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Monster School Bus
Load up the bus. Pupils play a game where they control a bus to pick up a certain number of monsters for school. Learners develop strategies to make sure they have a full load and score the most rewards. As scholars work through the...
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The Number System
Students explore how to multiply and divide by 10, 100, and 1000. In this computation lesson, students participate in an online activity using the interactive whiteboard. Students generate sums by using dice.
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I Am The Greatest
Learners work with the place value of given digits. In this place value lesson, students use a deck of number cards to find the greatest number when they draw three cards from the deck. They arrange the the digit from greatest to least.
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Understanding Place Values
Students investigate the place values of numbers by completing a worksheet. In this number sense lesson, students identify the place value of a number from ones, to the millions. Students complete a place value worksheet in...
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One Vs. One Hundred
Young scholars explore the concept of place value. They differentiate between digits and their values as it related to addition and subtraction. Through the use of technology and manipulatives students investigate the place value of...
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Units Multiplication Closure Activity
Learners practice multiplication. In this multiplication instructional activity, students multiply two numbers and closely examine how multiplication affects the units digit of the product.
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Hundreds question
In this hundreds online activity, students answer the question for how many hundreds are in the given number.
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Shop till You Drop! Working with Money
Paper and coin currency are shown and reviewed, and then used to apply consumer math skills. Learners are given two examples of how they should line up decimal points and place values when adding or subtracting money. They watch as the...
Illustrative Mathematics
How Many Colored Pencils?
Support young mathematicians' interpretation of place value in order to multiply single-digit numbers by 10. The task builds upon and enhances a learners' understanding of place value, a second grade skill, while introducing...
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Rounding Decimals
Fourth graders engage in a lesson that is about the concept of rounding decimals. They review place value and focus it upon the practice of rounding. Students use 10 base decimal grids or models to help make connections with the skill.
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Ones and Tens
Students identify the relationship between ones and tens in place value. They use place value mats and straws to identify tens and ones and group the ones to represent tens. After writing and discussing the numbers 10 and 20 they...
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Enjoyable Assessments
First graders participate in two place value games for review. In groups, they work together to assess themselves before their test over place values. They review any questions they have before their assessment.
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Mean Value Theorem
Students calculate the slopes of secant lines. In this calculus lesson, students graph tangent and secant lines using the coordinate plane. They use the Ti calculator to graph and observe the lines.
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Grade 3: Make a Hundred
Third graders roll a die seven times, each time determining whether to add that number of tens or that number of ones to try to make a sum as close to 100 as possible without going over.
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Tic-Tac-Place Value
First graders explore how to write, read, and identify three-digit numbers.
Illustrative Mathematics
Make 9
Learning how numbers are put together as parts and wholes is a big step in building the foundational number sense of young mathematicians. Here, children are given a number less than 10 and are asked to find as many pairs of numbers as...
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Roll a Decimal
Third graders take turns rolling the die, and selects an appropriate place to put the digit that was rolled in order to create a number with the largest value possible. They compete by trying to roll the highest valued number with the die.
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Tens and Units
In this math worksheet, students create tally data tables to practice counting by tens. They also could extend the activity to create number sentences.
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Using Tens and Ones
Young scholars make bean sticks. In this place value lesson, students practice counting ones and tens by using craft sticks and beans to make counting sticks.
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Rounding Whole Numbers
Can your fourth graders round to the nearest 10? What about the nearest 100, or 10,000? A thorough resource helps them practice rounding numbers of varying size. Four sets of problems prompt students to round to specified place values,...
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Calculator Numbers
Know thy calculator. Young mathematicians use their calculators to answer a set of questions. They consider how the number of digits the calculator displays affects the answers to calculations. They then find examples of computations...
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Decimal Place Value Chart: Tenths
In this decimal place value worksheet, students fill in numbers in the correct "place" on a place value chart. Page has links to answers and activities.
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Napier's Rods
Young mathematicians explore the concept of multiplication using Napier's Rods. They use Popsicle sticks to create a 3D model of Napier's Rods. Pupils multiply multiple digit numbers using Napier's Rods.