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How Pictures Can Help Us Read
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How Pictures Can Help Us Read
Kindergarten
Measurement
In this lesson, students will learn how to decode unknown words in a texts using context clues. Students will be introduced to the idea of opposites and will practice identifying opposites. This lesson can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Is It the Same?
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How Pictures Can Help Us Read
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How Pictures Can Help Us Read
In this lesson, students will learn how to decode unknown words in a texts using context clues. Students will be introduced to the idea of opposites and will practice identifying opposites. This lesson can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Is It the Same?
Kindergarten
Measurement
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Multiplying Multiples
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Multiplying Multiples
Fourth Grade
Place Value
Introduce your students to multiplying multi-digit numbers with this lesson that gives them plenty of practice and has them play a game with a partner that makes the lesson fun!
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Multiplying Multiples
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Multiplying Multiples
Introduce your students to multiplying multi-digit numbers with this lesson that gives them plenty of practice and has them play a game with a partner that makes the lesson fun!
Fourth Grade
Place Value
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Let's Graph Our Fall Favorites!
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Let's Graph Our Fall Favorites!
Second Grade
Data and Graphing
This engaging math lesson combines all of your kid's fall favorites as they learn to represent data using a bar graph.
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Let's Graph Our Fall Favorites!
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Let's Graph Our Fall Favorites!
This engaging math lesson combines all of your kid's fall favorites as they learn to represent data using a bar graph.
Second Grade
Data and Graphing
Lesson Plan
Express Yourself!
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Express Yourself!
Fifth Grade
Algebra
Help your students create a basis for future math classes with this lesson that teaches children about math expressions and how they can interpret them.
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Express Yourself!
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Express Yourself!
Help your students create a basis for future math classes with this lesson that teaches children about math expressions and how they can interpret them.
Fifth Grade
Algebra
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Perimeter of Play
Lesson Plan
Perimeter of Play
Fourth Grade
Geometry
Practice calculating perimeter with the placement of carnival-themed games with given rectangular dimensions. Your students will use grid paper to determine the location of all the games they choose to make the perfect carnival.
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Perimeter of Play
Lesson Plan
Perimeter of Play
Practice calculating perimeter with the placement of carnival-themed games with given rectangular dimensions. Your students will use grid paper to determine the location of all the games they choose to make the perfect carnival.
Fourth Grade
Geometry
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Dicey Division
Lesson Plan
Dicey Division
Fifth Grade
Division
In this hands-on lesson, students will learn and use two methods of dividing whole numbers. They will roll dice to create their own unique equations for solving!
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Dicey Division
Lesson Plan
Dicey Division
In this hands-on lesson, students will learn and use two methods of dividing whole numbers. They will roll dice to create their own unique equations for solving!
Fifth Grade
Division
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EL
Identifying Coin Values
Lesson Plan
Identifying Coin Values
Second Grade
Time and Money
We know that exposure and repetition are very important when teaching students to recognize coins and identify their values. Use this hands-on lesson that can be used alongside Counting Coins or as an independent lesson!
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EL
Identifying Coin Values
Lesson Plan
Identifying Coin Values
We know that exposure and repetition are very important when teaching students to recognize coins and identify their values. Use this hands-on lesson that can be used alongside Counting Coins or as an independent lesson!
Second Grade
Time and Money
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EL
Subtraction Strategies
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Subtraction Strategies
First Grade
Subtraction
Get your students synthesizing various subtraction strategies as they work with a partner to solve word problems. This lesson can be used alone or with the lesson plan
Show Me the Money! Two-Digit Subtraction.
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Subtraction Strategies
Lesson Plan
Subtraction Strategies
Get your students synthesizing various subtraction strategies as they work with a partner to solve word problems. This lesson can be used alone or with the lesson plan
Show Me the Money! Two-Digit Subtraction.
First Grade
Subtraction
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Comparing Groups to 20
Lesson Plan
Comparing Groups to 20
Pre-K
Numbers and Counting
In this counting lesson plan, your students will practice using numbers 11 to 20 while learning about comparison.
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Comparing Groups to 20
Lesson Plan
Comparing Groups to 20
In this counting lesson plan, your students will practice using numbers 11 to 20 while learning about comparison.
Pre-K
Numbers and Counting
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What is it Telling Me? Creating and Interpreting Line Plots
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What is it Telling Me? Creating and Interpreting Line Plots
Third Grade
Data and Graphing
Line plots are a great way to introduce your students to graphing data. In this lesson, your students will learn how to create a line plot and also practice interpreting line plots.
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What is it Telling Me? Creating and Interpreting Line Plots
Lesson Plan
What is it Telling Me? Creating and Interpreting Line Plots
Line plots are a great way to introduce your students to graphing data. In this lesson, your students will learn how to create a line plot and also practice interpreting line plots.
Third Grade
Data and Graphing
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EL
Strategies to Make Multiplication a Breeze
Lesson Plan
Strategies to Make Multiplication a Breeze
Third Grade
Multiplication
With this lesson, your students will see how the order of the factors does not affect the product in a multiplication expression. Use this on its own or alongside
You're On a Roll! Practicing Multiplication Facts.
