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The Right Number of Elephants
How can you tell if a number of items is reasonable? Combine math and language arts with a fun lesson based on Jeff Shepard's The Right Number of Elephants. After reading the book, kids discuss amounts of other items and create...
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Let’s Count!: Challenge Activities (Theme 5)
Challenge young scholars with a counting-themed series of activities. Your counters will write invitations to a feast, create books about dinner parties and animals, design posters, draw pictures of their favorite peaceful places,...
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Gummy Candy Count
Use the book, The Gummy Candy Counting Book, to practice counting up to ten objects in a group. This activity nicely-combines language arts and math in a way that should lead to effective teaching.
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Arranging Numbers from 1 to 5
Kindergarteners arrange manipulatives or everyday objects in groups of one through five. They identify groups seen in pictures of nature and compare same numbers of different objects.
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Ones and Tens Place Value
As scholars examine place value, these exercises help them incorporate addition and grouping. First, they answer three missing-addend questions, each with 10 as the given addend. Because all of the missing numbers are single-digit, this...
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Group Into Fives or Tens
In this group into fives or tens worksheet, students circle groups of fives or tens to count the total number. In this drawing worksheet, students find ten groups of five.
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Count by Five's
In this counting by fives worksheet, students count multiple groups of five candy canes in each row and record the totals. Students solve 7 problems.
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Number Systems
Generating a system of shapes. Groups work together to create a number system using three different shapes as symbols. The groups should come up with the rules that generate all the possible permutations of the three shapes.
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Groups of Ten Ones
In this "groups of ten" worksheet, young scholars circle groups of ten cubes, then write how many rows of tens they have. Worksheet includes a brief introduction to counting groups of ten.
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The Number Match Game
Kindergarteners practice matching words and symbols by playing an index card activity. They create flash cards numbered 0 to 20 and challenge each other in groups to identify the values of the numbers. Learners utilize beans or buttons...
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Count by Tens (Flowers)
Skip counting by 10, young mathematicians determine the number of flowers (grouped by tens) in 6 different rows. They write the number alongside the flowers. Quantities range from 1 group (10) to 5 groups (50).
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Measure Area by Counting
If each square has sides measuring two centimeters, what is the area of this shape? Learners find area in five shapes segmented into squares with given sides. Encourage them to use square units in their answers. Next, they do the...
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Counting 1,2,3,4,5
In this counting worksheet, students count ten groups of objects and circle the number that tells how many are in each group. Amounts of each item vary from one through five.
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Count the Dots: 10 Plus More Makes 11-20
Young math learners count and circle a group of 10 dots. They count on the extras, and write the corresponding number between 11 and 20 in a box. Nine practice problems in all.
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Counting Numbers 0-30
Counting can be fun and it is always a good idea to begin counting practice with concrete objects. Kindergartners hear the story "Five Little Monkeys," then practice grouping, counting, and documenting (drawing) sets of five.
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Math Learning Song The Learning 1-5 Song
In this lesson, students sing a song about the numbers and counting 1-5. Students mimic the teachers as she sings each verse starting with the number one and continue through the number 5. This song gives students a guide for counting...
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Counting by Grouping Objects
Kids can count to 100 by 2's, 5's, and 10's, it's called counting by grouping. They are presented with a variety of counting tasks, they count each set of objects by 10's, 2's and 5's then discuss which method was quickest. A challenge...
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Visualizing Skip Counting by 2
Drawing pictures to solve math problems is not only a good problem solving strategy, it's also mathematical modeling. First graders read six basic word problems that have them skip count by twos to find the answer. They draw pictures in...
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Grouping Buttons
Looking for a good lesson plan on counting and sorting? This lesson plan is worth a look! In this classification lesson plan, learners sort buttons by color, shape, shiny verses not shiny, or number of holes.
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Which Number is Greater? Which Number is Less? How do you Know?
When comparing groups of objects, it's easy for children to identify which has more, but it's not so easy for them to explain their reasoning. This simple whole-group activity provides multiple opportunities for learners to compare...
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Estimate How Many Seeds Are In a Fruit or Vegetable
Help mathematicians estimate how many seeds are in a given vegetable or fruit. They are divided into pairs and estimate the amount of seeds in a whole fruit without seeing the inside. They then cut the fruit or vegetable in half and...
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Number Puzzles
These math puzzles are sure to get your first and second graders thinking. Nine word problems about odds and evens, as well as greater than and less than, keep learners guessing. If you're working on mental math in your class, use these...
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M&Ms Count and Crunch
Middle schoolers practice skills involving statistics and probability by making predictions on number of each color candy in one pound bag of M&Ms. They record both guesses and actual quantities, calculate percentages, and create bar...
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Number Patterns
Help your students to identify even and odd numbers. In this number sense lesson, they read the book Madeline and use counters to identify which number has a "partner." Learners write down odd and even numbers on a whiteboard.