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Using Numbers in Everyday Situations
Students exercise the basic use of numbers in their everyday lives. In this numerical exercise, students discover the many ways numbers are used in everyday life. The students draw pictures showing examples of a time they have used...
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Understanding Fractions
Young scholars explore the parts of an orange to develop an understanding of the addition and subtraction of fractions. The concept of representing parts of a whole by dividing an object into smaller pieces is experienced in this...
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Sets and Venn Diagrams
In this online sets and Venn Diagrams activity, students complete five Venn Diagrams involving whole numbers and twenty five questions. Students check their answers as they go.
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Representing Numbers to 50
In this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders identify two-digit numbers that show tens and ones. Then they write how many tens and ones there are and place the number in the boxes given.
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Numbers Activity
Students practice identifying quantities of items and materials using numbers. In this counting lesson, students read The Gummi Bear Counting Book by Lindley Boegehold, and utilize a bag of gummy bears as a counting tool. Students...
Inside Mathematics
Rugs
The class braids irrational numbers, Pythagoras, and perimeter together. The mini-assessment requires scholars to use irrational numbers and the Pythagorean Theorem to find perimeters of rugs. The rugs are rectangular, triangular,...
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20 Tickets
A great hands-on activity involving adding and subtracting, beginner mathematicians determine how many games can be played with 20 tickets. Instead of tickets, youngsters use 20 counters or linking cubes to represent the amount of...
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Further Investigating Greater Than, Less Than, and Equal to
Students investigate number relationships such as greater than, less than, and equal to. In this number relationship lesson plan, students use number mats and a fish with a large, open mouth to practice showing number relationships.
Arizona Department of Education
Introduction to Integers
Welcome to the backward world of negative numbers. This introductory lesson teaches young mathematicians that negative numbers are simply the opposite of positive numbers as they use number lines to plot and compare single-digit integers.
Mathematics Assessment Project
Representing 3-D Objects in 2-D
How does the shape of the surface of water in a container change as water leaks out? After tackling this question, learners take part in a similar activity with more complex figures.
California Education Partners
John's Trip Disneyland
It all adds up to one. Pupils solve several items that involve finding sums of fractions in relationship to a whole. The assessment task uses fractions with unlike denominators to determine the amount of a tank of gas and the amount of...
University of Colorado
Spacecraft Speed
Space shuttles traveled around Earth at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour, way faster than trains, planes, or automobiles travel! In the 13th installment of 22, groups graph different speeds to show how quickly spacecraft move through...
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Building Sets of 13 and 14
Compose and decompose sets of 13 and 14 and compare sets of each with your little learners. They use objects to construct sets of 13 and 14, record their answers, and compare sets in several different ways.
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You Can't Go Wrong with a Right Triangle 2
Upper graders use the properties of right angle trignonmetry to measure objects such as the school flagpole. They solve real world problems using these properties.
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Fraction Halves
When you cut an object into two equal parts, you're creating halves or fractions. Introduce the numerator, denominator, and what they represent to your class. They review what a fraction is and then label the images that are halves.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Order, Order
Learners use pictures to identify items as ordinal numbers. In this ordinal numbers lesson plan, students use the words "before" and "after" to identify the pictures as well.
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The Missing Monkey Mystery
Second graders explore number values by completing number sentences. In this math functions lesson, 2nd graders identify whole numbers by using a visual aide and practice filling in the blank in number sentences. Students utilize their...
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Let's Count! (Teachers' Page)
Learners practice counting using a website "Let's Count". They point to each object and count and pull down a tab to check their answers.
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Why Stay with Whole Numbers?
Domain can be a tricky topic, especially when you relate it to context, but here is a instructional activity that provides concrete examples of discrete situations and those that are continuous. It also addresses where the input values...
K12 Reader
What Is a Simile?
As fun as a barrel of monkeys, this figurative language worksheet will engage your students in learning to write similes. Asking them to first think of adjectives describing the six nouns listed on the page, this exercise has young...
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Venn Diagram
Students classify items and numbers by using a Venn diagram. For this Venn diagram lesson plan, students use the computer to do this and classify pictures and numbers.
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Introduction to Fractions Using Cuisenaire Rods
Fifth graders use Cuisenaire rods in order to discover how to represent fractions with real objects. For this lesson on fractions, 5th graders first examine and learn the colors, lengths, and numerical values of each rod; then, students...
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Addition Exercises
In this addition worksheet, students add the objects that are in number sentences representing numbers. Students complete 9 problems.
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Improper Fractions
Students work with fractions. In this improper fractions lesson, students define improper fractions and mixed numbers. Students learn how to change improper fractions to mixed numbers or whole numbers.