Learners design and build a snowplow using LEGO materials. They compete in an Engineer's Challenge to clear a path through Styrofoam peanuts.

Students create an artistic crest that represents either themselves, their group of friends, or their their family.

For this lesson on place value, 1st graders explore tens and ones, learn key vocabulary, and apply their learning to correct a mistake.

Take a look at the mathematics involved in the story "One Grain of Rice". Included is a lesson plan, geared toward 2nd-grade math students, about place value. A link to a quiz on the story is included.

Students will compare and order integers on the number line. This lesson includes a detailed plan with lots of examples, a screencast of the lesson, and slides containing notes and problems.

Students get a hands-on, minds-on experience with counting, while also constructing an understanding of tens and ones. This lesson includes a detailed plan, a link to a song about teen numbers, a video showing students engaging in...

It is important to assess understandings of concepts that students have worked on before moving ahead with new concepts or higher level thinking.

In this lesson on comparing decimals, 5th graders will learn how to compare decimals to the thousandths place using place value.