PBS
Pbs Mathline: Tiling the Plaza Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Students are given pattern blocks and are told to create a tile design for a building to use on the floor. Printable lesson.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Perfect Fit Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Use pattern blocks to explore the shapes that can fit into the given shape.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Perfect Fit Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Use pattern blocks to explore different shapes within a shape.
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 07: Fruity Counters
Students use pattern block stickers to determine and explore patterns.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Models to Solve Equations
Given a problem, the student will use concrete and pictorial models to solve equations and use symbols to record their actions.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Kinematic Equations & Problem Solving
This excellent high school physics tutorial from The Physics Classroom investigates motion formulas using several problem-solving strategies including diagrams, equations, and lists.
Other
Saskatoon Public Schools: Virtual Manipulatives
A collection of links to pages with virtual manipulatives created for this site. Many of the activities are designed for home or school practice.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Ten Frames
An interactive for working with ten frames or a variation of one. Choose characters or shapes for counters and lay them out in your frame. There are tools for duplicating, rotating, drawing, and deleting, as well as for typing an...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Cabri Jr. App
Students use the Cabri Jr. App to construct, analyze, and transform mathematical models and geometric diagrams.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Weaving a Story
In this activity, students construct a paper weaving using a chart model. They will also learn skip counting with the TI-10 and recognize number patterns in art.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Make Ten Bundles [Pdf]
Students complete an activity by rolling a die and creating bundles of ten.
TES Global
Tes: Tens and Units Visualizing
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore base ten by bundling ten crayons at a time and then counting groups of ten without counting each individual crayon.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Solve Problems With Picture Graphs 1
Read and interpret picture graphs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a tutorial video, or receive hints.
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Mathematical Models With Applications
In this activity, students use geometry software to create a two-point perspective drawing.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Picture Graphs
Use picture graphs to solve word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Problem Solving Plan, Diagrams
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Solve problems using diagrams.
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Games: Flower Power [Share Flowers Equally]
Simple animation through which students can practice dividing flowers equally among two or three spaces.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Classroom Math Tools
Students should develop an awareness of and correctly use the classroom tools that are available to assist them with their mathematical learning. This lesson introduces them to math manipulatives and a math journal. Videos of students...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Counting Beyond Our Fingers and Toes
Young scholars will practice counting from 1-30 and having one-to-one correspondence with objects for these numbers. Also, they will practice finding patterns on a hundreds chart. This instructional activity includes a detailed plan,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat Collection
The Peg + Cat on-air series and online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce early math concepts. In each 11-minute on-air episode of this animated, math-based series for 3-8 year olds, Peg and Cat...
Other
Nearpod: Adding and Subtracting Within 10
In the lesson on adding and subtracting within 10, students will use ten frames to add and subtract. They will also review key vocabulary terms, like sum, difference, and equal sign.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Linear Models
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores both linear models and scatter plots.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Romantic Riddle
See if you can figure out the solution to this romantic riddle. You can find the solution right at this one page website once you have formulated your own.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Four Colors Problem
See if you can arrange the cubes according to the directions to solve this challenge. This one page website includes the solution.