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Better Lesson: Following Rules
Fourth graders often confuse skip counting with finding a rule or pattern for a given set of numbers. Here, they focus on how one number relates to the next and extend the pattern to determine the rule.
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Better Lesson: Finding the Right Place!
Second graders use numbers, base-ten models, and real-word pictures to examine ways to place numbers in their correct place.
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Better Lesson: Go Fishing for a Ten
Second graders use a familiar card game to help them build their math fact fluency for facts where the sum is 10.
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Better Lesson: Getting Paid for Our Work
Second graders see how money is used to buy and sell items. They will participate in an activity to see how people get money.
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Better Lesson: Fractions of Time and Money
People talk about quarters of the hour, or quarters in a dollar. This lesson lets students in on what that means.
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Better Lesson: Graphing Our Snack Mix: Review of Graphing
Second graders review how to make bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs by tallying the contents of snack mix and building graphs to show their data.
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Better Lesson: Going for the Gold
Second graders read and create graphs based on Olympic data for 2014.
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Better Lesson: Graphing Data on a Graph
Second graders will be able to read and write data on a graph.
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Better Lesson: Extending Partners of 10 and 100
Second graders use their partners of 10 to add numbers to 1,000 in partners of 100.
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Better Lesson: Graphing January's Weather
First graders graph the weather in Vermont for the month of January.
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Better Lesson: Filling Shadows With More and Less
First graders use their understanding of composing and decomposing shapes to cover a given area. Today's lesson is bringing together many of the geometric skills from previous lessons.
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Better Lesson: Filling the Shadow
Variety is the spice of life and the concept of the day as students fill the same pattern block outline three different ways.
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Better Lesson: Graph Party
First graders will be involved in creating three different types of graphs and then be asked to answer questions about each representations data set.
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Better Lesson: Go Fishing for Doubles
Second graders play a favorite card game which practices the quick and accurate recall of double facts.
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Better Lesson: Filling in the Middle
Students use both area and perimeter to work with geometric shapes.
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Better Lesson: Fractions Can Be Fun
Second graders recognize what it means to fold a paper in half, but do they recognize how to create fourths or thirds?
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Better Lesson: Representing the Sample Space
Do you know how many possible outcomes there are in rock, paper, scissors? Let's find out!
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Better Lesson: Describing Data Activity
This is a hands on activity to get the students thinking about how to describe data sets.
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Better Lesson: Line Plot Activity
This lesson will tap into US History and the ages of presidents during their inauguration and describing the data in a line plot.
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Better Lesson: Bar Graph Activity
The students will be collecting data from other students to represent in a bar graph. If available, they can then use a computer program called Bar Grapher tool to show their data with a different layout.
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Better Lesson: Say It With Stats! Review
The students will be working in centers to review for their test. The centers will consist of a computer rotation, versa-tiles, and a teacher center. All centers will reinforce concepts learned throughout this unit to prepare them for...
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Better Lesson: Hilarious Histograms. Analyzing and Creating
The students will be using real life data to create and analyze histograms. They will be surveying their classmates and using data from other grade levels to compare same topic information in a histogram.
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Better Lesson: Box and Whiskers... Analyzing and Creating
The students will be using discovery techniques to learn about box and whisker plots.
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Better Lesson: Line Graph Activity
Data collected is represented in tables and the students will need to choose what they want to represent in their line graph.