Media Arts Toolkit
The New Age Curriculum project uses the idea of songwriting and recording to help students understand math concepts. (Grades: K-13+)
How Clocks Work
Students are introduced to the elements necessary to keep track of time, and they are also exposed to a variety of time pieces. (Grades: 2-5)
Two Quarts of Blob — Odd Squad
This video will help children with measuring liquids in quarts and gallons. When agents capture pieces of the Blob, they visit the Mathroom to see who has more. (Grades: K-3)
The Whale Episode — Sid the Science Kid
Sid has a new ruler and wants to measure the biggest animal in the world: the Blue Whale! How can he use a little ruler to measure something so big? (Grades: PreK-1)
Deep Sea Follow Me — The Cat in the Hat
This Cat in the Hat game helps children to describe, name, and interpret relative positions in space using position words such as under, over, next to and behind. (Grades: PreK-2)
Highlight Zone — Peg + Cat
Peg and Cat have to spot ten differences in the Highlight Zone to get things back to normal. (Grades: PreK-K)
Horizontal and Vertical Distances on the Cartesian Graph
In this interactive, students use logic and mathematical skill to place aquatic animals at locations on a Cartesian graph with cardinal directions. (Grades: 5-6)
Explore the Relationship Among Fractions & Decimals
This series of videos explores the relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents, which can be used to represent the same values in different ways. (Grades: 4-5)
Ruff Ruffman's Monumental Mini Golf
Ruff is on a mission to build the tallest, longest, and heaviest mini-golf course in the world and he needs help! (Grades: 1-3)
Climate Change Projections
The Colorado River streamflow is projected to decrease over the course of this century. The estimates range from about 5% to 15%. (Grades: 4-12)
Measuring is Fun — Everyday Learning
How many books high is the chair? How many teddy bears to reach the top of the rocking horse? Early learners practice non-traditional forms of measurement. (Grades: PreK)
Brachio-Balance — Dinosaur Train
A spin on the classic Tug-o-War game, two teams of dinos play tug-o-war over a mud-filled pit. (Grades: K-5)
Middle School
QuizBus: Dealing with Data
Students practice collecting data, presenting it in an understandable fashion, analyzing the data through graphing. (Grades 3-8)
Making Stuff Faster: The Math behind Package Delivery — Nova
Learn how UPS, a global package delivery company, has developed an algorithm to schedule routes for its delivery trucks in this video from NOVA: Making Stuff Faster. (Grades: 6-12)
Random Sampling: How Many Fish?
Experiment with random sampling methodology using goldfish crackers. (Grades: 6-7)
Equivalent Expressions Using Exponents
Apply your critical thinking skills to learn about multiplication and division of exponents. (Grades: 8-9)
Order of Operations: Flocabulary's PEMDAS Lesson
Watch and listen to a recitation of the order of operations set to hip-hop music. (Grades: 5-6)
Plotting Pairs of Coordinate Points — Cyberchase
Students learn about and practice graphing, plotting points, drawing line segments, and finding the coordinates of points of intersection. (Grades: 5-8)
Zombies and Calculus, Part 1
Learn about the math behind predator-prey population cycles in this video from NOVA Digital. (Grades: 6-12)
Zombies and Calculus, Part 2
In this hypothetical world, zombies always move straight toward humans. This means that the tangent vector of a zombie's path points at the intended target. (Grades: 6-12)
Climate Change Projections
The Colorado River streamflow is projected to decrease over the course of this century. The estimates range from about 5% to 15%. (Grades: 4-12)
Can You Solve This Pier Puzzle?
