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“Subtract One” Strategy: Subtracting From Zeros Without Borrowing
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“Subtract One” Strategy: Subtracting From Zeros Without Borrowing
Third Grade
Many students cringe when they see a subtraction problem with multiple zeros. The “Subtract One” strategy in this lesson involves reducing the top number by one to turn the 0 digits into 9’s and then adding the one back in at the end.
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“Subtract One” Strategy: Subtracting From Zeros Without Borrowing
Lesson Plan
“Subtract One” Strategy: Subtracting From Zeros Without Borrowing
Many students cringe when they see a subtraction problem with multiple zeros. The “Subtract One” strategy in this lesson involves reducing the top number by one to turn the 0 digits into 9’s and then adding the one back in at the end.
Third Grade
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Subtracting Fractions with Different Denominators
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Subtracting Fractions with Different Denominators
Fifth Grade
Getting ready to subtract fractions? This lesson reviews how to subtract like denominators and teaches students how to subtract unlike denominators. The focus is on understanding the process and reasoning behind each step.
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Subtracting Fractions with Different Denominators
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Subtracting Fractions with Different Denominators
Getting ready to subtract fractions? This lesson reviews how to subtract like denominators and teaches students how to subtract unlike denominators. The focus is on understanding the process and reasoning behind each step.
Fifth Grade
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Single Strategy for Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
Lesson Plan
Single Strategy for Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
Fourth Grade
Teach your students to add and subtract fractions with like denominators using a strategy that works for both operations: converting mixed numbers into improper fractions and back again!
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Single Strategy for Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
Lesson Plan
Single Strategy for Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
Teach your students to add and subtract fractions with like denominators using a strategy that works for both operations: converting mixed numbers into improper fractions and back again!
Fourth Grade
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Mixed Numbers Using the Decomposition Strategy
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Mixed Numbers Using the Decomposition Strategy
Fourth Grade
Teach your students to subtract mixed numbers with like denominators using the strategy of decomposition. This strategy helps students to manipulate and break down numbers to help them solve tricky subtraction problems.
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Subtracting Mixed Numbers Using the Decomposition Strategy
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Mixed Numbers Using the Decomposition Strategy
Teach your students to subtract mixed numbers with like denominators using the strategy of decomposition. This strategy helps students to manipulate and break down numbers to help them solve tricky subtraction problems.
Fourth Grade
Lesson Plan
Regrouping with Popsicle Sticks: Double-Digit Subtraction
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Regrouping with Popsicle Sticks: Double-Digit Subtraction
Third Grade
Can you break a ten? An everyday exchange of money can help students think about regrouping to subtract. Students will use bundled popsicle sticks to see how values grouped into tens can be regrouped into ones to allow us to subtract.
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Regrouping with Popsicle Sticks: Double-Digit Subtraction
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Regrouping with Popsicle Sticks: Double-Digit Subtraction
Can you break a ten? An everyday exchange of money can help students think about regrouping to subtract. Students will use bundled popsicle sticks to see how values grouped into tens can be regrouped into ones to allow us to subtract.
Third Grade
Lesson Plan
Candy Math: All About Decimals
Lesson Plan
Candy Math: All About Decimals
Fifth Grade
Decimals
Help students add and subtract decimals in this visual, hands-on, and delicious lesson! This lesson also reinforces place value concepts with decimals.
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Candy Math: All About Decimals
Lesson Plan
Candy Math: All About Decimals
Help students add and subtract decimals in this visual, hands-on, and delicious lesson! This lesson also reinforces place value concepts with decimals.
Fifth Grade
Decimals
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Decimals, Decimals, Decimals!
Lesson Plan
Decimals, Decimals, Decimals!
Fifth Grade
This lesson combines three essential skills in one entertaining game! Students will need to add, subtract, and understand place value with decimals.
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Decimals, Decimals, Decimals!
Lesson Plan
Decimals, Decimals, Decimals!
This lesson combines three essential skills in one entertaining game! Students will need to add, subtract, and understand place value with decimals.