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Strategies to Make Multiplication a Breeze
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Strategies to Make Multiplication a Breeze
With this lesson, your students will see how the order of the factors does not affect the product in a multiplication expression. Use this on its own or alongside
You're On a Roll! Practicing Multiplication Facts.
Third Grade
Multiplication
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Simple Addition: If You Give a Student a Cookie
Lesson Plan
Simple Addition: If You Give a Student a Cookie
Pre-K
Numbers and Counting
Help your students get ahead with this sweet lesson that gives them a strong base for understanding simple addition. Using cookies as manipulatives helps ease your students into math in a fun way.
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Simple Addition: If You Give a Student a Cookie
Lesson Plan
Simple Addition: If You Give a Student a Cookie
Help your students get ahead with this sweet lesson that gives them a strong base for understanding simple addition. Using cookies as manipulatives helps ease your students into math in a fun way.
Pre-K
Numbers and Counting
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EL
Money Values
Lesson Plan
Money Values
Second Grade
Place Value
Use this scaffolded EL lesson to teach students about money and the bills we use to pay for things. Use alongside Base Ten Money: Hundreds, Tens, and Ones or alone as an independent lesson.
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EL
Money Values
Lesson Plan
Money Values
Use this scaffolded EL lesson to teach students about money and the bills we use to pay for things. Use alongside Base Ten Money: Hundreds, Tens, and Ones or alone as an independent lesson.
Second Grade
Place Value
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EL
Build It on a Ten Frame
Lesson Plan
Build It on a Ten Frame
First Grade
Addition
Students will get plenty of practice composing tens with ten frames to add to 20! Use this scaffolded EL Lesson alone or for more addition practice before teaching the
Scavenger Hunt Addition
lesson.
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EL
Build It on a Ten Frame
Lesson Plan
Build It on a Ten Frame
Students will get plenty of practice composing tens with ten frames to add to 20! Use this scaffolded EL Lesson alone or for more addition practice before teaching the
Scavenger Hunt Addition
lesson.
First Grade
Addition
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Dividing Decimals By Powers of 10
Lesson Plan
Dividing Decimals By Powers of 10
Fifth Grade
Exponents and Roots
Your students will be able to divide decimal numbers by powers of 10 and explain decimal placement patterns in the quotient.
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Dividing Decimals By Powers of 10
Lesson Plan
Dividing Decimals By Powers of 10
Your students will be able to divide decimal numbers by powers of 10 and explain decimal placement patterns in the quotient.
Fifth Grade
Exponents and Roots
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EL
Add Them Up!
Lesson Plan
Add Them Up!
First Grade
Addition
Challenge students to find the sum of three addends while playing a fun dice game! Use this scaffolded EL Lesson alone or for more addition practice adding with dice in preparation for the
Active Math
lesson.
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EL
Add Them Up!
Lesson Plan
Add Them Up!
Challenge students to find the sum of three addends while playing a fun dice game! Use this scaffolded EL Lesson alone or for more addition practice adding with dice in preparation for the
Active Math
lesson.
First Grade
Addition
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EL
Circles in a Cup
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Circles in a Cup
First Grade
Addition
Help students visualize the missing addend in an addition problem with this fun game. Use this scaffolded EL lesson alone or for more practice before teaching the
Mystery Addends: Representing Word Problems
lesson.
Lesson Plan
EL
Circles in a Cup
Lesson Plan
Circles in a Cup
Help students visualize the missing addend in an addition problem with this fun game. Use this scaffolded EL lesson alone or for more practice before teaching the
Mystery Addends: Representing Word Problems
lesson.
First Grade
Addition
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EL
Long, Longer, Longest
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Long, Longer, Longest
First Grade
Measurement
Students will love working together to create a display that demonstrates understanding of relative length. Use alone or with the lesson
Order Up Measurement.
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EL
Long, Longer, Longest
Lesson Plan
Long, Longer, Longest
Students will love working together to create a display that demonstrates understanding of relative length. Use alone or with the lesson
Order Up Measurement.
First Grade
Measurement
Lesson Plan
Powers of 10
Lesson Plan
Powers of 10
Fifth Grade
Exponents and Roots
Teach your students to recognize patterns of zeros when multiplying by powers of 10 with exponents.
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Powers of 10
Lesson Plan
Powers of 10
Teach your students to recognize patterns of zeros when multiplying by powers of 10 with exponents.
Fifth Grade
Exponents and Roots
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EL
Let's Talk About Multiplication Facts
Lesson Plan
Let's Talk About Multiplication Facts
Third Grade
Multiplication
It's not enough to just memorize the multiplication table! It helps students to know how to explain their strategy to find the product too. Teach this lesson on its own or use it as support for the lesson Slap and Roll Timed Multiplication.
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EL
Let's Talk About Multiplication Facts
Lesson Plan
Let's Talk About Multiplication Facts
It's not enough to just memorize the multiplication table! It helps students to know how to explain their strategy to find the product too. Teach this lesson on its own or use it as support for the lesson Slap and Roll Timed Multiplication.
