Young learners listen to a read aloud of Gail Gibbons book, Apples and the story A Red House With No Windows and No Doors. They compare characteristics of a number of kinds of apples, graph them and create a apple print picture. Learners...

Students simulate a Mayan market place, and "purchase" items. They keep a record of their purchases and total number of beans left in their account. Students then convert the Mayan base system into the base ten system. This lesson...

First graders listen to the story, Olivia Counts, and demonstrate counting to ten. They make predictions, and recognize the day and night sky. They add page number 2 to their counting books.

Students gather data on top 10 highest grossing movies, and make a bar graph and a pictogram.

Early learners rotate to different classroom centers and participate in six activities based on using marshmallows to review concepts learned. They make: marshmallow sculptures (geometric shapes), the shape of mittens using colored...

Students choose a number from one to twelve and tell a number story about it. They listen to the teacher read "Numbers in Art" by Lucy Micklethwait. Students choose three numbers from one to twelve and view works of art while looking for...

There are four main topics in this bundle of lesson plans. They don't need to be taught sequentially. Each lesson has three parts: a starter, a main activity, and something to help consolidate and provide reflection on concepts learned.

First graders integrate math with an upper body movement exercise. Students practice the proper push-up position. The teacher spreads paper numbers in front of the students. (Begin with the numbers 1-9.) Students must "walk" in a push-up...

Give household materials new life by turning them into a plankton net. Scholars design and build a net to collect and filter plankton from water. They test out their creations by using glitter to represent plankton. The nets need to...

Students brainstorm theme for counting book, work in pairs to create book using Kid Pix that shows numbers one through ten, make correct number of pictures or stamps to correspond to numerals on pages, and print out pages to be bound...

Students use pictures to identify items as ordinal numbers. In this ordinal numbers lesson plan, students use the words "before" and "after" to identify the pictures as well.

Students explore numbers, computation, ratios, proportions, probabilities, statistics, and money in this six lessons unit. Practical applications in the real world are emphasized through an interactive approach to math in these lessons.

Third graders select characters from books they have read to create character maps. After drawing the maps, they add the characteristics around a sketch of their chosen character. In groups, 3rd graders who have read the same book,...

Young scholars make a model of the Earth's crust out of foam in order to better explain the make-up of the Earth's layers. They add continents and oceans.

Students create a graph charting their favorite season. They discuss the difference in the four seasons and activities they participate in, in each of the seasons. They can also take a survey of their family members and add them to the...

First graders explore the day and night sky and add a page for the number 7 to their countiing books.

Read aloud your choice of books about counting on and counting back (a list is provided, or tell stories of your own). Your learners will write horizontal equations to portray what happens in the story. They build a paper chain and...

Students create a class story using picture cards. Each student picks a card, tapes it to the board, and retells the story in sequential order using the words then and next.

Students explore consumer math by participating in estimate exercises. In this currency lesson, students identify and define each piece of U.S. currency and their value to the monetary system. Students complete several money worksheets...

Students develop a budget spreadsheet to manage finances for their business.  For this finance lesson, students use a spreadsheet program to create a budget with credit and debit columns.  There are step-by-step directions for...

Third graders design and make clocks compiling a materials list, creating adesign portfolio, and recording progress in a daily log. After making a full-size drawing of their clocks and with the assistance of high school technology...

Third graders develop an appreciate for the various cultures that are present in their local community. Through reading and research, they explain how various culture came to live in their area. At the conclusion of the unit, 3rd...

Students create a notebook with divisibility rules in it. In this algebra activity, students write down the rules that determine the factors of a number. They continue to add to the book and use it to help them on their problems.

Students count back with cubes to model subtraction problems. In this subtraction lesson plan, students compare sets of problems and record their results in a table.