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St. Patrick's Day Color Key Addition
Young leprechauns solve basic addition facts and use a color key to bring a set of St. Patrick's Day-themed sheets to life.
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Number Family Practice Page
Using their knowledge of the associative and commutative properties of addition, class members work with fact families to create two addition and two subtraction problems with three given numbers.
NOAA
Sustaining Our Ocean Resources
Lead young scientists on an investigation of fishery practices with the final installment of this four-part unit. Using a PowerPoint presentation and hands-on simulation, this instructional activity engages children in learning how fish...
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Fractions
Fractions are scary for a lot of young mathematicians. This cute presentation tries to take the "scary" out of fractions. The basics are covered: the numerator, the denominator, and the fact that a fraction is a representation of a part...
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Telling the Time
Introduce the concept of time and all its implications. Kids discover facts about minutes, seconds, days, weeks, months, and years. They label the parts of an analog and digital clock then practice telling the time to the quarter hour.
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Using Multiplication to Solve Problems
In this interactive multiplication activity, students solve ten various problems by using multiplication skills. There are ten multiple choice problems to complete.
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Create Your Own (Math) Problems
Math word problems are the focus of this presentation. Learners view slides that have a variety of word problems on them. In addition to solving those problems, they are invited to make up similar problems on their own. The last slide...
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3's Times Tables
I love the visual layout of this slide show. In a cartoon style, the 3s times tables are reviewed. In each image a boy thinks up a 3s multiplication problem and a girl thinks up the answer. The last slide shows the teacher writing all...
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Division with Remainders
Cover the topic of division with remainders as it relates to fractions. Images of cubes are used to show what a remainder is and how it relates to fractions and multiplication. Simple, short, and straightforward.
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Multiplication & Division with Arrays
Third graders work with fact families using the commutative property, arrange arrays with manipulatives, and multiply and divide symbolically with numbers.
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Times Tables: Game
Just like those handy flash cards, this game is intended to get kids answering their times tables from the 2s through the 12s with automaticity. They go as fast as they can in order to be the first to answer each of the 12 time's tables....
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The 9's times tables finger trick
Kids love short-cuts and this one is an oldie but a goodie. The 9's times tables finger trick is demonstrated using images of a child's hands, the multiplication problem represented, and how tens and ones are represented by each finger....
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Making 10
Brilliant! This presentation helps kids discover all the different way they can make 10. Each slide contains 10 balls, as the kids count, each ball blinks, and the number appears under them to show how many. A plus sign pops up and the...
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Editable Exit Tickets
Here is a resource with 28 different exit ticket formats that can be used across the curriculum. Opportunities for exit assessments are endless with various prompts such as, "2 facts I learned today are..." or "I need extra help with..."...
NOAA
A Watery World
With about 70% of the earth's surface covered in oceans, it's fair to say that we live in a very wet world. Young scientists gain a better appreciation of this fact as they use maps to identify the world's ocean basins in the first...
Bowland
Cats and Kittens
Can a cat have 2,000 descendants in 18 months? To determine if this claim is realistic, individuals must take different pieces of information into account when justifying their responses.
Bowland
Royal Liver Clock
Using clocks as dining tables? Scholars estimate the number of people that can sit around the face of the clock on the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. They use estimation to justify their responses.
Beyond Benign
Can You Hear Me Now? Cell Phone Accounts
How sustainable are cell phones? Throughout the unit, learners explore the issues around cell phones concerning sustainability. Class members take a graphical look at the number of cell phones across the world using a box-and-whisker...
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All About Circles Post Test
In this geometry worksheet, students answer ten multiple choice facts about circles. The questions include finding the diameter, area, and radius of a circle.
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Using Addition and Subtraction to Solve Problems II
In this addition and subtraction problem solving worksheet, 3rd graders use addition and subtraction skills to answer ten multiple choice word problems.
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Lesson 1: Fast Food Nutrients
Students compute the nutrient values of fast foods. In this fast food nutrient, students observe a PowerPoint about nutrition. They research nutritional topics, answer questions about nutrition, and determine the nutrient values of...
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Discovering Dewey's Decimal System
Students discover the Dewey Decimal System. In this fractions lesson plan, students utilize education software to discover how the Dewey Decimal System works. Students create a PowerPoint presentation in groups or a informational...
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Inverse
Your class can learn all about inverse operations. They will review what inverse operations are, see examples, learn how to use inverse operation to check an answer, write addition and subtraction equations in the inverse, and use the...
Federal Reserve Bank
So How Much Are You Really Paying for that Loan?
Loans are rarely provided without a cost. Pupils evaluate the high cost of using a payday loan or payday advance through discussion and worksheets, and finally work in groups to develop short public service announcements that outline the...