What Counts?

Give me a high five! Do your scholars know where this term comes from? Use it as an introduction to numbers 0-5, using number cards to play a counting game with learners. What number comes next? Have them hold up their fingers to...

Developing fluency with basic addition and subtraction is fundamental to the success of all young mathematicians. This four-day lesson series begins with learners using ten-frames and hundreds charts to recognize patterns when adding and...

Agricultural survey and the documentation of livestock or goods was the basis for the first written language. Youngsters discuss sorting and counting, and how these skills have been used for thousands of years. They accent their class...

How can you tell if a number of items is reasonable? Combine math and language arts with a fun lesson based on Jeff Shepard's The Right Number of Elephants. After reading the book, kids discuss amounts of other items and create minibooks...

Math can be a work of art! Reach your artistic pupils as they explore angle measures. A creative set of five problems of varying levels has young learners study interior and exterior angle measures of polygons. The introductory levels...

When math learners string beads on a pipe cleaner, they can represent their number of beads by separating them into 2 or 3 groups (10=1,9; 2,8; 3,7; 4,6; 5,5; 3,3 and 4; 2,5 and 3; etc.). They then draw some of the grouping...

Few topics engage young mathematicians as much as learning about money. Through a series of shared readings and hands-on activities, children explore the US currency system, learning how to count money and calculate change as they create...

Go on an undersea adventure with a music video featuring a children's song about counting numbers. A friendly octopus swims freely while he counts to 1,000 by hundreds. 

Children play with barnyard animal cards to practice composing and decomposing numbers. With their "secret number" of animal cards in a cup, they shake and spill them onto a barn story board, counting how many animals fall in the barn...

Students classify and compare plants using specific information, observations, and numbers. In this mathematical inquiry lesson, students use plant characteristics to describe, compare, and classify them. They attempt to develop a system...