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Number and Operations: Webbing Our Way Through Numbers
Second graders explore estimation and place value. In this place value lesson, 2nd graders estimate and construct numbers while working with spider activities. Students use addition and subtraction to compare estimates. Resources and...
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Money: Count Pennies, Save a Dollar
Students determine how to make the largest sum of money using the least amount of coins. In this mixed currency lesson plan, students listen to a reading of If You Made a Million by David M. Schwartz before participating in money...
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Value Your Digits
Third graders work with place value. In this place value lesson, 3rd graders write three digit numbers and tell the place value of each number. They compare numbers and money, regroup, discuss the value of coins, and count money.
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Cool Cookie Math
Second graders identify the value of coins and make change from a dollar using different amounts. They are given story problems and use a fake shop in which they can buy things in which they have to determine how much change they would...
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Shape Lessons That Connect
Shape lessons provide a way for students to learn about art, science, and math.
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Folding Shapes; Are the Sides the Same?
Second graders explore geometry by experimenting with fold-ables. In this geometric shapes instructional activity, 2nd graders utilize cutout shapes from construction paper which they experiment with by folding. Students examine the...
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Making a Multiplication Lesson Matter
Teaching students about multiplication can be made a little easier with lessons that will peak their interest.
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Architecture is Elementary
Young scholars learn the four orders of architecture: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. They create their own 3d structure and work together in groups. They create basic geometric shapes. # Have fun learning about art history,...
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Multiplication Books
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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Total English Elementary: The Best Thing is...
Given two nouns separated by an adjective, learners create eight sentences using the adjective in comparative form. Example: Jamaica/hot/UK, which becomes Jamaica is hotter than the UK. They then write the superlative form of eight...
Math Worksheets Land
Add and Subtract Multi-Digit Whole Numbers
Help young mathematicians see the value in addition and subtraction. Offering one addition and one subtraction problem, this worksheet walks learners step-by-step through the solutions of each, starting in the ones place and working...
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Time Management
Students record their daily activities and graph the results using the educational software program called Inspiration. This lesson is intended for the upper-elementary classroom and includes resource links and activity extensions.
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How Much Do I Watch TV?
In this television watching worksheet, students determine the amount of television they watch in a week by recording the names and times of the shows. They total the number of hours of watching time. You can use this with upper...
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Probability - Explore and Tabulate
Upper elementary and middle schoolers explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, pupils flip coins and draw chips out of a bag to determine the likelihood of a particular outcome. They perform the experiments with...
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Writing Numbers - Different Forms
Elementary schoolers write numbers in different forms. In this mathematics lesson, learners complete a worksheet where they will practice writing numbers in standard, word, and expanded form.
Illustrative Mathematics
Overlapping Rectangle
Challenge young mathematicians' ability to compose and decompose shapes with this fun geometry puzzle. The goal is simple, locate all of the rectangles shown in a picture of three overlapping rectangles. Perform this activity as a whole...
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Money Responsibility
Introduce young learners to the important life skill of responsibly managing money and recording how much they spend and save.
Missouri Department of Insurance
Health Insurance
Confused by how health insurance works? This informational pamphlet and worksheet from the Missouri Department of Insurance offers explanations and examples to help future adults make important decisions regarding health insurance.
K12 Reader
Conjunctions: And
Math isn't the only subject where pupils get to add! Focus on conjunctions with a grammar lesson in which class members connect nouns with the word and.
BioEd Online
Bone Structure: Hollow vs. Solid
What is meant by the phrase "form follows function?" Allow your budding biologists to discover first-hand through two activities. In the first, groups work together to discover whether a solid cylinder or an empty cylinder can support...
University of Florida
Protecting Our Water Resources
Teach young environmentalists to protect their planet's resources with a set of interactive experiments. Kindergartners and other youngsters learn about watersheds and the water cycle, while older elementary learners focus on fertilizer...
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Music Activity at Family Math Night
Students work with a family member in placing all of the music notes on a staff board. They try to match the rhythm on the rhythm board and show their completed song to the teacher.
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Musical Math
Learners play a game of mathematical musical chairs, moving from desk to desk solving addition and subtraction problems.