This math brainteaser challenges you to find a simple, elegant solution to a seemingly complex problem! Can you figure it out? (Grades: 6-12)
Balancing Number Sentences to Introduce Missing Values
Students learn that equations are balanced when the same number is on each side. (Grades: 3-6)
New Age Curriculum Songs | Media Arts Toolkit
The New Age Curriculum project uses the idea of songwriting and recording to help students understand math concepts. (Grades: K-13+)
Reroofing Your Uncle's House
Predict the correct amount of roofing material needed to reroof a house while learning about the importance of proper planning. (Grades: 6-12)
Beat the Odds
This interactive exercise focuses on calculating the probabilities of random events and playing a game where you bet virtual money on the outcome of random events. (Grades: 6-7)
Horizontal and Vertical Distances on the Cartesian Graph
In this interactive, students use logic and mathematical skill to place aquatic animals at locations on a Cartesian graph with cardinal directions. (Grades: 5-6)
The Really Big Shoe Sale
Use what you know about percents, ratios, and proportions to figure out the sale price in this real world application of math. (Grades: 4-6)
Liquid Volume, Milliliters and Liters
In this Cyberchase Media Gallery, explore key concepts about liquid volume, including standard units of liquid measure and how to convert between them. (Grades: 5-6)
High School
Understanding a Crowd's Predictive Ability
Examine a mathematical theory known as the “wisdom of crowds,” which holds that a crowd’s predictive ability is greater than that of an individual. (Grades: 9-12)
Can You Solve This Pier Puzzle?
This math brainteaser challenges you to find a simple, elegant solution to a seemingly complex problem! Can you figure it out? (Grades: 6-12)
Statistics: Using Sampling to Count Trees
In this activity, students will learn about estimating the number of trees in a large area based on a smaller area. (Grades: 10-12)
Graphing Fuzzy Logic
Learn about differences between fuzzy and binary logic systems with this activity adapted from Scientific American Frontiers. (Grades: 9-12)
Strange Shapes - MIT's Science Out Loud
In school, you learn about shapes with sides and edges—but there are weird shapes out there (beyond our 3 dimensions) that defy our normal idea of geometry. (Grades: 8-12)
You Pour, I Choose: The Volume of Cylinders
This interactive exercise focuses on using what you know about cylinders to make a prediction about their volume and then requires calculating the actual volume. (Grades: 8-9)
Making Stuff Faster: The Math behind Package Delivery — Nova
Learn how UPS, a global package delivery company, has developed an algorithm to schedule routes for its delivery trucks in this video from NOVA: Making Stuff Faster. (Grades: 6-12)
Zombies and Calculus, Part 1
Learn about the math behind predator-prey population cycles in this video from NOVA Digital. (Grades: 6-12)
Zombies and Calculus, Part 2
In this hypothetical world, zombies always move straight toward humans. This means that the tangent vector of a zombie's path points at the intended target. (Grades: 6-12)
Reroofing Your Uncle's House
Predict the correct amount of roofing material needed to reroof a house while learning about the importance of proper planning. (Grades: 6-12)
The Math of Energy: Fossil Fuel Usage
To create projections for future global energy consumption, we can apply lines of best-fit to historical data. (Grades: 9-12)
Equivalent Expressions Using Exponents
Apply your critical thinking skills to learn about multiplication and division of exponents. (Grades: 8-9)
New Age Curriculum Songs | Media Arts Toolkit
The New Age Curriculum project uses the idea of songwriting and recording to help students understand math concepts. (Grades: K-13+)
Like Items
After their carts collide in a hardware store, two teachers discover that they both bought the same items in different quantities. (Grades: 9-12)
Meatballs: Volumes of Spheres and Cylinders
Use your problem solving skills to find out if the pot will overflow when Dan adds meatballs to his pasta sauce. (Grades: 8-9)
Economic Impact of a Changing Middle Class
Students analyze economic data to better understand America’s middle class, its role in the economy, and its impact on economic growth. (Grades: 9-12)
The Angle on Pool
Investigate how players think about angles in the game of pool. This video takes math out of the classroom and into the real world. (Grades: 8-12)
Popcorn Picker: Volumes of Solid Shapes
Experiment with the volume of two cylinders made from the same size paper. (Grades: 8-9)
Climate Change Projections
The Colorado River streamflow is projected to decrease over the course of this century. The estimates range from about 5% to 15%. (Grades: 4-12)