TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Chance at Monte Carlo
At its core, the LEGO MINDSTORMS product provides a programmable microprocessor. Students use the EV3 processor to simulate an experiment involving thousands of uniformly random points placed within a unit square. Using the underlying...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hot Potato, Cool Foil
Students explore material properties by applying some basic principles of heat transfer. They use calorimeters to determine the specific heat of three substances: aluminum, copper and another of their choice. Each substance is cooled in...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is a Digit
A lesson for students extend their understanding of the place value system. Students will learn how to define a digit and also identify a digit located in the ones place, the tens place, and the 100s place.
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Better Lesson: Bigger or Smaller
Second grade students are asked to apply two complementary processes: counting and grouping. The conceptual understanding of the place value of a number and combining/separating numbers using place value, are critical aspects of...
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Better Lesson: Applying the Basics!
Using base-ten materials and place-value skills, 2nd graders gain a better understanding of how to add and subtract numbers.
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Better Lesson: Put It Together and Take It Apart
Second graders increase their understanding of place value by manipulating larger numbers.
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Better Lesson: Comparing Numbers Written in Expanded Form
Second graders take their understanding of place value to the next level when they compare numbers written in expanded form. This lesson plan includes printable worksheets and a video showing students engaged in the lesson.
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Better Lesson: Comparing Three Digit Numbers
Second graders use their knowledge of place value to compare three-digit numbers. This lesson includes a detailed plan, a learning game, a video of students engaged in the lesson, and tiered independent work based on ability levels.
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Better Lesson: Comparing Things!
Second graders explore numbers in a variety of ways to understand how to compare three-digit numbers based on an understanding of place value. This lesson includes an interactive number line video, samples of student work, and a...
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Better Lesson: Comparing Temperatures
Second graders should be able to recognize what makes one number greater or smaller than another, using place value understanding which is crucial to Common Core mastery. This lesson combines math and science by having students order...
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Better Lesson: Is the Statement True or False?
Second graders use their knowledge of place value to determine whether a comparison statement is true or false.
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Better Lesson: Mentally Speaking!
Using base ten blocks and place value, 2nd graders explore how to become more fluent in adding and subtracting two-digit numbers without regrouping.
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Better Lesson: We Can Guess the Number
Understanding place value is critical to the Common Core Standards for second grade. Without a concrete understanding, 2nd graders may not fully grasp the meaning of the digits.
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Better Lesson: Moving Along in Tens
Grouping by tens reinforces the understanding of place value
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Better Lesson: Excellent Mathematical Explanations
Second graders use place value vocabulary to write excellent mathematical explanations about why a comparison statement is true or false.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Grouping to Count Quickly
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad helps the Fairy Tale people save their king by teaching them how to count quickly by grouping.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Acid Attack
In this activity, students explore the effect of chemical erosion on statues and monuments. They use chalk to see what happens when limestone is placed in liquids with different pH values. They also learn several things that engineers...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Bridging the Gaps
Students are presented with a brief history of bridges as they learn about the three main bridge types: beam, arch and suspension. They are introduced to two natural forces - tension and compression - common to all bridges and...
abcteach
Abcteach: Teach: Decimals
[Free Registration/Login Required] Educators can generate worksheets for primary or elementary grades that focus on decimal addition, subtraction and fraction practice. Worksheets include graphics and answer key.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Placing Artifacts in Time
This is from an American history course designed for teachers to enrich their knowledge and their teaching practice. This interactive focuses on how history views Pocahontas. It looks at how historical events are re-interpreted as time...
Other
Active Maths Limited: Decimal Number Lines: Whiteboard Resources
This is an excellent resource for teaching and learning about decimals. Three different interactive number lines help students visualize units in tenths and hundredths and decimals.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Inca Temple: Number Sense
Do you want to know how to pronounce really big numbers? Paul can teach you!
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Base Ten Concentration [Pdf]
Students determine if the base ten picture is the same as the two-digit number in this game of memory.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Two Digit Addition With Regrouping
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help the second grade student review three digit place value and comparing numbers. It has a helpful work mat for teaching two digit addition with regrouping. Students will learn how...