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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students combine sets of rods and cubes to get a total number. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students use popcorn to teach math concepts including place value, estimating, graphing, and volume. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students explore place value, estimating, graphing, and volume using popcorn. They estimate how many popcorn kernels are in a jar, sort kernels into groups of ten, estimate kernels of corn on a cob, and graph survey questions. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students examine place value of ones and tens using unifix cubes and a place value chart. They receive a handful of objects from a partner, estimate how many there are, put them in groups of tens, and add on the rest as ones before writing the number. Finally, the add numbers using the word form. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students discuss as a class the largest number that can be written in a place value chart using hundreds, tens, and ones. The class then observes as the teacher and two student volunteers use unifix cubes to create various three digit numbers. Then students practice making three digit numbers by playing a place value game. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students explore a variety of estimation strategies. They discuss how to use truncation and rounding numbers. Students practice rounding numbers to the appropriate place value. They discuss the strategies used to help them round numbers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students observe and demonstrate how to estimate numbers. They define key vocabulary terms, observe the teacher modeling examples of rounding to the appropriate place value, rounding up, truncation, front-end estimation, and rounding to compatible numbers, and independently complete a worksheet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students use unifex cubes and other objects that stack together to investigate place value. The students work with a partner. They count the unifex cubes and then place the amount on the place value chart after estimating the totals. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students participate in a lesson that explores the mathematical concept of place value. The lesson uses a question and answer format. The transcript is included in the lesson plan. The instructor clarifies the answers and possible mistakes as the discussion takes place. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students pretend they need to buy compact discs for their best friend's birthday. Using the internet, they find the best value for the music their friend likes the best. To end the lesson, they make a chart showing the total cost and share it with the class. Full Review »

