Required Materials
$\frac12$-inch cubes$\frac14$-inch graph paper
Base-ten blocks
Beakers
Bingo chips
Blank paper
Colored pencils
Copies of blackline master
Cuisenaire rods
Decks of playing cards
Demonstration nets with and without flaps
Dot stickers
Small circular sticker useful for plotting points on a display.
Drink mix
A powder that is mixed with water to create a fruit-flavored or chocolate-flavored drink. Using a sugar-free drink mix is recommended, but not a mix that calls for adding a separate sweetener when mixing up the drink.
Empty containers
Food coloring
Four-function calculators
Gallon-sized jug
Geometry toolkits
For grade 6: tracing paper, graph paper, colored pencils, scissors, and an index card to use as a straightedge or to mark right angles.
For grades 7 and 8: everything in grade 6, plus a ruler and protractor. Clear protractors with no holes and with radial lines printed on them are recommended.
Notes: (1) "Tracing paper" is easiest to use when it's a smaller size. Commercially-available "patty paper" is 5 inches by 5 inches and ideal for this. If using larger sheets of tracing paper, consider cutting them down for student use. (2) When compasses are required in grades 6-8 they are listed as a separate Required Material.
Glue or glue sticks
Graduated cylinders
Graphing technology
Examples of graphing technology are: a handheld graphing calculator, a computer with a graphing calculator application installed, and an internet-enabled device with access to a site like desmos.com/calculator or geogebra.org/graphing. For students using the digital materials, a separate graphing calculator tool isn't necessary; interactive applets are embedded throughout, and a graphing calculator tool is accessible on the student digital toolkit page.
Graph paper
Grocery store circulars
Grocery store advertisements from the newspaper or that are picked up at the store. If students have Internet access, you could substitute an online version of this.
Household items
Inch cubes
Index cards
Internet-enabled device
Liter-sized bottle
Markers
Masking tape
Materials assembled from the blackline master
Measuring tapes
Metal paper fasteners
brass brads
Meter sticks
Nets of polyhedra
Origami paper
Paper clips
Paper cups
Pattern blocks
Pre-assembled or commercially produced polyhedra
Pre-assembled or commercially produced tangrams
Pre-assembled polyhedra
Pre-printed cards, cut from copies of the blackline master
Pre-printed slips, cut from copies of the blackline master
Quart-sized bottle
Rulers
Rulers marked with centimeters
Salt
Scale
a digital scale that can output in grams, kilograms, ounces, or pounds
Scissors
Snap cubes
Sticky notes
Stopwatches
Straightedges
A rigid edge that can be used for drawing line segments. Sometimes a ruler is okay to use as a straightedge, but sometimes it is preferable to use an unruled straightedge, like a blank index card.
String
Students’ collections of objects
Tape
Teacher’s collection of objects
Teaspoon
Tools for creating a visual display
Any way for students to create work that can be easily displayed to the class. Examples: chart paper and markers, whiteboard space and markers, shared online drawing tool, access to a document camera.
Tracing paper
Bundles of "patty paper" are available commercially for a very low cost. These are small sheets (about 5" by 5") of transparent paper.
Tray
Water
Yardsticks