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Reading, Writing, and Ordering Numbers
Students study place value. Students participate in place value and number relay games, write numbers in words, and discuss how numbers are read. As a class, they discuss the meaning of less than and grater than signs. Students use...
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Surface Area and Volume
In this surface area and volume instructional activity, 8th graders solve 11 various geometry problems that include determining the surface area and volume for the measurements given and finding the surface area for each solid shown....
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Absolute Value Bingo
Students explore some different concepts in relation to using a number line for instruction. Given some number values, they graph the position on the number line. The instructional activity ends with them playing Bingo.
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Academic Raceway Place Value
This PowerPoint provides students with an interactive review based on place value. This interactive review game contains questions for students to answer. The students are led around an "academic raceway" as they answer each question...
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Jump Rope Math
Young scholars practice grade level math skills. In this math activity, students solve math facts on index cards and collaboratively arrange them in numerical order on a jump rope. Correct order earns the team a chance to physically move...
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Who Wants to be a Champion?
Some high-level addition and subtraction awaits your pupils in this engaging Jeopardy-style game. They can earn bronze, silver, and gold medals by answering questions correctly. The categories also include completing equations and...
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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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Teaching Values of Decimals
Students participate in a number of activities in order to reinforce the study of the place value for decimals. They name place values for ones to thousandths.
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Place Value
Third graders review place value by arranging four numbers to make the highest number possible. They are shown a hundred flat. Students are asked to show another way of making 100 using base-ten blcoks. They are then shown a thousands...
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Place value concepts
Third graders participate in classroom game to practice place value skills. In this place value instructional activity, 3rd graders recognize matching digits of the same value. Students record their numerals and their value by writing...
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Math Detective: Rounding Four Digit Numbers
In this rounding four-digit numbers learning exercise, students read the multi-step story problem, complete the table and write an explanation of their answer.
School Mathematics Project
Resource Sheets
This extensive and far-reaching collection of worksheets puts a new twist on many basic concepts. Learners use multiplication to trace a path from one point to another, tile a plane by converting between improper and proper fractions,...
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Place Value Popsicles
Students play a place value game using popsicle sticks and dice. They investigate units and tens.
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Place Value on the Playground
Fourth graders explore ordering whole numbers through the millions place through a P.E. game on the playground. In small groups they form numbers while standing in hula hoops, telling the teacher what number was made by the combination...
Simply Worksheets
Math in the Car - Easy
In this car math instructional activity, students play games of math in the car involving license plates, speed signs, and more. Students complete 4 problems.
Simply Worksheets
Math in the Car
In this car worksheet, students play a game in the car where they have word problems relating to license plates, colors, and more. Students complete 7 problems.
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Place Value Lessons
Students can learn about place value using interesting lessons, activities, and games.
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All About Money
Few topics engage young mathematicians as much as learning about money. Through a series of shared readings and hands-on activities, children explore the US currency system, learning how to count money and calculate change as they create...
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Math on a Roll
Students practice various math skills using a polyhedral die. In this dice game lesson, students practice multiplication, addition, place value, and money using games. Standard dice may be used instead of a polyhedral die with...
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Twenty Questions: Fourth Grade Math Terms
Questions related to math vocabulary from a large variety of categories for 4th graders are displayed throughout this Jeopardy game. Concepts covered include angles, shapes, computation terms, statistics, and place value.
Illustrative Mathematics
Kiri's Mathematics Match Game
Learning math is so much more fun when it involves playing games. Following the rules of the classic game Memory, young mathematicians flip over two cards at a time as they look for numbers whose sum or difference is equal to the value...
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Card Counting
In this place value learning exercise, students follow the directions provided to play a math card game. Students play in pairs to play this game that involves determining the value of a digit depending on its place.
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Decimal Baseball
Young mathematicians represent recorded information in decimal form. In this decimals lesson, learners play a "classroom friendly" basketball game in which pupils take 10 shots. Number of shots made out of 10 is recorded as a fraction...
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Places, Places, Everyone
First graders play the game Show Me and use math software to practice place value.