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Better Lesson: Think About Adding Nothing and a Little More
Lay the foundation for addition facts with introducing students to "the understanding that the number relationships between 0 more than, 1 more than, and 2 more". To help implement this lesson the website contains documents and videos.
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Better Lesson: Numbers Have Patterns
A lesson for students to recognize patterns in a number chart. Site includes documents and videos to help implement the lesson.
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Better Lesson: A Whole and Its Parts
Second graders take fractions apart and put them back together to form a whole.
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Better Lesson: Addition in the Real World
Think of addition in the real world as the joining of two parts to make a whole. The use of addition number sentences can show how we join the parts to make the whole.
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Better Lesson: Area Battles
Student-made monsters on grid paper are a great way to stimulate comparison problem-solving.
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Better Lesson: 3 Digit Perimeters
Second graders work with 3-digit numbers as they solidify their understanding of the difference between perimeter and area.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting With Lengths
Second graders will use their addition and subtraction strategies to measure and compare distances, solving using centimeter units.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Understanding that when the total number of parts of a whole are the same, fractions can be added.
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Better Lesson: "Time" for My Catch
The day has come for students to create their own fish and to make sure that it is a keeper. The students will also be introduced to the clock face and the idea of hour notation.
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Better Lesson: 20 Beans
Through a counting game called 20 Beans, 1st graders count a set of objects up to 20, starting at any number less than 20.
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Better Lesson: Amazing Atoms an Integrated Fraction Lesson
Fractions can help one understand the basic properties of elements.
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Better Lesson: 6th Grade Pretest
Assess students' prior knowledge of 6th grade math topics.
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Better Lesson: Act It Out!
First graders solve problems and begin to explore the counting on strategy!
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Better Lesson: Numerators and Denominators
Want to help students understand numerators and denominators? Use this lesson to help understand how numerators can change. Learn what happens when it changes. Also,what does that mean for how much of the whole I have. Lesson includes...
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Better Lesson: Where Would It Be?
A lesson to help conceptualize fractions as numbers. Students work to see fractions as a part of a whole and a length.
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Better Lesson: Subtracting Mixed Numbers
A lesson plan focused on subtracting mixed numbers using fraction strips and an interactive fraction pad.
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Better Lesson: Moving From Fractions to Decimals
Introduce students to decimals with this lesson. Students will explore how fractions can be changed to decimals with place value charts.
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Better Lesson: Magic of Adding Tens
Can your students make bundles of tens? This lesson allows students to visualize adding tens to make one hundred.
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Better Lesson: North of the Dungeon
Using castles and treasure maps, 2nd graders will learn how fractions are parts of a whole.
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Better Lesson: I Would Like to Be a Part of the Group!
Fourth graders will work in teams to discover how to read and write fractions that name a part of a group. The lesson will use a fraction pad so students can see how a number names a part of a whole or a part of a group. This website...
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Better Lesson: Area as an Architect (Stations Day 4 & Discussion)
Third graders use their understanding of area to have a meaningful debate about a building plan.
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Better Lesson: A Short Lesson in Graphing Ordered Pairs
Fourth graders practice graphing ordered pairs on IXL math and on a worksheet to create a picture.
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Better Lesson: Are They Really the Same?
Fourth graders often wonder how two things so different can end up being the same, in this instructional activity students will be exploring the relevance and how to determine if fractions are equivalent through a variety of ways.
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Better Lesson: Applying the Basics!
Using base-ten materials and place-value skills, 2nd graders gain a better understanding of how to add and subtract numbers.