Fifth Grade
Lesson Plan
Subtraction with Regrouping
Lesson Plan
Subtraction with Regrouping
Third Grade
Subtraction
Help your students subtract with confidence by sharing two different strategies. Use this lesson to build on students’ understanding of subtraction and to evaluate this key skill.
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Subtraction with Regrouping
Lesson Plan
Subtraction with Regrouping
Help your students subtract with confidence by sharing two different strategies. Use this lesson to build on students’ understanding of subtraction and to evaluate this key skill.
Third Grade
Subtraction
Lesson Plan
A Liter Please
Lesson Plan
A Liter Please
Third Grade
This lesson introduces students to measuring and estimating liquid volume, using liters (l) as the standard unit of measurement.
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A Liter Please
Lesson Plan
A Liter Please
This lesson introduces students to measuring and estimating liquid volume, using liters (l) as the standard unit of measurement.
Third Grade
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Fractions Justifications
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Fractions Justifications
Fifth Grade
Continue to build on your students' understanding of unlike denominators by asking students to justify their answers of fraction subtraction. Use this lesson with the Subtracting Fractions with Different Denominators lesson.
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Subtracting Fractions Justifications
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Fractions Justifications
Continue to build on your students' understanding of unlike denominators by asking students to justify their answers of fraction subtraction. Use this lesson with the Subtracting Fractions with Different Denominators lesson.
Fifth Grade
Lesson Plan
Timeline Solutions for Time Problems
Lesson Plan
Timeline Solutions for Time Problems
Third Grade
Addition
Teach your students to add and subtract time using number lines. Your class will be gladly moving backwards and forward to the minute solving for related word problems.
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Timeline Solutions for Time Problems
Lesson Plan
Timeline Solutions for Time Problems
Teach your students to add and subtract time using number lines. Your class will be gladly moving backwards and forward to the minute solving for related word problems.
Third Grade
Addition
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Fluently Subtracting within 1000
Lesson Plan
Fluently Subtracting within 1000
Third Grade
Start your students on subtracting three-digit numbers with this lesson that breaks the problems down by place values!
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Fluently Subtracting within 1000
Lesson Plan
Fluently Subtracting within 1000
Start your students on subtracting three-digit numbers with this lesson that breaks the problems down by place values!
Third Grade
Lesson Plan
When Having Like Denominators Isn’t Enough!
Lesson Plan
When Having Like Denominators Isn’t Enough!
Fifth Grade
Does chaos ensue when your students subtract like mixed numbers and the larger fraction has a lesser numerator? Using this lesson plan, teach your class how to overcome this tricky obstacle: When having like denominators isn’t enough!
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When Having Like Denominators Isn’t Enough!
Lesson Plan
When Having Like Denominators Isn’t Enough!
Does chaos ensue when your students subtract like mixed numbers and the larger fraction has a lesser numerator? Using this lesson plan, teach your class how to overcome this tricky obstacle: When having like denominators isn’t enough!
Fifth Grade
Lesson Plan
Solving Mixed Number Word Problems Using the Three-Reads Strategy
Lesson Plan
Solving Mixed Number Word Problems Using the Three-Reads Strategy
Fifth Grade
Fractions
There’s more than one way to add and subtract mixed numbers! Use this witty lesson plan to teach your students to illustrate mixed number sums and difference while giggling with delight.
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Solving Mixed Number Word Problems Using the Three-Reads Strategy
Lesson Plan
Solving Mixed Number Word Problems Using the Three-Reads Strategy
There’s more than one way to add and subtract mixed numbers! Use this witty lesson plan to teach your students to illustrate mixed number sums and difference while giggling with delight.
Fifth Grade
Fractions
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Which Unit of Measurement?
Lesson Plan
Which Unit of Measurement?
Third Grade
Get your students explaining estimations and measurements of liquid volumes and masses of objects! Use this lesson independently or alongside
Estimating Measurements of Mass and Volume Using Metric Units.
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Which Unit of Measurement?
Lesson Plan
Which Unit of Measurement?
Get your students explaining estimations and measurements of liquid volumes and masses of objects! Use this lesson independently or alongside
Estimating Measurements of Mass and Volume Using Metric Units.
