If your mom is three times older than you are, how old is she on your 11th birthday? Young mathematicians answer this and four other multiplication word problems using real-life scenarios. They consider bags of cookies, pounds of...

Students access web sites have classroom activity ideas for the book "Math Curse." They read what other students have written about their own math curses and try to solve word problems.

First graders examine the culture of the ancient Gullah people. As a class, they practice saying and writing the days of the week and numbers in Gullah. They are read a Gullah folktale and put the events of the story into the correct...

Define the terms domain, range, function, vertical limit test, and linear function notation with your class. They can then, graph several equations applying the vertical line test to determine which are and which are not functions, write...

Class members listen to the William Wise book Ten Sly Piranhas and act out the story with one child playing the piranha. They use goldfish crackers (eating them to show subtraction) to demonstrate and understand equations they see...

Explore the life and painting style of African-American artist Horace Pippin by looking carefully at its parts, then create a "secret number" painting for a classroom counting book.

Fifth graders examine ways to save and spend money. They look at ways that people earn, save, and spend money using chapters from Tom Birdseye's Tarantula Shoes. They add and subtract decimals to fill in a worksheet entitled, "Is It a...

Combine counting and vocabulary using Francine Bassede's book George's Store at the Shore, which has learners exploring new words and numbers 1-10. Suggested words for this text are: arrange, assortment, customers,...

Using The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, pupils practice sequencing events in a story. After reading the story, they head to the computer lab to use Kidspiration to sequence events. Then they create their own books to demonstrate...

How likely is a new baby to be a boy? Or for snow to fall in August? Mark the likelihood of various events on probability lines. For extra practice, have your fourth and fifth graders make up different scenarios in their lives to...

First graders are exposed to addition of three whole numbers in a math activity centered around Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. As the teacher reads, young mathematicians use counters and ten-frames to symbolize the number of...

Turn Pride and Prejudice into a math activity with a magic squares activity. Kids read nine character traits and pair them to a list of the book's characters in order to complete the activity and find the magic number.

Help your students identify the attributes of two-dimensional shapes. They read the book Round is a Mooncake, and use pattern blocks to sort shapes. Students sort shapes according to their attributes.

Students read books by the author Keiko Kasza and complete critical thinking skills, and connections to different subjects. In this language lesson plan, students connect the books to language arts, social studies, science, math, health,...

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is filled with secrets. Help readers find the clues, solve the riddles and puzzles, and unwrap the mysteries with a six-page guide that includes before, during, and after reading discussion questions and...

Students solve word problems using a graphic organizer. In this problem solving lesson, students are introduced to the included graphic organizer and are taught how to use it for solving word problems. Students write the required...

In this reading worksheet, students participate in a 2 character reader's theater play based on the book If You Take a Mouse to School.

Demonstrate how to read analog and digital clocks to the hour in this time measurement lesson. Read the book What Time is it Mr. Crocodile? and use Mr. Crocodile's schedule to practice telling time. They work in cooperative groups to...

Students demonstrate how to count money through a simulated shopping experience. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book Just Shopping With Mom and count play money to illustrate how much the items in the book cost.

First graders graph their favorite The Night Before Christmas books. In this graphing lesson students listen to several versions of the the same story, The Night Before Christmas. The students each choose their favorite version and the...

In this math worksheet, students learn to count from 1 to 10 and read color words by making a 5 page book. Students count the number of jelly beans and color them the appropriate color which is indicated. Then students write the sentence...

Learners listen to From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil F. Frankweiler and discuss wants and needs.  In this iincome and expenses lesson, students relate the adventures of the children in the book to a real life financial...

A list of 20 two to three-digit numbers asks math whizzes to determine specified percentages for each. The publisher has linked the assignment to CCSS.Math.Content.6RP.3, and it is targeted at the discreet skill of finding a percent of a...