Curated OER
Everyday Mathematics: Coins
In this counting coins learning exercise, students receive help from an adult to find the total value for the pictured coins. The objective is to enhance students' counting money skills and skip counting skills.
Curated OER
Making a Quilt: Multiplication
Third graders explore their multiplication skills. They will use their problem solving skills to solve an everyday math problem that requires them to multiply numbers. This lesson incorporates the use a video titled "Blossom and Snappy...
Curated OER
Food Pyramid Abacus
Students investigate the Food Pyramid by constructing a creative project known as a Food Pyramid Abacus. They correlate the color beads withe each food group and the number of recommended servings from each. The abacus is a learning tool...
Curated OER
Investigation - The Bakery Shop
Students use manipulatives to establish quantity. By singing a song titled "Five Little Cookies," students determine which strategy to use to find out how many cookies are left in the bakery shop.
Curated OER
Valentine Heart Candy
Each student gets a box of candy Valentine hearts. The students open the box and count how many of each colored heart they have in their box. The students use this information to make a bar graph and answer follow-up questions.
Curated OER
Try A Pizza Theme Week
Students explore all the things they could do with a pizza. They become aware of food groups and nutritional needs, make decorated cardboard pizzas, interact with pizza slices and fractions, create stories to go along with their...
Curated OER
Show Me The Money
Third graders explore the value of U.S. money. In this money lesson, 3rd graders print out pictures of money from the Internet and create play money. The students will play a game in which they display the amount of money called out by...
Curated OER
Counting and Place Value
Students complete activities and watch videos to learn about place value and to count by groups of ten. In this counting practice lesson plan, students complete worksheets and view videos about grouping numbers and place value. Students...
Curated OER
Circle Drawing Match-Up
In this counting in groups worksheet, students match the picture with the correct number of circles. Students draw a line between the pictures and the circle sets.
Curated OER
Go Fish! Student Worksheet
A math and science learning exercise prompts learners to simulate how scientists determine populations of animals out in the wild. They use goldfish crackers, paper bags, and a styrofoam cup as their tools. An excellent cooperative group...
Curated OER
Go Fish
Help learners discover methods to estimate animal population. They will participate in a simulation of catching and tagging fish in order to estimate the fish population. They scoop and count goldfish crackers, record data, and use...
DK Publishing
Tricky Word Problems - Choosing the Operation
Decipher the equations in these addition and subtraction word problems. Two examples at the top of the page guide second graders as they solve the rest of the problems. There is no space to write out the equation, but there is a place to...
Utah Education Network (UEN)
Insides and Outsides
Give small groups handfuls of unit cubes and then dare them to build as many rectangular prisms as possible using only 12 cubes. This engaging activity serves as an introduction to the volume of solid figures. In addition to volume,...
NTTI
Putting Together Ten
Groups explore sets of 10 items in two varieties (i.e. 3 white buttons and 7 black ones, or 5 bears and 5 bunnies). They brainstorm about their objects, write math sentences to represent what they have, and report their discoveries...
Curated OER
Introducing Multiplication
Learners will look at repeating addition examples and view how they can be written as multiplication. They use manipulatives to complete a repeating addition activity and show it on graph paper. They also chart what they have found and...
Sylvandell Publishing
It's So Odd!
Some resources are just wonderful for stimulating creative thinking and concept understanding. Children are encouraged to explore odd and even numbers through a variety of creative activities. They group items, read a story, make an...
Curated OER
By the Pound
Agriculture surrounds us every day; incorporate measuring tools into a study of Oklahoma's agricultural industry! Small groups read an informational text (included) before visiting stations where they investigate prices of various...
K5 Learning
Mixed Practice Word Problems #6
Nine questions make up a mixed practice instructional activity. The word problems require scholars to show what they know about money, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using numbers up to 5,300.
EngageNY
Writing and Evaluating Expressions—Multiplication and Addition
How many people can sit around a table? The 22nd part in a series of 36 continues the work on writing and evaluating expressions to include expressions with two operations. Pupils use models to determine an expression for the number of...
Virginia Department of Education
Analyzing and Interpreting Statistics
Use measures of variance to compare and analyze data sets. Pupils match histograms of data sets to their respective statistical measures. They then use calculated statistics to further analyze groups of data and use the results to make...
Curriculum Corner
Winter Multiplication and Division Problem Solving Task Cards
A set of 18 winter-themed multiplication and division word problems is perfect for your math centers right before the holidays. Each problem is numbered and represented on a task card. Young mathematicians write their answers on a...
K5 Learning
Mixed Practice Word Problems #8
Six questions make up a mixed practice worksheet. Scholars use their knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, money, perimeter, ounces, and pounds to solve word problems with numbers up to 66,000.
K5 Learning
Mixed Practice Word Problems #5
Six word problems make up this mixed practice worksheet. Pupils work with money, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing using numbers up to 250.
Virginia Department of Education
Scatterplots
Math is all fun and games with this activity! Learners use an activity designed around hula hoops to collect data. They create scatter plots with their data and then analyze the graphs for correlation.