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In the Bag!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students calculate how many quarters are in a $1,000 bag (after learning the dollar value of filled coin bags). They explain their problem-solving strategy using pictures, numbers, equations, and/or words.
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Pumpkin Circuit

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students complete a variety of activities using pumpkins. They visit various stations with various pumpkin activities.
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Cuisenaire Chefs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study the fractional values of Cuisenaire rods while working with favorite family recipes.
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Solving Word Problems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the different techniques for solving Word Problems.
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Subtraction Shopping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners subtract two digit numbers. They check each other's answers for accuracy.
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Mapping with a Compass: A Simulated Survey

For Teachers 4th
Students use compasses and grids to map the locations of artifacts found in a simulated dig site. In groups, they role-play as future archeologists excavating a school site. Groups begin at their assigned datum and site the artifacts...
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The Multiplier (2-digit by 2-digit numbers)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders Split a 2-digit number into tens and ones. They use The Multiplier to partition and solve 2-digit by 2-digit multiplications. They describe how to solve 2-digit by 2-digit multiplications using a diagram.
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I'm a Weather Watcher Watching plants grow by......my,my,my

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate how weather affects how plants grow. They collect data on weather and plant growth for a week and display the data on a graph. For a culminating experience they design a movie using software that shows plant growth...
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Rounding

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rounding worksheet, students solve 40 problems in which whole numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. 100 or 1000. Students also round to the nearest dollar.
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Elapsed Time Two

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study how to calculate elapsed time. In this elapsed time lesson, they determine how to calculate the ending time of an event when they are given the starting time and the elapsed time. They participate in direct instruction,...
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Metric Olympic Games

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students participate in a metric Olympics. In this metric measurement lesson, students participate in 6 events that require them to predict, estimate, and measure lengths, masses, and area in metric units.
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The Meaning of Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this fractions worksheet, students complete different kinds of fraction problems. Students complete 50 problems total where they solve, shade, and put numbers into a chart.
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School Store

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a worksheet where they calculate costs of items in a school store by using multiplication. In this multiplication lesson plan, 4th graders find the total cost of all the supplies and the cost per item.
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Adding Common Fractions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders estimate various measurements. In this lesson on measurement, 4th graders estimate the length and mass of multiple objects. Students discuss the difference between a guess and a reasonable estimate and discuss using...
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How Many Critters Live Here? Estimating Wildlife Populations.

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine how wildlife biologists estimate the population of particular species. They work on map construction and population sampling. They use sampling to estimate the population of spiders in a study area or a forest.
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Addition - What Are the Missing Numbers?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this addition worksheet, students determine what the missing numbers are in 8 two digit addition problems; either finding the sum or an addend. They estimate and calculate each answer in 4 three and four digit addition problems.
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Around We Go

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate a range of circles, each with a different radius, diameter and circumference and assemble this information in their search for relationships.The measurement of circles and the relationships to be found within...
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Picture the Problem

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create an illustration of how to solve math problems. They use appropriate resources for solving the problems. Students have to demonstrate how drawing diagrams and using pictures can help them by using KidPix. On Slide One,...
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A Rounding Review

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand with this fun lesson centered around a visit to the computer lab.
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Raise It or Rest It

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders round to the thousands place using a rhyme.
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Circles and Clocks, Shapes and Time

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work in groups to research clocks and practice telling time. In this telling time instructional activity, students use the computer program ProQuest to study circles, including radius and diameter, and practice drawing circles...
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How Many Months?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate the first Peter the Mint Eagle, who lived at the Philadelphia Mint from 1830 to 1836. They determine how many months Peter was there and use pictures, numbers, equations, and/or words to explain how they came up with...
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What Does Waste Do to a River?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students develop a graphic way of visualizing the concept of a million by utilizing what had happened to the Nashua River due to the dumping of raw sewage in 1962.
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Deer Tracks

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use satellite images to track to movement patterns of deer and examine deer behavior. They write stories about a day in the life of a field scientist.

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