This lesson requires students to think independently to problem solve using math. Lesson includes a video and pictures to help you implement this lesson.

Students should develop an awareness of and correctly use the classroom tools that are available to assist them with their mathematical learning. This lesson introduces them to math manipulatives and a math journal. Videos of students...

Second graders have worked with models and strategies to solve a variety of math problems. Today they will need to use those strategies to complete the math tasks.

SWBAT identify the math all around them and explain their thinking.

SWBAT take the data from class and home and create comparisons of the different ways math is used by adults.

A lesson where students collect trash, sort, and record the mass in grams. They will use their knowledge of numbers to figure out what category of trash had the most. The biggest idea of the lesson is that students will be more likely to...

Common Core standards encourage the use of models to build understanding in math. This lesson shows sometimes reluctant 2nd graders that models are helpful tools in solving mathematical problems.

I want my students to realize that numbers are everywhere and math is applicable to almost all other subjects. Geography offers a perfect opportunity for students to make this connection.

Patterns are prevalent in all levels of math. Common Core Standards expect students to be able to use structure - like that found in repeating the patterns of odd and even numbers or counting by 5s or 10s - to solve problems (MP7).

Second graders love to talk about pets and in this lesson they can share how many pets they have.

It is important to assess students periodically to plan for future lessons to meet student needs.

Second graders oftentimes struggle with comparison problems since there is no "action" in the problem (i.e.: nothing is getting taken away or added). In this lesson, 2nd graders practice strategies for solving comparison problems.

Second graders solve change unknown story problems using a number line. This lesson gives students a new strategy to attach change unknown word problems.

This lesson is an informal assessment of student understanding of the base ten system, a critical area in the Common Core.

The big idea of this lesson is that three (or more) numbers can be grouped together and added. The order of this grouping doesn't matter.

Students learn how to construct shapes and understand the properties of these shapes. The lesson plan includes an overview and a lesson plan toolkit.

Students investigate the concept of a number as a quantity. The lesson plan includes an overview and a instructional activity toolkit.

Learners investigate the concept of a number as a quantity. The activity has learners convert back and forth between decimal and binary expansions of numbers. The lesson plan includes an overview and a lesson toolkit.

Learners explore connections between addition, subtraction, and multiplication. In addition, students review place value and learn about the distributive law. The lesson plan includes an overview and a lesson toolkit.

Second graders should be able to recognize what makes one number greater or smaller than another, using place value understanding which is crucial to Common Core mastery. This lesson combines math and science by having students order...

The number line is a powerful math tool students can use to model their thinking when solving addition and subtraction problems. Use this lesson to help students use the number line to count forwards and backwards from 0 to 30.

Second graders use their knowledge of place value to determine whether a comparison statement is true or false.

Patterns are everywhere. We can use patterns to help us deal with larger numbers

Second graders can find patterns in 4-digit numbers that will help them when counting over decades and centuries.