Getting Better at Guessing

Find out just how smart your young mathematicians are with this cross-curricular math and language arts lesson. After first reading Shel Silverstein's poem "Smart", students draw pictures of coins to model the different exchanges...

Bring together the subjects of math and English language arts with this collection of fun resources based on the children's book Over in the Grasslands. Intended to build the number sense of young mathematicians, these grasslands-themed...

Time for candy math! Yes, get out those Skittles, M&M's, and jelly beans because you are going to make math sweet. There are six different candy math ideas here for you to try. You're kids will use treats to add, subtract, sort, make...

Students, working in groups, examine a jar of assorted coins. They practice estimation skills and determine how to make both "guesstimations" and more precise estimations. They discuss uses for each.

Students analyze number sense by participating in a pattern identification activity. In this number sequence lesson plan, students examine several groups of numbers and identify the sequence in the group before adding on to it. Students...

Students practice their estimation skills. Various amounts of dots are placed at the top of various numbers of papers. Students exchange papers and practice estimating how many dots are at the top. Students also practice estimating how...

Second graders create a graph about TV watching. In this bar graph lesson, 2nd graders make a hypothesis about how much TV 2nd graders watch per week. They record their TV watching for a week and bring it to school to create a class graph.