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Counting Books
Students create counting books. In this counting book lesson plan, students make their own book which counts on each page and has a corresponding picture. These books can count by 1's, 2's, 5's, or even fractions.
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Math by M&M's
First graders review math skills with M&M's. In this math lesson, 1st graders practice addition and subtraction skills with M&M candies.
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Study Buddies Skip-Counting Patterns
Two Study Buddies worksheets can be found through this link. In the first, math minors count flowers by 1s, and then again by 2s. They answer a few related questions. In the second, they are instructed to work with a partner and clap out...
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"The Grapes of Math" by Gregg Tang
Students practice mental addition and use the associative and commutative properties of addition to solve problems.
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Counting
In this math worksheet, students practice counting up to 6 by counting 8 sets of items. They count the items and write the numbers on the blank lines.
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Different Ways to Count
Fourth graders investigate various number systems and ways of counting. In this various number systems and ways of counting lesson, 4th graders discuss number systems from around the world. Students practice counting using...
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Finding Patterns with the Hundreds Chart
Students review their numbers up to one hundred. Using a chart, they compare and predict patterns that might be in the numbers. They practice skip counting and grouping numbers. Using a spreadsheet, they graph different sets of numbers...
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Counting the Kittens
In this counting activity, students analyze a group of kitten pictures. There are two kinds of kittens. Students count how many of each kind there are and write the totals.
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Teaching Arithmetic and Math Concepts to Headstarters
Students discover early number concepts for numbers 1 through 5. In this number concepts lesson, students work in stations doing hands-on activities such as sorting colored blocks, stringing beads, and counting sticks. Students also...
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Counting Shapes: More and Fewer
In this fewer worksheet, students count the shapes in the box and have to draw a group of the same shape that is a fewer number. Students solve 2 problems.
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The Band-Aid Counting Poem
Second graders listen to the teacher read a poem by Shel Silverstein and count the band-aids in the story.
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Recipes and Ratios
Students use ratio and proportions to adjust recipe size. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students investigate Native American food and adjust the recipe size for said foods to the number of servings needed to feed the...
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Positive and Negative Dominoes
Students play dominoes with regular dominoes rules with some modification. Every student keep score. Every count be used--not just the 5's as in dominoes. They count outside points using white dots as positive and red dots as negatives.
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Problem Solving with Multiplication and Division II: Post Test
In this multiplication and division worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions where they problem solve multiplication and division problems in word problems. Students answer 10 questions total.
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Probability: Ratios and Percents
Students investigate ratios and percents. For this algebra lesson, students explore the probability of an event occurring. They convert between ratios and percents as they solve the odds.
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Area and Measurements
Students measure the area using feet and yard. In this algebra lesson, students draw and manipulate shapes to calculate the area. They measure the relationship of area between the two units.
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Jump on Tens
Give the actors in your class a chance to shine as they act out skip-counting. In their roles, they take turns shouting out different number patterns and jumping when reaching the given goals set for each number family. A fun and...
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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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Mystery Jars: Make Your Own
There are many ways to implement this estimation and counting activity. Young mathematicians fill jars with objects to create "mystery jars." Add difficulty by using smaller objects. After counting, learners secretly record their exact...
Illustrative Mathematics
How Many _______ Are In. . . ?
Help your learners gain meaningful understanding of dividing fractions using fraction models. The activity includes nine problems which are sequenced to show how the fraction division algorithm evolves. Have students use graph paper or...
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Guest Teacher Plans: Kindergarten
Emergencies happen. Be prepared the next time you have to call in a substitute with a lesson plan designed to meet the needs of a kindergarten class. Throughout the day, class members work with number and alphabet cards, identify numbers...
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In Search of Life
Explore the habitats around you with an activity that takes kids out of the classroom to learn about the local variety of habitats and the living things that call them home. In small groups, scholars investigate their surroundings,...
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How Many Frogs?
Students explore the concept of linear regression. In this linear regression lesson, students find the line of best fit for a set of data pertaining to a frog population. Students use their line of best fit to predict the frog population...
Inside Mathematics
Swimming Pool
Swimming is more fun with quantities. The short assessment task encompasses finding the volume of a trapezoidal prism using an understanding of quantities. Individuals make a connection to the rate of which the pool is filled with a...