Curated OER
Getting nosy
A nose knows! Connect animals to their noses with a fun science activity. Animals include elephants, rats, pigs, and even humans. For a science exploration, kindergartners answer questions about what they can smell. A great addition to...
Sea World
Seaworld Science Activity
A fun collection of activities about marine life would be a great addition to your elementary science unit. From cute penguins to scary sharks, the unit features crafts, experiments, and basic research projects that will teach your...
Curated OER
Number Tick Tack Toe
Students practice basic addition and subtraction facts to twelve. They use high level thinking skills to win at the game of tick tack toe. Students review the rules to the game. They use strategy skills to master the game.
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PIG/HOG - Activity
Students play PIG, which is an addition game, played between two or more students (but they CAN play alone!). The first player rolls the 6-sided, pip dice. They add up the total by counting the pips, using their fingers.
Curated OER
Teaching of Addition
Students add different objects together to find out how many objects there are total. They explain up to 3 different reasons why being able to add is important.
Curated OER
Counting on Art
Explore the life and painting style of African-American artist Horace Pippin by looking carefully at its parts, then create a "secret number" painting for a classroom counting book.
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Frisbee Baseball
Students keep track of the number of tosses it takes them to reach each base, and encourage team members and recognize their successes. To make this activity fit the level of older classes, measure distances and figure averages as you play!
Curated OER
Great Picture Books to Teach Social Studies for Grade K-3
Every class enjoys reading new books at the beginning of a unit. Use this resource to identify a variety of books for kindergarten to third grade that can be used to complement social studies standards. The books can kindle learners'...
Curated OER
Hooray for Hand-Me-Downs!
Youngsters learn how "hand-me-downs" can help save money while practicing math word problems with this fun learning center activity.
Curated OER
Fair Shares
Students investigate division by sharing food items with their classmates. In this division lesson, students are given a food item which they must equally share among the class using division. Students predict how many...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Selecting the Related Addition Fact
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to determine which addition fact is related to the given addition problem. The video uses vocabulary of addends and sum. The video is...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Musical Math Facts: Lesson Plan
Combine mental math with physical activity to engage students and increase overall fitness. This lesson plan describes a twenty to twenty five minute series of activities that require pre-made math flashcards that can be easily created...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Addition Sentences Up to Sum Ten
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video uses pictures to determine which set of pictures represents the addition problem 3 + 6 = 9. The video is followed by practice problems.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teaching Tips: Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (1St Grade)
Use these teaching tips from the PBS Kids Lab to help children make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equations, use addition and subtraction within 20 to...
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Elementary Addition
This resource offers six brief arithmetic lessons: sums less than ten, sums of ten, and sums between ten and twenty, doubling, zero, and a set of general practice problems.
Other
Pep: Hit the Deck: A Collection of Math Games
This is a collection of math games ranging from Kindergarten to the upper elementary grades, using only an ordinary deck of playing cards. There are games covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percents,...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Math Man Jr.
Math Man Jr. is an elementary activity to practice addition and subtraction math facts. Solve math problems and avoid the ghosts! Fun for children of all ages!
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: The Meaning of Subtraction, and Mental Calculation
This website explains and defines basic subtraction. There are practice problems at the very end of this lesson.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Addition Sums to Ten
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video uses a model to aide in showing how to add numbers up to ten. In addition to the video, there is a PLIX interactive challenge where students answer...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Adding by Counting On
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video uses counting on to solve an addition problem with sums to ten. The video is followed by practice problems.
Math Fact Cafe
Math Fact Cafe: Pre Made Second Grade Worksheets
Choose from a list of pre-made arithmetic worksheets designed for second graders.
abcteach
Abcteach: Math Posters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Most of the posters on this site are colorful math posters for primary or elementary school. However, there is one math poster that could be used in secondary school geometry class that has the formulas...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Word Questions: Elementary Subtraction
Simple word problems challenge your subtraction skills. If you get stuck, use the clues and the number line for help.