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Print & Go ESL

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Improve reading comprehension with a set of ESL worksheets. Kids read through various passages, note which facts are true or false, mark their opinion on two statements, and write a short reply based on a writing prompt.
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Math Facts Race

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students reinforce math-facts knowledge and understanding, contribute to a team effort and carefully observe the actions of all team members by playing a game to practice addition, subtraction, or multiplication facts.
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Reviewing Facts Through 10

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Manipulatives are always fun for children to use. They use connecting cubes and blocks to solve addition and subtraction word problems with numbers up to 10. They then play a math game and use their cube to create number sentences....
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Doughnut Race

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils will practice math facts in this fast-paced and fun "Doughnut Race." This fun activity has learners practice their math facts in a face paced game environment. It can be adapted to all mathematical operations by using a poster...
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Multiplication: Bugs Can Multiply, So Can I!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Develop multiplication skills with your class. Youngsters will visualize multiplication as repeated addition. Then they will create a multiplication bug book and discover arrays as a strategy for multiplication problem solving....
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Make a Match

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the relationship between addition and subtraction. For this number sense lesson, 2nd graders practice their computation skills and use various strategies (including manipulatives and calculators)  to add and subtract.
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Spill the Beans

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore the meaning of a fact family. In this Math lesson plan, students work in small groups to create their own fact family based on color of beans.  The beans are colored and represent a given value. Students discover the...
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Number Lines and Bead Strings

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students solve addition and subtraction problems using strings of beads and number lines. They mentally perform addition and subtraction problems, and write and solve story problems involving whole numbers.
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Multiplication Books

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Elementary schoolers create their very own multiplication book, which should help them to memorize their multiplication facts. Each pupil creates an addition and a multiplication sentence, such as: "Tommy goes to the store and bought...
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Multiplication

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice their multiplication facts by reinforcement and repetition. Students write facts in their math journals, and use labeled soccer ball and deck of cards to practice multiplying by "number of the day." Play continues until...
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Problem Solvers

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Fifth and sixth graders compare decimals to the place-value structure in the base-ten number system. They represent fractions as parts of unit wholes, as parts of a set, as locations on a number line, and as divisions of whole numbers....
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Number and Number Relations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Upper graders multiply numbers by tens and hundreds, and multiply two and three digit numbers by one digit numbers. They participate in a teacher-led lecture and complete examples with the class, complete a worksheet, and discuss the...
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Relationship Between Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students are taught how to add and subtract and use number sense to solve basic math problems. In this addition and subtraction lesson, students are being taught using theories from different philosophers in education. They are given a...
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Math Lesson Plan : Finger Counting

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Create a class of mathematics master. They practice addition to ten until they have mastered the skill. They use their hands to add numbers and eventually find the missing addend to make a sum of 10. They also subtract a single digit...
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Fact Families to 18

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this fact families to eighteen worksheet, students problem solve six word problems associated with fact families to eighteen.
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Yummy Gummy Subtraction

For Teachers K - 3rd
Here is a quick 15 minute lesson intended to introduce subtraction. Learners count and subtract gummy bears to complete 5 problems. The lessons suggest that the gummy bears can be saved and used the next day, but gummy bears get gross...
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National Security Agency

Place Value - Butterflies Floating Place to Place

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Learn about butterflies and place value in a series of interdisciplinary lessons! With several worksheets that reference butterfly facts in word problems, kids can practice science and math in one activity. Additional worksheets are...
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NASA

Melting Ice: Designing an Experiment

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Sometimes, despite the best laid plans, the unexpected will occur. Learners witness this firsthand as they carefully design an experiment to determine the time needed for ice to melt in salt water or pure water. They uncover facts not...
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Visa

The Influence of Advertising

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Pupils become informed consumers and citizens with this lesson plan on the influence of advertising, identifying basic advertising techniques and discriminating between fact and claim in modern advertisements and commercials.
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Don't Mess with Mercury (Lesson A)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Mercury is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature. Teach your class this and many more interesting mercury facts by assigning an engaging task. A public relations activity, the exercise informs pupils of the hazards of...
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Number Lines

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the number line as an addition strategy. In this math lesson, 1st graders create a number line and use it to help them solve addition problems.
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Part-Part-Whole

For Teachers 1st
First graders work with partners, using cubes to make addition sentences. In this math lesson, 1st graders separate cubes into 2 parts and discuss the relationship to addition sentences. Students practice separating cubes. Students make...
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Part Part Whole

For Teachers 1st
First graders solve number sentences. In this problem solving lesson, 1st graders construct addition sentences using a part part whole mat. Students demonstrate problem solving strategies using cubes.
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Equal Additions

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the relationships between numbers through the use of "equal addition" and "equal subtraction." Through the use of number sense, they are able to computer addition and subtraction problems mentally. Individually,...