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Developing Strategies for Addition and Subtraction
Primary graders develop strategies to assist them with addition and subtraction. They discover number combinations and numerical facts which enable them to add and subtract more effectively. Young scholars use these techniques to...
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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals
Students explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting lesson, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Students identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the next several...
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Reflection of Light
Students experiment with reflections of two plane mirrors placed at a 90 degree angle to see what will be reflected.
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Subtraction with Regrouping Lesson Plan
Learners explore regrouping while subtracting. In this subtraction instructional activity, pupils manipulate base 10 blocks to demonstrate regrouping. Multiple resources are provided.
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Geo-Class Mapping My Neighborhood
Students create a map of the school and surrounding neighborhood. For this mapping lesson, students discover their school's location and learn about its past. Students use math skills and the steps in the design process to complete the...
Baylor College
Needs of Plants
What better way to learn about plant life than by creating a class garden? Young botanists start with a brief discussion about radishes before planting seeds and watching them grow. To determine the importance of water, sunlight, and...
Indiana Department of Education
Indiana K-12 Educators’ Resource Toolkit
Imagine a tool that magically engages readers in the classroom. A handbook for Indiana educators doesn't guarantee success, but it does offer a variety of strategies for teachers to try. The handbook opens with research-based theory...
Math in English
Skip Counting
Help young mathematicians take the next step toward fluent addition with a simple skip counting exercise.
Curriculum Corner
Sports of All Sorts
Do your students love sports? Do they love math and reading? If the first answer is yes and the second is no, a resource with sports-themed math and literacy games may change their minds! Learners move through stations to practice...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Adding by finding 10's
Count with ten frames in a first grade addition lesson. Kids determine how to identify numbers on a number line, as well as with ten frames, and complete ten frames to show their answers in several addition problems.
Noyce Foundation
Measuring Mammals
Explore the meaning of scale and proportion with a set of five activities that examines the topic from elementary through high school. The first lessons explore ratio by examining pictures of different sizes. The next three activities...
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Building Brilliant Bar Graphs
Everything you need for a mini-unit on bar graphs is included in this lesson plan! It outlines three lessons and includes worksheets. Learners taste pretzels, shoot baskets (switching off hands), and grab candy, graphing results...
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Times Tables - Multiplication
Introduce students to multiplication through this fantastic math worksheet. Provides beginners with an explanation of multiplication as repeated addition using pictures to help students visualize the meaning and process of multiplying....
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Make a Measurement Maths Trail
Students follow a math trail that has been created by the teacher. They follow the trail and answer math questions at stations along the way. They work in small groups to devise a math trail of their own which they share with another class.
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Fractions: Mud Pie Math
Second graders identify and name fractional parts through the use of mud pie manipulatives. In this fractional manipulatives lesson, 2nd graders identify and label halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, eighths, and tenths and order them...
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Mental Math
Young scholars participate in an online computation game. In this computation lesson, students practice simple computations and use an internet site to review addition and subtraction facts.
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M&M Math
Students plan and make the M&M cookies, tally M&M's by color while eating cookie, and completing worksheet using math skills.
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M&M Math
Students research number values by participating in a candy exercise. In this math function lesson, students utilize baking ingredients to create cookies and multiply how many M&M's will go into the batch if you want a certain amount...
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TAKS Math Quiz-Add More Than 2 Numbers
In this TAKS math quiz worksheet, students complete a 10-questions online quiz focused on adding more than 2 numbers. Test may be graded by clicking a link; page has additional links to resources.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 2
In this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, students practice their one-digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 8
In this tic-tac-toe math game learning exercise, students practice their three digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Year Two: Time
In this math vocabulary worksheet, students review math vocabulary words that have to do with time. Students complete this for 21 words.
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Monster Math
Students create a name for a monster and write it on their paper. They devise math problems to determine how many features the monster will have. For example: 19 - 7 = 12 so the monster could have 12 eyes.
Heidi Songs
Zoo Animal Probability Graph
Capture the engagement of your young mathematicians with a collaborative graphing activity. Using a deck of zoo animal picture cards, students select a picture from the deck, record the chosen animal on a graph, and then replace the card...