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Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking. Pictures and videos of the...
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Sorting Shapes [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
This task challenges a students knowledge of 2-dimensional geometrical shapes to sort shapes and to design a shape that has a given set of attributes.
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Better Lesson: So Many Squares! Red & Blue Sort It Out

For Teachers K Standards
SWBAT sort squares by color into 2 sets or groups.
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Better Lesson: Sorting by Color

For Teachers K Standards
Counting bears that are the same size and shape help students focus on just one attribute.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Sort and Count Ii

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to sort the same set of objects according to different attributes and to practice counting to tell the number of objects in a set. The teacher should accept any way the child wants to sort the...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Sorico: Describing and Comparing Measurable Attributes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The following unit can be used to teach measurable attributes. Students will describe and compare two objects with a measurable concept in common using direct comparison. Included are necessary vocabulary, a scavenger hunt, and links to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Sort and Count I

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will have fun moving around the room and comparing items using sorting cards. They will become familiar with the math vocabulary more/less/same and most/least.
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Pre K Pages: Sorting Activities for Preschool

For Teachers Pre-K
This article contains activities and ideas for teaching sorting skills in preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classrooms. Teach children to sort using various attributes.
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Stay at Home Educator: Colors and Shapes Sorting Activities for Preschoolers

For Teachers Pre-K
Sorting activities are the perfect way to help children learn to classify their world from the start. This article explains why this skill is so important in the "real world" and contains a list of sorting activities for preschoolers.
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Better Lesson: Super Sorter! Multiple Attribute Sorting With a Venn Diagram

For Teachers K Standards
Understanding multiple attributes is an important mathematical process. The students use their knowledge of Venn Diagrams in this lesson to gain more knowledge about this concept.
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Better Lesson: Sorting by Size

For Teachers K Standards
Sorting is an important foundational skills for kindergarten students to learn. Using attribute blocks to sort by size helps students practice comparing objects and prepares them to sort by other measurable attributes.
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Better Lesson: Sorting by Shape

For Teachers K Standards
Sorting is an important foundational skills for kindergarten students to learn. Using attribute blocks to sort by shape helps students practice comparing objects and prepares them to sort measurable attributes.
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Better Lesson: Count the Ways to Have Fun! Sorting on the I Pad

For Teachers K Standards
A part of the sorting and classifying standard that can be overlooked relates to assigning a number count to a group of similar objects. This lesson helps students find similar groups and practice counting and relating numbers to their...
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Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 1.g 3 D Shape Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
As a whole group, learners will sort a collection of three-dimensional objects into categories by shape. There should be several that fall into each of the categories below: Aligns with 1.G.A.1.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Camp Day 1

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Peg and Cat are helping the Farmer today, and they have a lot of work to do! Today's activities include welcoming campers, introducing camp, sorting animals, collecting 100 chickens, planting vegetables, and solving some really big...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Guess My Button

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This website gives students an opportunity to sort and classify attributes of a group. The applet responds to each selection made and guides student to the next step.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Critical thinking, comprehension and analysis skills are the focus of this physical activity. Good beginning to teaching different ways of looking at things.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Goodie Bags

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Pairs of students will compare 3 quantities and order them from least to greatest. Students will select a pre-filled baggie and sort and count the contents. They will then arrange each group in order from least to most. This activity can...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Md.2, 5 Sounds Really Good! (Sort Of)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A friend of yours, Phil, writes to you asking about a new scratch-off lottery game. It costs $10 to play this game. There are two outcomes for the game (win, lose) and the probability that a player wins a game is 60%. A win results in...
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Classifying Quadrilaterals

For Students 4th - 6th
This multimedia that includes a short video [1:19] and other interactive activities on Learn Alberta math resource looks at real-world examples of shape classification in the investigation and solving of crimes. The accompanying...
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Better Lesson: Domestic vs. Wild

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Sorting items help students develop language skills as they describe attributes and qualities to determine which category is the best fit for an item. The teacher will introduce the definitions of wild and domestic by reading the book...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Rocks, Rocks Everywhere

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will sort rocks based upon color, hardness, texture, layering, and particle size.,

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