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Measurements: Inches

For Teachers K - 3rd
Children solve problems involving measurement using information taken from various items measured (wooden blocks and boxes). This is a particularly good lesson to use when introducing how to use a ruler and how to add inches together in...
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Shaping Up!

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergartners are introduced to basic shapes. Learners spend 45 minutes a day in geometry centers carrying out the activities outlined in this ambitious plan. There are games, hands-on activities, interactive websites, art projects,...
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Design Patterns

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars extend and create patterns. Through a variety of activities, they discover patterns as they exist in math and their everyday lives. Students create a necklace that represents a pattern.
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Missing Tens

For Students 1st - 2nd
Foster mental math skills with this worksheet; combine with 10-rods to modify. Twenty problems provide plenty of practice to master subracting by tens. Missing addends promote algebraic thinking. 
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Identify Coins

For Students 1st - 2nd
Kill two birds with one stone (as they say). Your class can practice problem solving skills, basic addition and subtraction, as well as work on coin values. This learning exercise includes six money related word problems to solve.
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Arizona State University

Roundup Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Let's study 2-D shapes! Young mathematicians compare and classify shapes according to attributes. They evaluate shape riddles and predict the shape being described. Here is the website where you can find the lesson...
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Are You Sleeping?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a measurement lesson focusing on length. Learners use their feet as the unit of measurement for furniture in the classroom and at home, and sketch the pieces of furniture they measured.
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Measurement Masterpiece

For Teachers K - 5th
Here is a good, cross-curricular measurement and estimation lesson. Learners practice measuring paper strips to create an art project. This is a great way to introduce the ruler, and how it used, to your students.
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Montana Office of Public Instruction

Eat Smart Be Smart

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Get children's blood pumping with this primary grade lesson on the human heart. After learning about the important role this muscle plays in the human body, young scholars monitor their heart rates and discover the importance...
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Same As

For Teachers K - 3rd
Explore the concept of the equals symbol. In this mathematical symbols activity, learners discover the meaning of the equals sign (symbol). They also construct addition and subtraction sentences to understand the concept of equal parts.
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Reception

For Teachers Pre-K - K
A nice lesson on recognizing and counting from one to nine is here for you. In it, learners hold up number cards which reflect the number of monkeys who are left during a reading of the story, "How Many Monkey's Left?" A simple lesson...
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Add Three Single Digits

For Students 1st - 2nd
The focus of this lesson is practice. Included are 14 worksheets each containing 10 simple single digit problems, where 3 digits are added together to find a sum. Problems are presented in both horizontal and vertical fashion. Note: This...
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Circles, Squares, Triangles and Rectangles In Our World

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Here is an engaging geometry lesson which has students identify the properties of shapes and cut shapes out of magazines. They make cookies using cookie cutters in various shapes.
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Relate Counting to Addition and Subtraction

For Students 1st - 3rd
Your math scholars may recognize patterns, but do they know they can use them to practice addition and subtraction? This worksheet has scholars counting by threes, fours, and sixes to analyze number patterns and complete a...
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Number Line Locomotion

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a great lesson that incorporates movement into academic learning. Students improve addition subtraction skills by using number lines and locomotor movement.
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It's in Your Pocket

For Teachers K - 4th
Students examine American coins. In this American currency lesson, students study how American money came to be as well as the responsibilities of the U.S. Mint. Students discover details regarding American coins and design their own coins.
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Critical Thinking Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Teach your readers to be critical thinkers. A strategy is outlined that can be used to compare and contrast entities. An example lists four states. The learner removes one state that "does not belong" in the list for some reason, and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

A Bobbie Bear's Buttons

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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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Count And Add Nickels

For Teachers 1st
This math lesson focuses on coins - specifically the nickel. Students use plastic nickles in order to gain practice counting by fives, and adding amounts of cents. Students complete a worksheet where they tally up different amounts of...
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Candy Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars practice computation.  In this addition and subtraction math lesson, students count M & Ms and Skittles to answer math problems and complete a related worksheet.
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Activity Plan 5-6: Architects at Work

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars build on what they know to make new discoveries. For this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a block-building activity to develop language, math, and fine-motor skills.
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Sum It Up!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars practice addition facts. In this math lesson, students play "Sum it Up" in order in increase their speed in recalling their addition facts.
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Part-Part-Whole

For Teachers 1st
First graders work with partners, using cubes to make addition sentences. In this math lesson, 1st graders separate cubes into 2 parts and discuss the relationship to addition sentences. Students practice separating cubes. Students make...
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Finding Patterns with Frogs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create patterns. In this math instructional activity, students complete and create patterns using pattern blocks or disks. Students analyze the patterns they see.

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