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Understanding 10: Backwards and Forwards
Help your young mathematicians completely master 10 by practicing one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, and recording numbers displayed. They make 10 with groups of two-different colored cubes and color in 10-frames to show how...
Illustrative Mathematics
Zeroes and factorization of a non polynomial function
Functions behaving badly: the squaring function and the absolute value function are both zero at x=0. Yet when you divide each by x, different things happen. Here, your class will explore each scenario as a means to adding depth to their...
Illustrative Mathematics
Baseball Cards
Here is a resource that demonstrates growth and the initial state of an equation. In this case, your class will be looking at baseball collections. How many baseball cards did the collector start out with, and how many were added or...
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What Do I Really Have to Gain?
Second graders further develop simple addition facts and their ability to record the facts.
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Number Stories 1: Student-generated Checklist
Students explore creating a self-assessment tool in a model classroom. Through the use of a video, students are observed engaging in peer assessment activities to generate a checklist. Students discuss the use of strategies a teacher can...
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Miles Of Smiles
Students investigate basic mathematical properties to solve multiplication and division problems. They solve word problems that are part of the instructional activity. Students are required to give written or oral justification for how...
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Mathematics Review 3
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems using the four basic operations as part of a review exercise or assessment. The answers are found on page two.
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Compatible numbers to 20
Learners practice theories dealing with equals sign used as a balance, inequality symbols and practice utilizing a box or some other geometric shape to represent an unknown number. They assess numeracy problems embedded in language-rick...
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Number Jump
Students practice addition and subtraction skills while practicing jumping rope. They must jump rope using a variety of basic rope jumping skills and add and subtract in their heads.
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Dolphins And Penguins
Students participate in an activity that reinforces vertical addition sentences as well as provides facts about penguins. They assess a kinesthetic/visual activity to reinforce the difference between vertical and horizontal addition...
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Brainiac Tag
Students participate in a special game of tag while reinforcing the math skills they have learned.
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Go Yankees!
Students use the internet to research the New York Yankees baseball team. After gathering their information, they discuss the challenges faced by the team and how they were overcome. They end the lesson by examining the math and...
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Standards and Measures
Students conduct a "one-question interview" about standardized tests. They assess two sections of a standardized test that they took or will take this year and write an article for their school newspaper that consolidates their test...
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Deal or No Deal
Young scholars play a game in order to memorize any set of facts. In this memorization lesson, students play an adaptation of the game Deal or No Deal to help them review and memorize factual information. Young scholars also work on math...
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Anansi Goes To Lunch
Students read and explore a folktale from West Africa. For this folktale lesson, students read the book Anansi Goes to Lunch and discuss facts about spiders. Students sing the song "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and complete several included...
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Division Patterns
Students investigate the concept of division and how numbers fit into specific patterns while practicing the skills finding equivalent fractions. They practice solving different division sentences while answering questions asked during...
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Special Education Plan
Special needs young scholars practice completing everyday tasks such as organizing a day plan, reading a clock and completing simple math problems. They define the proper learning techniques for their disorder and utilize props in...
Teach Engineering
The Amazing Red Planet
Introduce your class to Mars with a resource that provides information about its size, location, length of day, length of year, number of moons, and average temperature. Also includes is information about the lans for past...
Bantam Books
The Tempest: Chalk Talk
Discussion doesn't always need to be spoken. Before you begin The Tempest by William Shakespeare, have kids connect their ideas and experiences to central questions of the play with a silent discussion activity. Once they have...
Geophysical Institute
Latitude and Longitude with Google Earth
Travel the world from the comfort of your classroom with a lesson that features Google Earth. High schoolers follow a series of steps to locate places all over the earth with sets of coordinates. Additionally, they measure the distance...
Teach Engineering
Sliders (for High School)
Slip sliding away. Groups investigates the two types of friction by running an experiment that allows them to calculate the coefficient of static friction and the coefficient of kinetic friction. The experiment uses a box, a...
K5 Learning
The Astronomy Project
A passage about an astronomy lesson may leave readers starstruck. Fifth graders read about a class's exploration into the makeup of the galaxy and its constellations before answering six questions about the terms and vocabulary...
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Exploring Multiplication and Division at a Party
Students solve multiplication and division problems using Unifix cubes. They explore multiplication and division through equal grouping of objects and sharing. Students discuss the task they completed and share how they completed the...