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Can You Guess
Students develop useful strategies for mental calculation when estimating possible addition solutions. They mentally perform calculations involving addition and subtraction. Students state the estimated sum or difference between numbers.
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Big Steps
Second graders practice developing strategies for mental calculation when counting in 10s and 100s. They mentally perform calculations involving addition and subtraction to be able to state the difference between numbers by counting in...
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M&M: Multiplication Madness
Students analyze the multiplication facts from zero to ten in the ten lessons of this unit. The concepts of mental multiplication and solving word problems are important components of this unit.
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The Take-Awar Bar 1
Pupils use an Internet tool, "The Take-Away Bar" to solve subtraction problems by breaking them into parts. They write and solve comparison problems. Students make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of answers. They use...
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Hooked On Problem Solving
Fourth graders use properties of operations and problem-solving strategies to do mental calculations, and look for patterns in the solutions. They create an array, using each of the digits 1-9 exactly once to form addition problems...
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Block It Game
Students use problem solving strategies such as guess and check and visualization to play the game. They use mental mathematics to decide on the placement of pattern blocks and look for patterns.
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Menu Mania
Students explore the concept of estimating by watching a video, and discussing the strategies for estimation. They estimate the costs for various menu items, then calculate the exact amount spent.
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Links Away: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Students explore fact families. In this math lesson, students use links to model a fact family. Students solve addition and subtraction problems.
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Best Guesser
Fifth graders develop strategies for estimating ages, and illustrate results by graphing and interpreting scatter plots to compare x and y coordinates.
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A Square of Circles
Second graders practice calculations and working with even and odd numbers. They perform mental calculations involving addition. Students devise and use problem solving strategies to solve problems.
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Measurement
Pupils use arithmetic in a practical situation using time and distance.
As the calculations involved in this problem involve single digit addition and multiplication it offers a good opportunity to encourage the students's use of mental...
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Rabbits
Students review what they think doubling means and double numbers mentally, for example, 5, 12, 16. They share their solutions and discuss how they doubled. They work together on a problem that is beyond mental working and solve...
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Belongs, Doesn't Belong
Fifth graders discover the rule used to sort a set of data into two sets, those data that belong according to the rule and those data that don't belong. Students participate in a game to determine the rule. They discuss strategies for...
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Fuel Saving
Young scholars explore the problem of percentages. Students find a given fraction or percentage of a quantity. Young scholars devise and use problem solving strategies on problems explored.
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Let's Take a Trip!
Sixth graders plan a trip for a family of four choosing their travel plan by studying maps to decide upon a route and visiting Websites to get airline and travel schedules. They use ratios and proportions as well as converting fractions...
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Balancing Act
Second graders identify the attributes of various shapes and estimate the weight of the objects. In this geometry lesson plan, 2nd graders identify the attributes of concrete objects and use a pan balance to weight them.
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Multiplying with Packages and Letters
Students explore multiplication. In this multiplication problem solving lesson, students view a video clip which demonstrates loading a truck with packages. Students fill in a blank array to represent 1"X 2" and the multiples when...
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Multiplying Decimal Numbers: Using Zeros as Placeholders
Explore decimals with upper graders. They solve problems from their textbook involving decimal multiplication. Afterward, as a class, they check their answers by comparing them to those projected with an overhead projector.
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Two-Digit Subtraction With Regrouping
Students practice their subtraction skills by solving 2 digit subtraction equations the teacher lists on the board. In this subtraction with regrouping lesson, students use the regrouping method to solve the 2-digit subtraction equations.
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2 digit subtraction
Second graders subtract numbers 0 through 10 from 2 digit numbers using different subtraction methods. In this subtraction lesson plan, 2nd graders practice crossing out numbers in a number line, using a 10, and using their fingers to...
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The Number Toolbox-Vocabulary Test
In this numbers vocabulary worksheet, students complete a 10 question test, matching "number" vocabulary terms with their correct definition. Answers are provided on page 2.
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Division Dilemma
For this division worksheet, students play a game with number spinners to figure out division problems and then solve them. Students solve 5 rounds of the game and answer 5 questions.
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Fractions and Fact Families: Jump Kangaroo Jump!
Second graders practice with fractions and fact families. In this fractions and fact families instructional activity, 2nd graders participate in a series of activities to assist them with understanding fractions. Activities include...
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PLANETS IN PROPORTION
Middle schoolers discover scales for both the solar bodies' relative sizes and their distances from the sun. They find equatorial circumference and volumes of their solar bodies. Students apply estimation strategies and proportioanl...