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More or Less...
As they look at 10 groups of shapes, learners compare the A and B columns in this "more or less" activity. Each set includes anywhere from zero to nine shapes, and scholars complete a simple comparative sentence by circling either less...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Numbers Are Made of Parts
Children play with barnyard animal cards to practice composing and decomposing numbers. With their "secret number" of animal cards in a cup, they shake and spill them onto a barn story board, counting how many animals fall in the barn...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Thinking About Numbers from 1 to 20
Help your kindergarteners discover new number-sense concepts and to compose and decompose numbers. Though the resource contains no procedural details, the assessment tool (which you can find in the "printer friendly version") has...
Curated OER
The Math Of African Music
Pupils practice rhythms and fractions on African drums in this Music activity mixing Math skills and music notation. The activity also includes ideas for assessment and state and national benchmarks met.
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Mayor Que, Menor Que
While only a simple presentation about the concept of less than and greater than, it could be used in a classroom with Spanish speakers to present this topic. Within the series of slides, the idea of less than and greater than is...
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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.
Curated OER
Prairie Math
Students work together to build models of prairie plants. Using the model, they estimate the height and then measure them using metric and standard units. They write a fraction to represent their part of the whole set and compare and...
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Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream
Use the book Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream to inspire your learners to solve and create multiplication word problems. After listening to the story, they solve two "which is more" problems. They explain their thinking with images,...
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Telling Time as an Everyday Use of Numbers
How can we estimate time? Have your young mathematicians make a clock. Then they compare and contrast types of clocks. They practice writing times in two different ways and make a book about telling time.
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Compare Numbers
In this number sense instructional activity, students complete 20 problems where they compare one and two digit numbers by inserting the comparison symbols.
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Compare Numbers
For this number comparisons worksheet, students use the table for the 'Enrollment in a Music School' to compare numbers and answer the six word problems.
Math Mammoth
Add & Subtract Whole Hundreds 1
In this mathematics worksheet, 3rd graders compare the problem 2700 plus 200 to the problem 27 plus 2 and explain their reasoning. Then they notice the patterns for each of the problems and continue them.
Noyce Foundation
Apple Farm Field Trip
Monitor the growth of young mathematicians with a comprehensive addition and subtraction assessment. Using the context of a class field trip to an apple orchard, this series of four story problems allows children to demonstrate their...
EngageNY
Writing Equations Using Symbols
Build upon prior equation writing experience to create more complicated equations. Lesson one in a 33-part unit builds upon the class members' sixth and seventh grade experience of writing linear equations. Several examples...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Order Fractions & Decimals
Going from fraction to decimal and decimal to fraction shouldn't be a chore, but an easy step for young mathematicians to do within problems. This interactive lesson shows how long division can change any fraction to a decimal. Started...
Math Solutions
Race to 20
And they're off! Working in pairs, young mathematicians roll dice to see who can fill in their double ten-frames first. When students finally fill in their arrays, they create addition number sentences that represent their rolls, helping...
US Department of Commerce
The Place of My State
State the population of the state. Pupils research census data on the total population, the number of children their age, and the number of children of the same age and gender in their states. They write these numbers in standard,...
Curated OER
Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal To
This resource offers a quick lesson plan in using the symbols for greater than, less than, and equal to to compare single-digit numbers. However, the practice worksheet included has learners comparing numbers to the 100,000s, as well as...
Curated OER
Something Fishy
Fourth graders complete a variety of activities which are related to fish, and the history of the fishing industry in Canada. This series of lessons incorporates artwork, math, whole-class games, and the construction of an in-class...
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Comparing and Ordering Numbers
In this comparing and ordering numbers worksheet, learners, working with a partner, problem solve and calculate the answers to five word problems or equations involving numbers.
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Negative Numbers on the Number Line Using the TI-83
In this negative numbers worksheet, students use the TI-83 calculator to compare the value of negative numbers. Students explain in short answer format how they used the calculator to determine their answers.
Worksheets Plus
Place Value Worksheets - Comparing Numbers
Six problems consisting of sets of tens and ones cubes are arranged for aspiring mathematicians to analyze. For each problem, pupils write down the total numbers of cubes and then use < or > to identify which set is the least and...
Curated OER
Comparing and Ordering Numbers
For this numbers worksheet, 4th graders compare 8 sets of numbers by placing 1 of the operations signs, <, >, and/or =, in between each one. Students put a list of numbers in order from the greatest to the least and then answer 1...
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Compare Numbers to 100,000 (T)
In this number comparisons worksheet, students study the number pairs that range to 100,000. Students write a greater than, less than, or equal to sign for the 60 problems.