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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Multiples of Ten

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will apply the idea of adding or subtracting ten to a number by adding or subtracting multiple groups of ten from a number. Included is a detailed lesson plan, videos of the lesson in action, materials and worksheets, and center...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Financial Education

For Students Pre-K - K
Every goal starts with taking the first step. Teaching kids to save money by collecting in a specific place such as a piggy bank or a jar shows kids concretely how much they are saving. Every time you save up to a certain small, new...
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Homeschool Math

Homeschool Math: Comparing Decimals

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
This is a complete lesson with video instruction [5:49] and varied exercises about comparing decimals with 1 or 2 decimal digits.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Number Symbols

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on number symbols. Included are a video which explains how some numbers are used for amounts, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, quizzes on the information presented, and games to practice the skill....
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Better Lesson: It's Elementary My Dear Watson

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT identify and build numbers based on base ten language.
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Better Lesson: Comparing and Ordering Integers

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners will compare and order integers on the number line. This lesson includes a detailed plan with lots of examples, a screencast of the lesson, and slides containing notes and problems.
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Better Lesson: Constructing Tens and Ones

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students get a hands-on, minds-on experience with counting, while also constructing an understanding of tens and ones. This lesson includes a detailed plan, a link to a song about teen numbers, a video showing students engaging in...
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Better Lesson: How Big Is a Mile?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
How far do I have to walk in order to make 1 mile? Students measure, add, and figure it out.
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Better Lesson: Patterns in Larger Numbers

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Patterns are everywhere. We can use patterns to help us deal with larger numbers
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Better Lesson: Larger Number Patterns

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders can find patterns in 4-digit numbers that will help them when counting over decades and centuries.
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Better Lesson: Pets, Pets and More Pets

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders love to talk about pets and in this lesson they can share how many pets they have.
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Better Lesson: Larger Numbers: A Tie to Social Studies

For Teachers 2nd Standards
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: Writing and Solving Number Stories

For Teachers 2nd Standards
We can apply math to almost every part of the day and make math have a purpose for students.
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Better Lesson: Patterns in Nature

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Are there patterns in nature that can be described by numbers? That is what we will find out here.
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Better Lesson: Trimester Assessment Day

For Teachers 2nd
It is important to assess understandings of concepts that students have worked on before moving ahead with new concepts or higher level thinking.
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Better Lesson: Let's Review

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Revisit, Revisit, Revisit! Students need repeated exposure to math concepts to really understand how they work.
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Better Lesson: Using a Pattern to Solve a Problem

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Patterns are prevalent in all levels of math. Common Core Standards expect students to be able to use structure - like that found in repeating the patterns of odd and even numbers or counting by 5s or 10s - to solve problems (MP7).
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Better Lesson: Missing Number Equations

For Teachers 2nd Standards
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: Making Change Using Partners of One Hundred

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Using dimes to make change is another way to work with subtracting tens within 100.
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Better Lesson: Subtracting With Partners of 100

For Teachers 2nd Standards
When subtracting ten from a 2 digit number, 2nd graders should be able to compute the answer as fluently and comfortably as do when they add ten to a 2 digit number.
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Better Lesson: More Dimes and Dollars

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders need practice using coins and dollars and relating them to ones, tens and hundreds. Common Core standards include counting by 10s and 100s.
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Better Lesson: Patterns Make Ten

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson builds a foundation for adding larger numbers which is supported by the Common Core standards for second grade.
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Better Lesson: Using Class Data

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders have greater engagement in learning when it is organized around gathering and using meaningful data.
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Better Lesson: Hundreds, Tens, Ones Are Coins Too

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders will extend their understanding of hundreds, tens and ones using dollars, dimes and pennies as another way to express groups of 100, 10 and 1.