Math Trailblazers

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this textbook. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

1: Sampling and Classifying

Forest Ecosystem
Mascot Election (Pictographs and Bar Graphs)
Mean, Median and Mode
Reaction Time 1 (Graphs and Statistics)

2: Strategies

Cannonball Clowns (Number Line Estimation)
Modeling Decimals (Base-10 Blocks)
Number Line Frog Hop (Addition and Subtraction)
Number Systems

3: Exploring Multiplication

Critter Count (Modeling Multiplication)
Equivalent Fractions (Fraction Tiles)
Fraction Artist 1 (Area Models of Fractions)
Fraction Garden (Comparing Fractions)

4: Place Value Concepts

Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Cannonball Clowns (Number Line Estimation)
Distance-Time Graphs
Elapsed Time
Fido's Flower Bed (Perimeter and Area)
Measuring Motion
Modeling Decimals (Base-10 Blocks)
Movie Reviewer (Mean and Median)
No Alien Left Behind (Division with Remainders)
Part:Part and Part:Whole Ratios
Rectangle: Perimeter and Area

5: Area of Different Shapes

Adding Fractions (Fraction Tiles)
Distance-Time Graphs
Estimating Sums and Differences
Fido's Flower Bed (Perimeter and Area)
Fraction Artist 1 (Area Models of Fractions)
Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Measuring Motion
Modeling Fractions (Area Models)

6: More Adding and Subtracting

Cargo Captain (Multi-digit Subtraction)
Holiday Snowflake Designer
Polygon Angle Sum - Activity B
Quilting Bee (Symmetry)
Rounding Whole Numbers (Number Line)
Target Sum Card Game (Multi-digit Addition)
Triangle Angle Sum - Activity A

7: Exploring Multiplication and Division

Comparing and Ordering Decimals
Compound Independent Events
Fraction, Decimal, Percent (Area and Grid Models)
Function Machines 1 (Functions and Tables)
Function Machines 2 (Functions, Tables, and Graphs)
Geometric Probability - Activity A
Modeling Decimals (Area and Grid Models)
Multiplying Decimals (Area Model)
No Alien Left Behind (Division with Remainders)
Probability Simulations
Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)
Sums and Differences with Decimals
Treasure Hunter (Decimals on the Number Line)

8: Mapping and Coordinates

3D and Orthographic Views - Activity A
City Tour (Coordinates)

9: Using Patterns to Predict

Determining a Spring Constant
Direct Variation
Function Machines 2 (Functions, Tables, and Graphs)
No Alien Left Behind (Division with Remainders)
Percents, Fractions and Decimals
Toy Factory (Set Models of Fractions)
Using Tables, Rules and Graphs
Weight and Mass

10: Numbers and Patterns

City Tour (Coordinates)
Points in the Coordinate Plane - Activity A
Quilting Bee (Symmetry)
Reflections
Rock Art (Transformations)
Translations

11: Multiplication Patterns

Chocomatic (Multiplication, Arrays, and Area)
Factor Trees (Factoring Numbers)
Finding Factors with Area Models
Finding Patterns
Fraction Garden (Comparing Fractions)
Pattern Flip (Patterns)

12: Dissections

Fractions Greater than One (Fraction Tiles)
Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Multiplying Fractions
Quilting Bee (Symmetry)

13: Parts and Wholes

Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Classifying Quadrilaterals - Activity A
Density
Determining a Spring Constant
Fraction Artist 1 (Area Models of Fractions)
Proportions and Common Multipliers
Toy Factory (Set Models of Fractions)

14: Collecting and Using Data

Circle: Circumference and Area
Construct Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
Constructing Congruent Segments and Angles
Graphing Skills
Mascot Election (Pictographs and Bar Graphs)
Reaction Time 1 (Graphs and Statistics)
Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)
Time Estimation

15: Decimal Investigations

Area of Parallelograms - Activity A
Measuring Trees
Modeling Decimals (Base-10 Blocks)
Rectangle: Perimeter and Area
Treasure Hunter (Decimals on the Number Line)

16: Volume

Balancing Blocks (Volume)
Density
Estimating Population Size

17: Wholes and Parts

Fraction Artist 2 (Area Models of Fractions)

18: Viewing and Drawing 3-D

3D and Orthographic Views - Activity A

19: Multiplication and Division Problems

Chocomatic (Multiplication, Arrays, and Area)

Content correlation last revised: 5/27/2010