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Better Lesson: What Can We Do With Math
This instructional activity requires students to think independently to problem solve using math. Lesson includes a video and pictures to help you implement this instructional activity.
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Better Lesson: Put It All Together
A lesson plan for helping students to solve real world problems by using their mathematical tools.
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Better Lesson: We Are All a Happy Fact Family
Explore the relationship between addition and subtraction with this instructional activity. Help students understand that "every subtraction fact has a related addition number sentence, and every addition fact has a related subtraction...
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Better Lesson: What Is a Digit
A lesson for students extend their understanding of the place value system. Students will learn how to define a digit and also identify a digit located in the ones place, the tens place, and the 100s place.
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Better Lesson: I've Got More Than You
Do your students only think of "take away" when talking about subtraction. "The goal of this activity is to allow students to see the comparison (difference) between two numbers." Lessons includes pictures and other documents to support...
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Better Lesson: Much Much More Than Take Away
Help your students solve subtraction number sentences by using the part/part/whole model. This lesson shows students how to separate parts from a whole or by comparison to understand the subtraction number sentences. Lesson includes...
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: What if the World Were 100 People?
Sixth graders learn about statistics and the process of doing statistics as an introduction to the 100 Students Project they will conduct about themselves and their classmates.
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Better Lesson: 3 D Figures and Nets
Sixth graders explore cube nets in an effort to understand what properties are common to all nets that form a cube. Students work hands-on with nets and are then pushed to use their experience to visually determine whether other nets...
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Better Lesson: Finding Arrays in an Irregular Polygon
Third graders decompose an irregular polygon into arrays to find the area.
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Better Lesson: Finding Angles
The three types of angles, right, acute, and obtuse, exist in our everyday surroundings. Students find these angles using classroom items.
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Better Lesson: Geometry Shape Book
Third graders develop their understanding of the importance of different 2-dimensional shapes by finding real world examples.
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Better Lesson: Graphing Our Favorite Ice Cream
Third graders can collect and represent data with a unique scale.
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Better Lesson: Foods Third Graders Like
Third graders gather simple data, represent it on a bar graph, and answer simple, complex, and open-ended questions about the data.
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Better Lesson: Graphing Meaningful Data
Students use their timed test scores to create a bar graph that compares their progress in learning math facts.
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Better Lesson: Finding What's Missing
Third graders can solve real world problems using their understanding of multiplication and division and the relationship they share.
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Better Lesson: Fractional Parts of an Hour: An Investigation
Third graders explain that an hour can be written as several different fractions. They will color representative segments on a clock.
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Better Lesson: Fun With Four: Decomposing to Known Factors of 1, 2, and 5
Third graders act as problem solvers to take an unknown fact and solve it by breaking it down into pieces that are known.
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Better Lesson: Following Rules
Fourth graders often confuse skip counting with finding a rule or pattern for a given set of numbers. Here, they focus on how one number relates to the next and extend the pattern to determine the rule.
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Better Lesson: Finding the Right Place!
Second graders use numbers, base-ten models, and real-word pictures to examine ways to place numbers in their correct place.
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Better Lesson: Go Fishing for a Ten
Second graders use a familiar card game to help them build their math fact fluency for facts where the sum is 10.
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Better Lesson: Getting Paid for Our Work
Second graders see how money is used to buy and sell items. They will participate in an activity to see how people get money.
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Better Lesson: Fractions of Time and Money
People talk about quarters of the hour, or quarters in a dollar. This lesson lets students in on what that means.
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Better Lesson: Graphing Our Snack Mix: Review of Graphing
Second graders review how to make bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs by tallying the contents of snack mix and building graphs to show their data.
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Better Lesson: Going for the Gold
Second graders read and create graphs based on Olympic data for 2014.