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Better Lesson: Go Fishing for Doubles
Second graders play a favorite card game which practices the quick and accurate recall of double facts.
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Better Lesson: Any Order
The numbers in an addition number sentence (addends) can be added in any order and the sum remains the same.
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Better Lesson: Larger Numbers: A Tie to Social Studies
I want my students to realize that numbers are everywhere and math is applicable to almost all other subjects. Geography offers a perfect opportunity for students to make this connection.
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Better Lesson: Missing Number Equations
Second graders will become more comfortable making sense of equations presented in missing answer (traditional) and missing number ( nontraditional) formats.
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Better Lesson: Where on the Line?
Do you know where a number would be? Can you use a number line as a tool to solve problems?
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Better Lesson: Change Unknown Word Problems With Number Lines
Second graders solve change unknown story problems using a number line. This lesson gives students a new strategy to attach change unknown word problems.
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Better Lesson: Manipulation Central
Not everyone solves a problem in the same way. Reinforcing that different strategies can be used effectively is the goal of this instructional activity.
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Better Lesson: The Neighbors of Doubles
The big idea of this lesson is that students can solve for near doubles by thinking of the related doubles fact.
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Better Lesson: More Than Two Numbers
The big idea of this lesson is that three (or more) numbers can be grouped together and added. The order of this grouping doesn't matter.
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Better Lesson: Making a Ten
Making ten is one of the foundational strategies for developing flexible numerical thinking, accuracy, and efficiency.
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Better Lesson: Double Trouble
Second graders can think about doubles facts as world situations to help commit them to memory.
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Better Lesson: Domino Addition: Understanding the Part/part/whole Relationship
The big idea of this instructional activity is the understanding that addition can be represented as parts of a whole and that we can use addition sentences to represent those parts.