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Better Lesson: Flower Power Place Value Station

For Teachers K Standards
Students will compare sets of numbers using symbols for greater than, less than, and equal to.
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Better Lesson: Grandma's Button Box Sorting

For Teachers K Standards
Students will be able to compare objects and sort objects by color.
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Better Lesson: Four for You! Exploring the Number Four

For Teachers K Standards
Students will be able to identify the number four, identify groups with four objects and represent the number four.
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Better Lesson: Fat or Flat?

For Teachers K Standards
Students will tell if a shape is 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional.
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Better Lesson: Fishy Tales

For Teachers K Standards
Students tell how long an object is by measuring it using paper clips and comparing it to other objects measured with the same non-standard unit of measurement.
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Better Lesson: Going on a Math Hunt

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders ask questions of adults they know about how they use math, then students will design a method to share what they have found.
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Better Lesson: Larger Distances

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Using the size of the planets, 2nd graders are able to work with numbers to 1,000. This instructional activity introduces larger numbers (even beyond 1,000) to extend student understanding of the patterns in numbers.
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Better Lesson: What Can We Do With Math

For Teachers 2nd
This lesson requires students to think independently to problem solve using math. Lesson includes a video and pictures to help you implement this lesson.
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Better Lesson: Put It All Together

For Teachers 2nd Standards
A lesson plan for helping students to solve real world problems by using their mathematical tools.
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Better Lesson: We Are All a Happy Fact Family

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Explore the relationship between addition and subtraction with this lesson. Help students understand that "every subtraction fact has a related addition number sentence, and every addition fact has a related subtraction number...
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Better Lesson: What Is a Digit

For Teachers 2nd Standards
A lesson for students extend their understanding of the place value system. Students will learn how to define a digit and also identify a digit located in the ones place, the tens place, and the 100s place.
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Better Lesson: I've Got More Than You

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Do your students only think of "take away" when talking about subtraction. "The goal of this lesson is to allow students to see the comparison (difference) between two numbers." Lessons includes pictures and other documents to support...
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Better Lesson: Much Much More Than Take Away

For Teachers 2nd
Help your students solve subtraction number sentences by using the part/part/whole model. This activity shows students how to separate parts from a whole or by comparison to understand the subtraction number sentences. Lesson includes...
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: What if the World Were 100 People?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders learn about statistics and the process of doing statistics as an introduction to the 100 Students Project they will conduct about themselves and their classmates.
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Better Lesson: 3 D Figures and Nets

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders explore cube nets in an effort to understand what properties are common to all nets that form a cube. Students work hands-on with nets and are then pushed to use their experience to visually determine whether other nets...
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Better Lesson: Finding Arrays in an Irregular Polygon

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders decompose an irregular polygon into arrays to find the area.
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Better Lesson: Finding Angles

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
The three types of angles, right, acute, and obtuse, exist in our everyday surroundings. Young scholars find these angles using classroom items.
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Better Lesson: Geometry Shape Book

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders develop their understanding of the importance of different 2-dimensional shapes by finding real world examples.
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Better Lesson: Graphing Our Favorite Ice Cream

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders can collect and represent data with a unique scale.
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Better Lesson: Foods Third Graders Like

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders gather simple data, represent it on a bar graph, and answer simple, complex, and open-ended questions about the data.
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Better Lesson: Graphing Meaningful Data

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Students use their timed test scores to create a bar graph that compares their progress in learning math facts.
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Better Lesson: Finding What's Missing

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders can solve real world problems using their understanding of multiplication and division and the relationship they share.
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Better Lesson: Fractional Parts of an Hour: An Investigation

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders explain that an hour can be written as several different fractions. They will color representative segments on a clock.
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Better Lesson: Fun With Four: Decomposing to Known Factors of 1, 2, and 5

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders act as problem solvers to take an unknown fact and solve it by breaking it down into pieces that are known.