Third Grade
Multiplication
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EL
Solving for One and Ten More
Lesson Plan
Solving for One and Ten More
First Grade
Addition
Students put their understanding of one and 10 more to work as they write word problems for classmates to solve. This lesson plan can be used alone or with
Picture Addition.
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EL
Solving for One and Ten More
Lesson Plan
Solving for One and Ten More
Students put their understanding of one and 10 more to work as they write word problems for classmates to solve. This lesson plan can be used alone or with
Picture Addition.
First Grade
Addition
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EL
What's the Difference?
Lesson Plan
What's the Difference?
First Grade
Subtraction
What's the difference.... between two numbers? Play this fun game to get students talking and practicing subtraction. Use this scaffolded EL lesson plan alone or alongside
Subtraction Card Sharks.
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EL
What's the Difference?
Lesson Plan
What's the Difference?
What's the difference.... between two numbers? Play this fun game to get students talking and practicing subtraction. Use this scaffolded EL lesson plan alone or alongside
Subtraction Card Sharks.
First Grade
Subtraction
Lesson Plan
EL
Addition Number Grab
Lesson Plan
Addition Number Grab
First Grade
Addition
Give students plenty of practice adding to 20 with this fun game! Use this scaffolded EL Lesson alone or for more addition practice before teaching the
Do Math with M&Ms
lesson.
Lesson Plan
EL
Addition Number Grab
Lesson Plan
Addition Number Grab
Give students plenty of practice adding to 20 with this fun game! Use this scaffolded EL Lesson alone or for more addition practice before teaching the
Do Math with M&Ms
lesson.
First Grade
Addition
Lesson Plan
EL
Explaining Expressions
Lesson Plan
Explaining Expressions
Fifth Grade
Mixed Operations
Challenge students to decompose numbers within multiplication expressions. Use this lesson as a standalone lesson or as support to the lesson Solving Expressions in Word Problems.
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EL
Explaining Expressions
Lesson Plan
Explaining Expressions
Challenge students to decompose numbers within multiplication expressions. Use this lesson as a standalone lesson or as support to the lesson Solving Expressions in Word Problems.
Fifth Grade
Mixed Operations
Lesson Plan
Mixed Word Problems with RDW Strategy
Lesson Plan
Mixed Word Problems with RDW Strategy
Fifth Grade
Mixed Operations
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.
Lesson Plan
Mixed Word Problems with RDW Strategy
Lesson Plan
Mixed Word Problems with RDW Strategy
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.
Fifth Grade
Mixed Operations
Lesson Plan
Time to Roll
Lesson Plan
Time to Roll
First Grade
Time and Money
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!
Lesson Plan
Time to Roll
Lesson Plan
Time to Roll
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!
First Grade
Time and Money
Lesson Plan
Magical Movement
Lesson Plan
Magical Movement
Kindergarten
Geometry
It’s magic! In this lesson, students will “magically” move shapes together to form new shapes. Clay and toothpicks equal hands-on fun! Tangram challenges are provided for those students who need that little extra challenge.
Lesson Plan
Magical Movement
Lesson Plan
Magical Movement
It’s magic! In this lesson, students will “magically” move shapes together to form new shapes. Clay and toothpicks equal hands-on fun! Tangram challenges are provided for those students who need that little extra challenge.
Kindergarten
Geometry
Lesson Plan
Chinese New Year’s Great Money Count
Lesson Plan
Chinese New Year’s Great Money Count
Second Grade
Time and Money
During the Chinese New Year, giving red envelopes full of money is a custom that symbolizes good luck. Use this lesson to teach your students about holiday traditions as they practice counting money.
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Chinese New Year’s Great Money Count
Lesson Plan
Chinese New Year’s Great Money Count
During the Chinese New Year, giving red envelopes full of money is a custom that symbolizes good luck. Use this lesson to teach your students about holiday traditions as they practice counting money.
Second Grade
Time and Money
Lesson Plan
Guess the Operation
Lesson Plan
Guess the Operation
Third Grade
Mixed Operations
Want to strengthen your student’s multiplication and division skills? This lesson uses fact families to help students practice those skills.
Lesson Plan
Guess the Operation
Lesson Plan
Guess the Operation
Want to strengthen your student’s multiplication and division skills? This lesson uses fact families to help students practice those skills.
Third Grade
Mixed Operations
Lesson Plan
EL
Fraction Visuals
Lesson Plan
Fraction Visuals
Fourth Grade
Fractions
This lesson helps your students become confident mathematicians when it comes to representing fractions visually in a variety of ways. Use this lesson as a pre-lesson to Fraction Hunt or teach it independently.
Lesson Plan
EL
Fraction Visuals
Lesson Plan
Fraction Visuals
This lesson helps your students become confident mathematicians when it comes to representing fractions visually in a variety of ways. Use this lesson as a pre-lesson to Fraction Hunt or teach it independently.
Fourth Grade
Fractions
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