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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Goodie Bags

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Pairs of students will compare 3 quantities and order them from least to greatest. Students will select a pre-filled baggie and sort and count the contents. They will then arrange each group in order from least to most. This activity can...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Md.2, 5 Sounds Really Good! (Sort Of)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A friend of yours, Phil, writes to you asking about a new scratch-off lottery game. It costs $10 to play this game. There are two outcomes for the game (win, lose) and the probability that a player wins a game is 60%. A win results in...
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Classifying Quadrilaterals

For Students 4th - 6th
This multimedia that includes a short video [1:19] and other interactive activities on Learn Alberta math resource looks at real-world examples of shape classification in the investigation and solving of crimes. The accompanying...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Domestic vs. Wild

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Sorting items help students develop language skills as they describe attributes and qualities to determine which category is the best fit for an item. The teacher will introduce the definitions of wild and domestic by reading the book...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Rocks, Rocks Everywhere

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will sort rocks based upon color, hardness, texture, layering, and particle size.,
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape Hunt Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Calling all Shape Detectives! In this weeklong adventure, the children will explore and search for basic shapes as they go on a shape hunt. They will describe, match, sort and compose a variety of two-dimensional shapes, and create a...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: All About Us Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
It's time to stand in the spotlight! During this Afterschool Adventure, children will learn about and practice a variety of math skills as they gather information about their favorite subject-themselves! Children will start out by...
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Shape Classification

For Students 6th - 8th
Investigate the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons using this interactive Learn Alberta math resource. Students are able to practice classifying shapes based on their different properties. Be sure to follow the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Grande O Pequeno? Lo Podemos Clasificar Todo!

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Encuentre lo que es similar y lo que es diferente mientras exploran objetos.
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Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to sort items into two and three categories and explain how each group is classified. Finally, students categorize...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's That Coin?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This Five E's AMSTI lesson prompts students to pay close attention to the details on each of the four U.S. coins as they learn the coin names. Students watch a video clip about the differences in the coins, sort real coins by attributes,...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Finding Equal Groups

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This activity will test how quickly students can count objects. The teacher will assemble a variety of groups of objects in a few different forms (examples included). Students will race against the clock to sort the groups of objects...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Guess the Marbles in the Bag

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will make their best guesses as to how many marbles are in a bag. After recording 4-5 guesses, the teacher writes the number representing the total on the board, and the students then help sort their guesses into less than,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fresh Pick Challenge: Logical Lunch

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
By using their deductive reasoning skills, children can help Henry and Avril pack a perfect picnic lunch. This activity will provide them with ways to use clues to solve a problem, group objects based on several attributes, and...
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Shape Sorter

For Students 6th - 8th
Use this applet to sort shapes according to their properties using Venn diagrams.
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Braingle

Braingle: Group Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
The brain teasers at this site test "your ability to recognize groups of common attributes" and "to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are." Sort brain teasers according to title, popularity, and difficulty, and...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Origins: Earth Is Born

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Collect micrometeorites from space -- remnants of the time when the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Create a sky dust collector, sort particularate matter according to attributes and identify micrometeorites by their...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tree Mapping in 2 D

For Teachers K Standards
Identifying 2D shapes in common objects and sorting according to shapes connects the real world to learning shape names and attributes.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Measuring With Mixie Bot

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Children can measure with a favorite character to understand the value of standardized units of measure, such as inches and feet. This activity will help them practice measuring and understand comparing the measurements of one item to...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Assessing Sequencing Numbers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson assesses rather young scholars can correctly order numbers. The teacher will ask the student(s) to put pre-made number cards in order from the smallest number to the biggest number or in the order they would say them if they...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Ordering Numbers

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Given a set of numbers, young scholars need to decide where to place another set of numbers so they are ordered from least to greatest. This is a good precursor to greater than/less than. A detailed example is included.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Where Do I Go?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars will get a chance to move around while practicing number sequences. Teachers will pre-make or buy cards numbered to 100. Give each student a card and have them move around and arrange themselves in sequential order....
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Kick Off Seed Explorations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed to have young learners become more familiar with fruit seeds by identifying fruit that contains seeds/no seeds, gathering seeds from fruit, explaining the importance of seeds, explaining that seeds...

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