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Everyday Math: Spin a Number Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use your counting skills to try to beat the computer in this simple interactive board game. This activity engages young learners in practicing basic counting with numbers from one to ten. Directions are presented orally.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Beating Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Do you know how long it takes your heart to beat 100 times? Test your estimation and number sense skills with this problem-solving challenge. A one-page activity taken from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families Collection. Hints and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Using a Pattern to Solve a Problem

For Teachers 2nd Standards
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).
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: It Is About Time

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders worked on telling time to the hour and half hour earlier in the year. Now they will apply their understanding of counting by 5s to telling time to the five minute interval.
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Better Lesson: Heading Back

For Teachers 1st Standards
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Now Stop and Turn It Around! That is the idea today as the students are introduced to the idea of counting back to 1.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pets, Pets and More Pets

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders love to talk about pets and in this lesson they can share how many pets they have.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: More Dimes and Dollars

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders need practice using coins and dollars and relating them to ones, tens and hundreds. Common Core standards include counting by 10s and 100s.
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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Monkeys Count

For Students 9th - 10th
Should you ask a monkey to help you with your math homework? Probably not, but scientists have discovered that monkeys can keep track of small numbers. See how they discovered this!
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Olympic Cards

For Students K - 1st
Play our sporty card game with 24 cards featuring information about Olympic athletes past and present. This game is aimed at primary school pupils at Key Stages 1 and 2.
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Quia

Quia: Addition Facts Matching Doubles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Practice your doubles facts with these interactive games at the Quia website. A fun way to sharpen your number sense and doubling skills.
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Teaching Treasures Publications

Teaching Treasures: Year One Timed Mental Math (Page 3)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Try to solve ten addition or subtraction problems in less than five minutes using this interactive worksheet. Immediate feedback is given. A suitable tool for use as a quick assessment.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Doubling to 1000 [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 4th
Students will follow the given instructions to double numbers until they reach 1000 or as close as possible.
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AAA Math

Aaa Math: Adding Dimes and Pennies

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Use this online game to add different combinations of dimes and pennies. The game keeps a percent score of your correct answers, as well as a running total of the number of your correct and incorrect answers.
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Count Money: Math Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Create and customize worksheets to practice counting and identifying coins. Coins are realistic and answers can be checked instantly. Worksheets are printable.
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Teaching Treasures Publications

Teaching Treasures Picture Math Grades K 1 (Page 5)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Add and subtract pictures and numbers in this easy to use interactive worksheet. A great tool for a quick practice. Problems are presented in a horizontal format.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Number Sense

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning math through nursery rhymes.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Magic Squares

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In a Magic Square all the rows, columns and diagonals add to the same number. This number is called the Magic Constant. Learn math fundamentals visually and have fun at the same time.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Game Wild Jack

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This math game is great for practice using all the operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. All you need is a deck of regular playing cards. Just follow the directions and you are in business.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Twenty Divided Into Six

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic and addition fact skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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AAA Math

Aaa Math: Place Value Expanded Form

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
You'll find an explanation of place value in expanded form in this lesson. There is also an interesting game that helps to show place value.
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ICT Games

Ict Games: Whack a Mole

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students practice number identification and counting forwards and backwards by whacking the mole with the right number.
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Topmarks Online

Topmarks: Blast Off

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Play these games to check your understanding of two-digit numbers. The oral questions provide practice in listening skills, the Count On and Count Back games provide practice with the vocabulary of addition and subtraction.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Make 37

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Sharpen your logic and addition skills while working on this challenge. Solution.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
The Peg + Cat on-air series and online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce early math concepts. In each 11-minute on-air episode of this animated, math-based series for 3-8 year olds, Peg and Cat...