Third Grade
Lesson Plan
Estimating Measurements of Mass and Volume Using Metric Units
Lesson Plan
Estimating Measurements of Mass and Volume Using Metric Units
Third Grade
Students will become more familiar with common metric measurements by matching everyday objects with the metric mass and volume units they would use to measure them.
Lesson Plan
Estimating Measurements of Mass and Volume Using Metric Units
Lesson Plan
Estimating Measurements of Mass and Volume Using Metric Units
Students will become more familiar with common metric measurements by matching everyday objects with the metric mass and volume units they would use to measure them.
Third Grade
Lesson Plan
Make a Big Difference
Lesson Plan
Make a Big Difference
Third Grade
Master rounding and estimating skills by having students challenge their classmates in the Make a Big Difference game. Roll three dice two times to arrive at two three-digit numbers. The largest difference wins!
Lesson Plan
Make a Big Difference
Lesson Plan
Make a Big Difference
Master rounding and estimating skills by having students challenge their classmates in the Make a Big Difference game. Roll three dice two times to arrive at two three-digit numbers. The largest difference wins!
Third Grade
Lesson Plan
Comparing Batting Averages: Subtracting to the Thousandths
Lesson Plan
Comparing Batting Averages: Subtracting to the Thousandths
Fifth Grade
Subtracting decimals to the thousandths can be fun when you are using actual statistics from Major League Baseball. Students will learn a little about how averages are calculated and then compare statistics of some of baseball's top players.
Lesson Plan
Comparing Batting Averages: Subtracting to the Thousandths
Lesson Plan
Comparing Batting Averages: Subtracting to the Thousandths
Subtracting decimals to the thousandths can be fun when you are using actual statistics from Major League Baseball. Students will learn a little about how averages are calculated and then compare statistics of some of baseball's top players.
Fifth Grade
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Decimals: Presidential Problems at the Pizza Place
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Decimals: Presidential Problems at the Pizza Place
Fifth Grade
Students will practice subtracting decimal numbers by calculating the total of prominent political figures’ meals at a pizzeria. Then, students can create and solve their own word problems using the menu on the activity.
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Decimals: Presidential Problems at the Pizza Place
Lesson Plan
Subtracting Decimals: Presidential Problems at the Pizza Place
Students will practice subtracting decimal numbers by calculating the total of prominent political figures’ meals at a pizzeria. Then, students can create and solve their own word problems using the menu on the activity.
Fifth Grade
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Sharing the Subtraction Process
Lesson Plan
Sharing the Subtraction Process
Fourth Grade
In this lesson, students will practice explaining the process of subtracting numbers up to 1,000 using base-ten blocks and peer feedback. Use this lesson on its own or as support to the lesson Fluently Subtracting within 1,000.
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Sharing the Subtraction Process
Lesson Plan
Sharing the Subtraction Process
In this lesson, students will practice explaining the process of subtracting numbers up to 1,000 using base-ten blocks and peer feedback. Use this lesson on its own or as support to the lesson Fluently Subtracting within 1,000.
Fourth Grade
Lesson Plan
Step By Step Decimal Subtraction
Lesson Plan
Step By Step Decimal Subtraction
Fourth Grade
It's as easy as one, two, three...four! Introduce your students to subtracting decimals in the tenth and hundredth place using a four-step process.
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Step By Step Decimal Subtraction
Lesson Plan
Step By Step Decimal Subtraction
It's as easy as one, two, three...four! Introduce your students to subtracting decimals in the tenth and hundredth place using a four-step process.
Fourth Grade
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Writing Questions for Word Problems
Lesson Plan
Writing Questions for Word Problems
Fourth Grade
Empower students to think like mathematicians by having them create word problems related to subtracting mixed numbers. Use this lesson on its own or as support to the lesson Subtracting Mixed Numbers Using the Decomposition Strategy.
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Writing Questions for Word Problems
Lesson Plan
Writing Questions for Word Problems
Empower students to think like mathematicians by having them create word problems related to subtracting mixed numbers. Use this lesson on its own or as support to the lesson Subtracting Mixed Numbers Using the Decomposition Strategy.
