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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Jumping Math: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Combine counting sequences with physical activity to engage students and increase overall fitness. This lesson plan describes a fifteen to twenty minute series of activities that can be easily tweaked to work in any elementary classroom.
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Activity
History is Fun

Jan Brett: Ordinal Numbers: Cats in Line Activity Page

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Math and literature meet in this interactive game exploring ordinal numbers. Based on the cat tale, Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett, this activity is sure to engage students in developing number order skills. Learners receive immediate...
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Website
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Making Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore the literature connections, online activity, pencil and paper activity, and the manipulative investigation of patterns and geometric shapes on this page!
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Mysterious Money Trail

For Students K - 1st Standards
Pat Tern has been buying items all around town using counterfeit money. Help Math Maven identify a pattern to catch her before she deposits fake money into the Cashflow Bank.
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Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Sequences

For Students 9th - 10th
The lesson discusses sequences. Students learn about finite sequences, infinite sequences, and sequences with patterns. The resource consists of class notes, calculator tips, examples, and practice problems with solutions. The teacher...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dna Sequencing Alignment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has student find the level of similarity between two different-length strands of DNA. Connections to Djikstra's algorithm are mentioned, and students learn more to follow careful...
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Sequences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about sequences with this handy reference guide. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
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Activity
Other

Intervention Central: Early Math Fluency Generator

For Teachers K - 1st
Three activities to help students with early math fluency: Quantity Discrimination (QD): The student is given a sheet of number pairs and must verbally identify the larger of the two values for each pair. Missing Number (MN): The student...
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Magnifying Max

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This site has the view through Max's magnifying glass. The ants seem to be walking past him in a pattern, can you help him predict how many ants are coming next? Teachers will like the teacher's guide, activity sheet, and extra challenges.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Counting Down With Numbers

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice counting down from ten with this interactive game.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: The Tooth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Read this spooky rhyme and then use the activity page to create patterns with Halloween candy. The teacher's guide and extra challenges will help teachers make fun and interesting lesson plans.
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Interactive
Other

Ez School: Match and Extend the Pattern Using Basic Shapes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An interactive activity where students choose the next shape in a simple pattern. Two levels of difficulty. Includes option of printing a worksheet.
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Unit Plan
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Learn About Counting

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this online game to practice counting symbols.
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Website
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Counting With Words and Numbers

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students must choose the written number word that comes after the numeral given in this online game from AAAmath.com. This lesson offers the opportunity to learn, practice, play a game, and explore the concept.
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Website
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Counting Down With Numbers

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students practice counting backwards on this interactive lesson from AAAmath.com. This lesson offers the opportunity to learn, practice, play a game, and explore the concept of counting down.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Max's Super Stars

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this poem, teacher's guide, and various small manipulatives to make a great lesson on counting. There is a section for students to give their responses on the website.
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Activity
Rice University

Rice University: More Counting!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this interactive site for interesting and engaging practice with counting.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Explore Graphs and Factors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use a graphing calculator to explore the relationship between the linear factors of a quadratic function and its zeros. They learn that the x-intercepts and axis of symmetry of a quadratic function can be determined from its...
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Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Patterns and Picture Books

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
CarolHurst.com provides a sample chapter from Picturing Math, which teaches geometric concepts using picture books and activities.
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Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Infinite Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students learn to identify geometric series. They determine if a sequence converges and also learn to calculate the sum of numbers in a geometric series.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Protecting Our Planet Bingo: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week children will learn that they can make choices that can reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Nuts" About Peanuts! (Reading)

For Teachers K - 1st
The lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The students will learn about the growth cycle of a peanut and use a Five-Step Sequence Think-sheet to sequence the steps. They will also make predictions and complete...
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Measuring for Cookies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this instructional activity, students use math and physics skills to follow directions when making cookies. This is a very detailed and structured instructional activity!
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Shapey Network

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Sharpen your problem solving and logic skills on this network activity. There is a "Printable Page," link if you want to print it out to help you with your strategy.