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Curated OER

Comparing Two Digit Numbers Using Symbols

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders compare two digit numbers. In this comparing numbers instructional activity, 2nd graders discover greater than and less than symbols. Students read Five Little Monkeys Sitting In A Tree and use the story as a model for...
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

Base Ten Mat (Tens and Ones with Tens Frame)

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Working with base 10 blocks? Use this base 10 mat to organize blocks, tens and ones with one ten frame, and determine how many groups of blocks can be used to represent numbers.  
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

Base Ten Mat (Tens and Ones)

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
When working with base blocks, you need a base ten mat. Well, here it is! Organize your tens and ones using this mat to represent, count, and examine numbers. 
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Curated OER

Dinosaur Math

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read How to Train with a T.Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals and solve math problems.  In this dinosaur math lesson, students write a math story to go with the dinosaur story.  Students discuss the needed strategies. Students complete a...
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Education World

Counting with Marshmallows and Licorice

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Here's a tasty lesson on place value! Learners practice counting by ones and tens using mini-marshmallows and licorice sticks. They count and add the mini-marshmallows, and use the licorice sticks to represents tens.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Kiri's Mathematics Match Game

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Learning math is so much more fun when it involves playing games. Following the rules of the classic game Memory, young mathematicians flip over two cards at a time as they look for numbers whose sum or difference is equal to the value...
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Curated OER

The Price Is Right - TV Game Show

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play variation of TV game show "The Price is Right" to identify coins and their values.
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Curated OER

Chisanbop (Korean Counting to 99)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice their counting skills. In this counting lesson, students discover the Chisanbop method of counting which allows them to quickly count to 99 using their hands.
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NTTI

Putting Together Ten

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Groups explore sets of 10 items in two varieties (i.e. 3 white buttons and 7 black ones, or 5 bears and 5 bunnies). They brainstorm about their objects, write math sentences to represent what they have, and report their discoveries to...
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Curated OER

Math, Music and Architecture: Kindergarten Geometry and Aesthetics in Music and Architecture

For Teachers K - 8th
Students identify and name different geometrical shapes. In this math instructional activity, students distinguish odd from even numbers. They describe the properties of 2 and 3 dimensional objects.
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Curated OER

The School Store

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students choose between the operations of addition or subtraction to solve a real life problem. In this addition and subtraction instructional activity, students make a chart of items sold in the school store. Students then work in teams...
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Curated OER

One Hundred Things

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners practice estimating by handling items in groups of ten. They visualize how much space 100 items, such as pennies, peas, or beans, will take up after holding 10 of them. Students measure the difference in volume between 10 and...
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Curated OER

How Many Ways?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders develop number sense. In this number sense lesson, 2nd graders use multiple ways to represent numbers including written numerals, tally marks and manipulatives. Students correctly use place value to the thousands place.
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Curated OER

Which Number is Greater?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students draw pictures of two digit numbers to identify the greater value. In this math lesson, students plot two digit numbers on a number line and identify the greatest or lesser value. Students use the greater than and less than...
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Worksheet
Noyce Foundation

Apple Farm Field Trip

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Monitor the growth of young mathematicians with a comprehensive addition and subtraction assessment. Using the context of a class field trip to an apple orchard, this series of four story problems allows children to demonstrate their...
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Curated OER

Math: Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice addition and subtraction skills by visiting Web sites with math games, quizzes, and related activities They play various games involving sports, racing, and catching fireflies while improving basic math skills..
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Illustrative Mathematics

Regrouping

For Students 2nd Standards
What number does 6 tens and 16 ones represent? How is it different from or similar to the number that 7 tens and 6 ones represent? This is the type of questions learners are asked to solve as a way to understand the concept of regrouping.
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Curated OER

Money: Demonstrating Coin Value up to $1.00

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine coin values up to $1.00 using paper coins. In this coin value lesson, students compare and contrast various coins to aid in identification, sort coins from smallest to largest, and match an equal number of pennies to...
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Unit Plan
Out-of-School Time Resource Center

Nutrition and Physical Activity

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Emerging nutritionists explore what it means to be healthy. In the beginning of the unit, your class will examine the five food groups and learn how food gets from the farm to our plates. This leads into the investigation of the...
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Curated OER

Exploring Teen Numbers

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore place value.  In this numeration lesson, students use ten frames to represent numbers greater than ten.  Students read two digit numerals and build the corresponding number using counters and ten frames.  Students...
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Curated OER

Using "Kindness"

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners discover the benefits of kind acts by dissecting the word itself.  In this vocabulary lesson, students utilize the letters in the word "kindness" to create other words which they record.  Learners figure out what "kindness"...
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Curated OER

Introducing money (Elementary, Mathematics)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, one each day for four days, using a magnifying glass to identify the similarities. Then students discuss differences and value and learn a 'rap' to memorize values.
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Curated OER

Coin Carnival

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the value of coins. For this coin value lesson, students read The Penny Pot by Stuart Murphy. Students expand on skills learned in the book and engage in activities to determine the value of a mixed set of coins...
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Curated OER

Battle of "The Cents"

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore money. In this counting money lesson, students play a card game using the rules of "War." Students turn over cards, determine the money value represented, and the student with the highest value keeps the cards.

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