Fourth Grade
Lesson Plan
Order of Operations with Fractions and Decimals
Lesson Plan
Order of Operations with Fractions and Decimals
Fourth Grade
Mixed Operations
This lesson is designed for fourth graders to practice their skills with the order of operations along with multiplying fractions and adding or subtracting decimals.
Lesson Plan
Order of Operations with Fractions and Decimals
Lesson Plan
Order of Operations with Fractions and Decimals
This lesson is designed for fourth graders to practice their skills with the order of operations along with multiplying fractions and adding or subtracting decimals.
Fourth Grade
Mixed Operations
Lesson Plan
Clap Counting with Multiples
Lesson Plan
Clap Counting with Multiples
Fourth Grade
Finding the least common multiple is an essential skill for comparing, adding, and subtracting fractions! This lesson introduces students to this concept in an interactive way.
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Clap Counting with Multiples
Lesson Plan
Clap Counting with Multiples
Finding the least common multiple is an essential skill for comparing, adding, and subtracting fractions! This lesson introduces students to this concept in an interactive way.
Fourth Grade
Lesson Plan
Get There On Time: Elapsed Time Word Problem Strategies
Lesson Plan
Get There On Time: Elapsed Time Word Problem Strategies
Third Grade
In this lesson, students will practice strategies of subtracting time and apply them to real life scenarios. Also, use this game with the lesson that teaches addition of elapsed time called Beyond Just Addition.
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Get There On Time: Elapsed Time Word Problem Strategies
Lesson Plan
Get There On Time: Elapsed Time Word Problem Strategies
In this lesson, students will practice strategies of subtracting time and apply them to real life scenarios. Also, use this game with the lesson that teaches addition of elapsed time called Beyond Just Addition.
Third Grade
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Explain Fraction Conversions
Lesson Plan
Explain Fraction Conversions
Fifth Grade
Fractions
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.
Lesson Plan
Explain Fraction Conversions
Lesson Plan
Explain Fraction Conversions
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.
Fifth Grade
Fractions
Lesson Plan
Book Orders: Money
Lesson Plan
Book Orders: Money
Third Grade
Don't throw away all of those extra copies of your book order forms! They make great springboards for math lessons. This lesson integrates them into activities designed to help young learners with money math.
Lesson Plan
Book Orders: Money
Lesson Plan
Book Orders: Money
Don't throw away all of those extra copies of your book order forms! They make great springboards for math lessons. This lesson integrates them into activities designed to help young learners with money math.
Third Grade
Lesson Plan
Decimal Multiplication Estimations
Lesson Plan
Decimal Multiplication Estimations
Fifth Grade
Challenge students to relate the multiplication of decimals to that of whole numbers. Have them justify their estimations in partners. Use this lesson on its own or use it as support to the lesson Multiply Decimals with Models.
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Decimal Multiplication Estimations
Lesson Plan
Decimal Multiplication Estimations
Challenge students to relate the multiplication of decimals to that of whole numbers. Have them justify their estimations in partners. Use this lesson on its own or use it as support to the lesson Multiply Decimals with Models.
Fifth Grade
Lesson Plan
Dividing Decimals: Estimation
Lesson Plan
Dividing Decimals: Estimation
Fifth Grade
Teach your students to round decimals to whole numbers to estimate a quotient. In this lesson, students will have so much fun playing the Estimation Station game, they might forget they are learning!
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Dividing Decimals: Estimation
Lesson Plan
Dividing Decimals: Estimation
Teach your students to round decimals to whole numbers to estimate a quotient. In this lesson, students will have so much fun playing the Estimation Station game, they might forget they are learning!
Fifth Grade
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Writing Decimal Subtraction Problems
Lesson Plan
Writing Decimal Subtraction Problems
Fourth Grade
Empower your students with the opportunity to design decimal subtraction problems with a given difference (answer). Use this lesson on its own or as support for the lesson Step By Step Decimal Subtraction.
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Writing Decimal Subtraction Problems
Lesson Plan
Writing Decimal Subtraction Problems
Empower your students with the opportunity to design decimal subtraction problems with a given difference (answer). Use this lesson on its own or as support for the lesson Step By Step Decimal Subtraction.
Fourth Grade
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