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Balancing Discoveries

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars use a balance to help them with their addition facts. In this addition lesson plan, students also play the seven up game to memorize their facts.
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Building Numbers to 5

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars compose groups of items up to the number 5. In this number 5 lesson plan, students also connect names to numbers, record sizes of groups, and compose and decompose groups.
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Building Sets of Nine

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners match quantities to their number.  In this building to nine instructional activity, students put groups of objects together to make a group of nine.
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Shirts Full of Buttons

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students match sets of buttons to complete subtraction problems. In this subtraction lesson plan, students answer the questions "how many more/less" and make bar graphs by counting up the buttons they are wearing.
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How Many More?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners complete subtraction problems where they use goldfish crackers as their manipulatives in the problem. In this subtraction lesson plan, students use words and pictures to also show their problems.
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Balancing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners use a balance to complete subtraction problems and weigh out the items they take away. For this subtraction lesson plan, students use a pan balance and record their equations.
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Hoping Backward to Solve Problems

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students use number lines to compare differences. In this math lesson, students use a number line to solve problems. Students predict differences and answer puzzles using subtraction.
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Practice Makes Perfect

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students study fact families. In this math activity, students use fact families to play a game of concentration. Students identify subtraction facts they need to learn.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Using the Number Line to Compare

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners determine differences using a number line. In this math lesson, students use the number line to solve subtraction problems. Learners solve puzzles using subtraction.
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Up on Top

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students make bar graphs and identify items in the bar graphs as being likely, certain, or impossible. In this bar graphs lesson plan, students answer questions about the bar graphs using reasoning and communication skills.
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Geoboards

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners describe shapes to their classmates using specific properties and practice making triangles on geoboards. In this geoboards lesson plan, students use string on the geoboards.
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Playing with Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students use objects and symbols to create original linear patterns. In this patterns lesson plan, students also translate patterns from one modality to another.
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Calculating Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students create numerical patterns by using an internet based calculator. In this patterns lesson plan, students complete, create, extend, and record different patterns.
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Sorting Buttons

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students demonstrate how to sort buttons by attributes. In this classification instructional activity, students are given buttons and are asked to sort them independently by their attributes. Additionally, students are given one extra...
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Counting People

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners practice counting. In this counting activity, students are used to help visually represent a number for their classmates. 
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Stacking Chips

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine the outcome of adding one to a group of items. For this number sense lesson, students create stacks of chips and count them. Then, students add one more chip to the stack and count the chips again. Students discuss their...
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Modeling Spatial Relationships

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students model spatial relationships using math manipulatives. In this spatial relationships lesson, students work with a partner, and either connecting links or linking cubes that are three different colors. They explain to each other...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Guess the Container

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students become familiar with appropriate containers for various shapes.  In this container lesson plan, students find containers that best fit their object. 
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Months of the Year

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students develop a pictograph using the months of the year. In this months lesson, students place their name with their birth month on a large pictograph. They discuss the information they can see on the graph using the proper names for...
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Classroom Idea: Building a Road

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils explore technology by conducting a infrastructure role-play in class. In this road building lesson plan, students identify the techniques and manpower used to build a modern day road. Pupils utilize building blocks to create a...
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Estimation Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use a balance scale with beans or seeds to estimate how many of them would weigh as much as a teddy bear counter. In this estimation lesson plan, students hold items to estimate.
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Exploring Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils explore patterns. In this math lesson, students use a variety of objects to create patterns. Pupils answer questions about the patterns they create.
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Making Graphs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore statistics by conducting class demographic surveys. In this graph making lesson, students identify the family members of each classmate, pets they own, and favorite activities. Students organize their statistics and...
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Indoor and Outdoor Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore geometry by participating in a visual illustration activity. In this pattern identification lesson, students explore inside their classroom and discuss patterns they find while tracing them on paper. Students attend an...

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