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Place Value - Butterflies Floating Place to Place Lesson PlanPlace Value - Butterflies Floating Place to Place Lesson Plan
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Place Value - Butterflies Floating Place to Place

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Learn about butterflies and place value in a series of interdisciplinary lessons! With several worksheets that reference butterfly facts in word problems, kids can practice science and math in one activity. Additional worksheets are great additions to math lessons and reference binders.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

place value, butterflies, base 10, number systems

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Combine with your unit on insects or butterflies
  • Use all the lessons in a place value unit, or choose the materials that work best with your curriculum

Pros

  • Provides both creative and straightforward methods to understanding place value
  • Includes 26 pages of worksheets with answer keys
  • Both a formative and summative assessment is available

Cons

  • None

Common Core

3.NBT.A.1 3.NBT.A.2 3.NBT.A.3

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