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Add Decimals Mentally

For Students 4th - 5th
In this adding decimals worksheet, students add a set of 5 decimal problems, then put missing decimal numbers to make sums add up to the number 1. Answers included, a reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Dragon Math

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students engage in a activity which provides a fun way to increase a student's ability to combine and separate numbers to form landmarks. They access a game online and play in pairs.
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Primary Junction

Adding Tens

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Build on your learners' confidence in quick addition as they discover strategies to add tens to two-digit numbers. After reviewing counting by 10's, they discuss tactics to add multiples of 10 to other numbers. They visualize how to...
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Add 29, 39, 49 To Any 2-Digit Number

For Students 4th - 5th
In this addition worksheet, students solve 18 problems in which the number 29, 39, or 49 is added to a two digit number. There are no hints or examples. Problems are in horizontal format for mental math.
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Addition and Subtraction Pick n Mix

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Teach your class how to mentally solve whole number addition and subtraction problems using compensation from tidy numbers including equal additions. They use appropriate recording techniques and predict the usefulness of strategies for...
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Adding Up

For Students 1st - 2nd
Make addition visual in order to help beginners understand the concept. They add up beads on a string, examining an example before trying it on their own. Learners fill in addends and sums for these, and sometimes both....
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Ten Frame

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners add numbers to ten.  In this addition to ten lesson, students play the Ten frame interactive game to learn about addition and facts to number ten.
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California Education Partners

John's Trip Disneyland

For Students 5th Standards
It all adds up to one. Pupils solve several items that involve finding sums of fractions in relationship to a whole. The assessment task uses fractions with unlike denominators to determine the amount of a tank of gas and the amount of...
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Matrix Madness!!

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Perform operations to add, subtract, multiply and divide matrices. Then solve problems with vectors using matrices. A three day lesson plan: Matrix Madness, Mystical Matrices, and Decode the Encode. The last lesson plan has prizes that...
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Mystery Jars

For Teachers K - 5th
This is a twist on the old "guess how many jellybeans" game. Using estimation and math skills, learners participate in a fun "mystery jars" activity, trying to make educated guesses at how many objects are in two jars. The basic activity...
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Addition

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this addition instructional activity, students mentally add together 12 math problems involving addition with 3 numbers. Students fill in the missing numbers in 3 equations.
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Mental Arithmetic Sets 3 and 4

For Students 3rd
In this mental arithmetic worksheet, 3rd graders answer 20 short answer questions related to place value, addition, subtraction, and skip counting. 
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Add and Subtract Whole Hundreds

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition and subtraction activity, students add and subtract whole hundred numbers. Students complete 5 problems on this activity.
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"The Grapes of Math" by Gregg Tang

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice mental addition and use the associative and commutative properties of addition to solve problems.
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Money Marvels

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore various combinations of coins and dollars that add up to make given totals. They complete five different studying stations, completing a worksheet at each center, and mentally perform calculations involving...
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Think of a Number

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math worksheet, students engage in a mental math activity. Student think a number and follow several computations with that number and always come up with the answer 9. Students discuss why this happens.
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Division Problems to Calculate Mentally

For Students 4th - 6th
In this division worksheet, students answer a set of 10 questions, trying to answer all questions "in their head." Answers are included on page 2.
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Mental Arithmetic Race

For Students 7th - 8th
In this mental arithmetic race, students compute as many arithmetic problems as possible in a given length of time. Problems include whole and decimal numbers. Students mentally divide multiply, and add whole numbers and decimals. This...
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Decompose a Factor

For Students 2nd - 5th
Mental multiplication just got easier! Clue your class into this multiplication shortcut as they decompose factors and add smaller products. For the first set of problems, they read the instructions, view an example, and then break down...
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Roll Seven!

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Roll Seven is a fun and engaging dice game that encourages the use of mental math.
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Dance, Dance, Dance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Use dance and song to help your charges in adding whole numbers to 10. In this adding to 10 lesson, learners become the manipulatives as you add them.
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Enjoying Millions- Working with Millions

For Students 4th
In this working with millions worksheet, 4th graders look for patterns when working with millions, and use mental math to determine a number. They add and subtract numbers from a number in the millions before using a set of clues to...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Yummy Apples!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young learners listen to a read aloud of Gail Gibbons book, Apples and the story A Red House With No Windows and No Doors. They compare characteristics of a number of kinds of apples, graph them and create a apple print picture. Learners...
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The Nuts and Bolts of a Mathematical Expression

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a worksheet that asks them to order operations within a mathematical expression. students evaluate the expressions in the correct order using mental math and paper. The results are recorded on the worksheet.

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