Lay the foundation for multiplication by introducing your second graders to the concepts of skip counting and repeated addition. This lesson can be used alongside Up, Up, and Array, or separately to reinforce these important skills.

Your students will turn boring number sentences into fun, Christmas-themed word problems! They will get practice with math and writing as they use their creative juices to write and solve single digit addition word problems.

Your students will solve and create shape riddles while practicing their knowledge of shape attributes.

Bigger, taller, shorter, or longer? In this spring lesson plan, students will compare two objects and create their own spring-themed comparison worksheet. They will draw pairs of pictures and come up with their own comparison questions.

Look out! Measurement is all around us! In this lesson, students will learn about measuring tools and how to use them. Students will work cooperatively on a fun measurement hunt, exploring and applying concepts of measurement using inches.

Encourage students to explain their processes when converting from a mixed number to an improper fraction, and back again. Use this lesson on its own or as support to the lesson Single Strategy for Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers.

In this lesson, students will have fun creating addition sentences by drawing and counting ladybug dots.

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

This end-of-the-school-year lesson will get the students focused on all the things they learned in math class! It reviews different skills with fractions and decimals in word problems using the "Read, Draw, and Write" strategy.

Allow your students to explore the pros and cons of different strategies used to find the area of rectangles. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the Multiplication and Area in the Community Garden lesson.

It's about time to learn about time! Your students will interact with a class made clock and roll the dice to 'make up' a time. But they better know their hour and minute hands apart to find success in this lesson!

Students will learn out how to partition a rectangle using by partitioning shapes with rows and columns.

Use this introductory lesson on comparison to provide students with practice identifying groups of more and less.

This lesson combines students' knowledge of US geography and their creative writing skills in one fun activity!

Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut to enter space. Use the Get to Know Mae Jemison lesson plan to learn more about this famous scientist. Children will then read and write about her, and create their own paper rocket.

With this activity, students will identify shapes, build 3-D shapes, and practice describing shapes with a partner.

This Halloween-themed hundreds chart game has plenty of tricks and treats! Students will roll two dice to move up and down the chart to be the first to 100. Players will also recognize important number patterns as they move their marker.

Students will be introduced to the tenths place value while converting fractions during this fun and interactive lesson.

Use this lesson to review three-digit addition strategies including base-ten drawings, number lines, and the standard algorithm.

Students will use their hands to mold clay into shapes, then divide those shapes into equal and unequal quarters.

Extend your students' understanding of data by asking them to consider real-world problems about data collection and graphs.

What's more romantic than a bar graph on Valentine's Day? In this Valentine's Day lesson plan, students will use information from a data set to create their own tally charts and bar graphs and then analyze these graphs to answer questions.

Using this interactive lesson plan, your students will learn to read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths with a partner.

Want to strengthen your student’s multiplication and division skills? This lesson uses fact families to help students practice those skills.

In this lesson, your students will get hands-on practice comparing quantities! Students will compare using buttons, blocks, and their classmates.

Motivate your students by engaging them in a competition! In this lesson, your students will review and practice multiplication strategies.

In this lesson, students will gain and use knowledge of expanded fraction form to play a fun card game involving rounding.

Pop into place! This lessons builds your students' knowledge of numbers, their place value, and how to write them correctly.

Engage students in learning about data by analyzing picture graphs, then collecting data from classmates and making their own graphs!

More or less? In this hands-on lesson, your students hone important fine motor skills and learn how to compare quantities.