Curated OER
Symmetry of the Addition Table
Help your class discover the commutative property of addition with this exploration of the addition table. By folding and coloring the table, a symmetry is found that directs students to an understanding of this crucial mathematical...
Curated OER
Halves, Thirds, and Sixths
An excellent activity that effectively pulls together the concepts of area, fractions, and equivalent fractions! Using 3x2 rectangular arrays, 3rd graders are introduced to the concept of area in terms of square units. Building on this...
Curated OER
The Square Counting Shortcut
An excellent lesson plan that encourages students to discover how complex figures can be broken into simpler shapes when measuring area. Working with block letters, learners are given the freedom to develop their own strategies for...
Concord Consortium
The Trouble with Tables
Tackle these tables. A performance task has learners complete two puzzles using addition and subtraction. They must fill in tables with missing addends, sums, minuends, subtrahends, or differences.
Fluence Learning
Writing Informational Text: Community and School Gardens
Two informational texts feature community gardens of the past and present and how seeds grow. Scholars read, discuss what they have read, complete a timeline, define words, and compose a brief essay about the texts' main idea.
Fluence Learning
Writing a Narrative: Two Frogs
Three options offer young writers the opportunity to read a short story, answer questions, and write a response. A handy language arts resource focuses on reading comprehension and analyziing the story's lesson: look before you leap.
Rock A Lingua
EL Juego de las Preguntas (Quiz Yourself!)
Put your Spanish skills to the test with an interactive self-assessment tool. Class members select the correct Spanish translation of an English phrase to score ten points and win the game!
Fluence Learning
Solve Problems Using Measurement Concepts
Young mathematicians demonstrate what they know about measurement with a four-task assessment that focuses on estimation, length, and inches.
Fluence Learning
Writing an Opinion: Is Pride Good or Bad?
Does pride really goeth before the fall, or can it be essential to one's development? Second graders read two of Aesop's fables that refer to pride in their morals, and write a short essay about whether pride is good or bad, based on...
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparisons 2
Need a quick review for greater than or less than? Young mathematicians use <, >, or = to complete a set of seven comparison number sentences.
Illustrative Mathematics
Ten $10s Make $100
If ten $10s make $100, then how much money do twenty $10s make? Young bankers find the number of bills required to make base ten amounts in three different word problems.
Illustrative Mathematics
Saving Money 1
How many days will it take Louis to save enough money for school supplies and new pair of shoes? Focus on Common Core math standards with a two-part task that involves a word problem and counting manipulatives.
Illustrative Mathematics
Three Composing/Decomposing Problems
Practice composing and decomposing numbers in base-ten using three word problems. Each problem presents a different scenario requiring learners to explain their thinking, find the number of ones, and find out different ways to make a...
Illustrative Mathematics
Counting Stamps
Stamps come in sheets, strips, and singles. Young mathematicians use their knowledge of hundreds, tens, and ones to determine how many stamps Mike has altogether.
Illustrative Mathematics
Looking at Numbers Every Which Way
Assess class members' ability to look at numbers every which way. A helpful learning exercise contain four tasks, including writing numbers as a sum of 100's, 10's, and 1's, and drawing a picture to represent the number.
Fluence Learning
Divide Shapes
Let's partition rectangles into equal parts. Assess learners on their ability to divide shapes into equal parts, and their ability to explain their thinking.
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparisons 1
A seven question worksheet asks learners to use place value strategies to decide if each number comparison is true or false.
Illustrative Mathematics
Making 124
How many ways can you make the number 124 using only tens and ones? Use a task that prompts young mathematicians to make 124 in as many ways as possible.
Illustrative Mathematics
One, Ten, and One Hundred More and Less
What's 1 more or less than a number? What's 10 more or 10 less than a given number? What's 100 more or 100 less than a number? These are the types of problems learners must answer in a six-question worksheet.
Illustrative Mathematics
Saving Money 2
Adding money is a key skill in life. Give a instructional activity that requires second graders to find the total amount of money Louis needs to make certain school supply purchases.
Illustrative Mathematics
Regrouping
What number does 6 tens and 16 ones represent? How is it different from or similar to the number that 7 tens and 6 ones represent? This is the type of questions learners are asked to solve as a way to understand the concept of regrouping.
Illustrative Mathematics
Red and Blue Tiles
Here, second graders are tasked to find the patterns that have an even number of tiles. They are asked to think about why these patterns are even or odd and explain how they know.
Illustrative Mathematics
Largest Number Game
Learners are asked to make the largest three-digit number they can with the numbers 1, 8, and 5 in a quick assessment worksheet.
Illustrative Mathematics
Digits 2-5-7
Given three digits, what is the largest humber you can make? What is the smallest number you can make? These are the questions second graders are prompted to answer in a three-question quiz.