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Balancing Discoveries
Learners use a balance to help them with their addition facts. In this addition lesson plan, students also play the seven up game to memorize their facts.
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Finding Sums to 6
Students explore the additive identity property where they add multiple numbers to get to the number 6. In this number 6 lesson plan, students also work on their addition charts.
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Building Sets of Nine
Students match quantities to their number. In this building to nine instructional activity, students put groups of objects together to make a group of nine.
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How Many More?
Students complete subtraction problems where they use goldfish crackers as their manipulatives in the problem. In this subtraction lesson plan, students use words and pictures to also show their problems.
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Using the Number Line to Compare
Students determine differences using a number line. In this math lesson, students use the number line to solve subtraction problems. Students solve puzzles using subtraction.
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Geoboards
Students describe shapes to their classmates using specific properties and practice making triangles on geoboards. In this geoboards lesson plan, students use string on the geoboards.
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Exploring Patterns
Students explore patterns. In this math lesson, students use a variety of objects to create patterns. Students answer questions about the patterns they create.
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Sorting Buttons
Learners demonstrate how to sort buttons by attributes. In this classification lesson, students are given buttons and are asked to sort them independently by their attributes. Additionally, learners are given one extra button after they...
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Counting People
Students practice counting. In this counting activity, students are used to help visually represent a number for their classmates.
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Stacking Chips
Young scholars examine the outcome of adding one to a group of items. In this number sense lesson, students create stacks of chips and count them. Then, young scholars add one more chip to the stack and count the chips again. Students...
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Associative Properties
Students investigate the associative property of addition. In this associative property of addition activity, students work in pairs and build addition problems with six blocks. They sit on either side of a desk so that they can "read"...
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Modeling Spatial Relationships
Learners model spatial relationships using math manipulatives. In this spatial relationships instructional activity, students work with a partner, and either connecting links or linking cubes that are three different colors. They explain...
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Guess the Container
Young scholars become familiar with appropriate containers for various shapes. In this container lesson, students find containers that best fit their object.
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Months of the Year
Young scholars develop a pictograph using the months of the year. For this months lesson, students place their name with their birth month on a large pictograph. They discuss the information they can see on the graph using the proper...
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Classroom Idea: Building a Road
Young scholars explore technology by conducting a infrastructure role-play in class. In this road building lesson, students identify the techniques and manpower used to build a modern day road. Young scholars utilize building blocks to...
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Estimation Skills
Students use a balance scale with beans or seeds to estimate how many of them would weigh as much as a teddy bear counter. In this estimation lesson plan, students hold items to estimate.
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Making Graphs
Young scholars explore statistics by conducting class demographic surveys. In this graph making lesson, students identify the family members of each classmate, pets they own, and favorite activities. Young scholars organize their...
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Indoor and Outdoor Patterns
Students explore geometry by participating in a visual illustration activity. In this pattern identification lesson plan, students explore inside their classroom and discuss patterns they find while tracing them on paper. Students attend...
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Fishing Adventures 1
Often inequalities exist in many real-world contexts but young math learners struggle with understanding how to represent that relationship in a simple equation using an inequality. This activity focuses on the basic concepts by using...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Peter's Chair (Keats)
A new baby means a lot of changes for Peter! Ezra Jack Keats presents this common childhood experience in his story Peter's Chair, the context of a detailed vocabulary study. Before you read, introduce the three new words scholars will...
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A Bobbie Bear's Buttons
Young mathematicians help Bobbie Bear pick colored buttons out of a box as they learn how to decompose numbers less than 10 into pairs of smaller numbers. To support students with the process, consider creating a worksheet or graphic...
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Memory Uses
Students discuss importance of memory, identify products that have memory, explain difference between three stages of memory, including immediate, short-term, and long-term, watch video, and use short-term memory to play memory game.
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Some Special Sums
Pupils study addition. In this math lesson, students solve doubles and doubles plus one addition facts. Pupils roll dice and use the numbers to create addition problems.
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Multiple Patterns
Young scholars explore patterns that involve doubling numbers. In this multiple patterns lesson, students use objects to explore these patterns while recording them using a table. Young scholars recognize even and odd number patterns...