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Take Off the Mask
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, 3rd graders look at the clues and determine which number is behind each mask. Students write the number they choose in the answer space and then complete 11 equations.
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Hidden Sums
In this finding the sums 7 and 8 instructional activity, 1st graders look over two boxes of numbers, find the sums of 7 and 8 in each one and circle pairs of numbers that make each sum.
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More and Less
In this more than/less than worksheet, students start with the number on each cactus and double it. Then students continue down the column adding ten more or taking away ten as directed.
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Go With the Flow
In this flowchart activity, 3rd graders follow the arrows and solve 3 mathematical equations by following the operation instructions on each one.
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Animal Stickers
In this problem solving with money worksheet, students examine 6 animal stickers with marked prices. Students write a number sentence to solve each of 4 story problems.
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Agriculture Counts
Students practice counting. In this early numbers lesson, students learn about the beginnings of agriculture and how it ties into math. Students practice counting objects related to agriculture.
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Same Sums
In this same sums worksheet, 1st graders, working with a partner, cut out the 12 cards at the bottom of the worksheet, shuffle the cards, turn the cards over, take turns choosing 2 cards and keep each one if the sums match.
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Following Decimals
In this decimals worksheet, 3rd graders find the end number for 2 decimal math problems by utilizing the process of addition and subtraction. Students supply the 2 missing numbers in the 3rd decimal math problem.
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Touch Math
Using the touch math system, learners engage in activities to practice adding numbers. While the instructional activity is laid out in an explicit manner, there isn't a guide explaining the touch math system.
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Integers
Using a simple technique, learners practice identifying integers on a number line. As numbers, both positive and negative, are pointed to, they name them. This could be part of anticipatory set before a lesson on integers.
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Problem Solving: Estimate or Exact?
In this number sense worksheet, 5th graders solve 6 word problems and explain why the answer makes sense. They use either estimated numbers or exact numbers as they solve the problems.
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Writing in Scientific Notation
Students discover number sense by completing a math worksheet. In this scientific notation lesson plan, students identify the purpose for writing in scientific notation and practice writing large numbers in scientific notation. Students...
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Visual Discrimination
For this number sense worksheet, students examine 2 pictures and identify how old they think the people in the pictures are. Students then draw pictures of how they think they will look at 100.
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Find the Fewest
In this number sense worksheet, 3rd graders circle the fewest coins possible to show each amount given to answer four questions.
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Shopping Trip
In this number sense worksheet, 5th graders determine if they have enough money to purchases both toys. Students answer the four questions by circling yes or no.
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Estimate and Measure
In this number sense activity, learners examine the 4 pictured items and estimate how long each of them is in centimeters. Students use rulers to check their work.
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Estimating Practice
In this number sense worksheet, students examine the picture and estimate the number of ants in the picture.
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The Rabbit Problem
Students notice a number pattern in the book The Rabbit Problem by Emily Gravett. In this number pattern lesson plan, students represent and describe numbers appropriate to their grade level.
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The Stolen Smell
Some smells are better than others! Explore your sense of smell with a series of activities based on the Peruvian folktale, The Stolen Smell. With exercises about phonics, counting, cooking, art, and drama, the lesson is a...
Rainforest Alliance
Get in Touch with Nature
Take a trip to the Colombian rainforest through the sense of touch. Here, class members discover what's inside a mystery box: wood, cinnamon, Brazil nuts, a banana, and orange. Then, the class takes a trip outside for a tree rubbing...
University of Minnesota
Fraction Operations and Initial Decimal Ideas
Add another strategy to the toolboxes of young mathematicians with this elementary math lesson on using number lines to add and subtract fractions.
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Memory Haiku: The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Smell
Scholars learn how smells evoke early childhood memories and apply that knowledge to a character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. After finding a passage from the novel that references smells, they craft a haiku and a...
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Stop and Smell the Flowers
It's a bird! It's a bee! Actually, it's your learners flying from flower to flower smelling their scents! Using paper flowers and essential oils, pupils flutter between flowers to use their sense of smell to experience how animals use...
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Scent-Inspired Composition
Our sense of smell has a wonderful way of bringing back memories. Unlock those memories with an olfactory-inspired writing prompt that challenges writers to tell a story about a specific smell and the memories it conjures.