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Mathematics: One Hundred Plastic Ants

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders pick up plastic ants scattered on the floor. They take them back to their desks, count them, and add their totals to those of other students.
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Piece It Together

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders develop spatial sense, such as above and below. For this spatial sense lesson, 2nd graders go on a scavenger hunt and to piece together the clues. Each clue has a question using spatial vocabulary. 
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Dot-to-Dot Puppy

For Students K - 1st Standards
Connect the dots to complete a huge puppy! What preschooler or kindergartener wouldn't find such a task rewarding? The dots are numbered from 1 to 30, so this will definitely meed Common Core counting and cardinality standards for...
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Addition

For Students 2nd
In this addition worksheet, 2nd graders practice adding together 10 addition problems involving two 2-digit whole numbers. Students write their answers in the shapes provided.
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A Fictional History of Place Value

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Your class can explore standard and expanded notation, as well as computation with regrouping. They listen to a make-believe story about cavemen and the origin of numerals and place value. Then apply what they learned about renaming and...
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Exploring Gullah Culture...Through Language and Numbers

For Teachers 1st
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...
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The Greedy Dog

For Teachers K
Teach young mathematicians the concepts of greater than, less than, and equal to with kinesthetic, visual, verbal, and numeric approaches. In a playful session that addresses multiple intelligences, your class will: dramatize a greedy...
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Time for Prime

For Teachers 4th
Explore prime numbers. Learners use an interactive 100's chart to identify prime numbers, discuss a glossary of terms, use cards to list multiples of 2,3,4,5, and play a bingo game.
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Goldfish Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers K
Engage in a hands-on addition and subtraction activity that is a wonderful tie-in with ocean studies. As the teacher, you will make up equations using construction paper and goldfish crackers.
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Pattern Block Fractions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a instructional activity that is about the finding of different fractional sizes with the help of pattern blocks. They define the vocabulary terms of numerator and denominator. The instructional activity...
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Numbers Up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use Legos to build representations of a variety of numbers. They then sort and order their representations and pair them with the written number.
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Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create an ABAB pattern with their name. In this early elementary math lesson, 2nd graders first model their names in an ABAB pattern with unifix cubes. They then recreate the pattern using letter stamps on KidPix.
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Tonnage - Measurement

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore the size of one ton. They research the capacity of sialing ships and estimate the volume of rectangular prisms. Students perform activities to discover the capacity of a classroom in tons.
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Unit 1, Worksheet 2, Calculator Worksheet

For Students 6th - 9th
In this calculator instructional activity, students explore place value, standard notation, and exponential notation. They add, subtract, multiply and divide positive and negative integers with and without a calculator. This three-page...
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Millions, Billions, Trillions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use real-world data to compare the relative sizes of millions and billions, and exponential growth. They use the salaries of famous people such as, Michael Jordan and Bill Gates to understand this math concept.
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Not So Snappy 14

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this word problem worksheet, young scholars endeavor to logically discover the answers to some common-sense equations. Three out of four questions pertain to real-world situations with the fourth asking for number products.
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Can Collection

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this addition activity, students solve 6 addition problems in which they add numbers that are divisible by ten. The directions state the they can use "tens models" if needed.
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Too Many Tens

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice grouping in different ways by putting numbers up to 1,000 in the correct place value. In this place value lesson plan, students estimate items in a jar and then count them out by grouping them by 10s.
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Mathematics Word Problems

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math learning exercise, students solve 16 word problems. For example, "Andy has .9 of a dollar. How many dimes is that? How much money is that?"
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Word Problem Solving Strategies

For Students 6th
In this word problem solving strategies worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 11 different problems and questions related to identifying word problems. First, they explain what the problem is telling them to do and what is important....
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Charting Animal Life Spans

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research animal life spans and complete related math activities. In this life span lesson, 2nd graders read How Many Candles and discuss life spans. Students arrange animal cards based on their life spans. Students find...
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Using Extrapolations

For Students 6th
In this using extrapolations instructional activity, 6th graders use data analysis to answer nine questions about data prediction and extrapolation.
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Following Specs.

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils utilyze a set number of DUPLO blocks to build a free-form construction project.
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Fractions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore fractions. They use Skittles and M&M's to practice adding and subtracting fractions. Students review the numerator and the denominator of fractions. They count the number of each color of Skittles and M&M's...