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Multiplication of Whole Numbers
Break up multiplication into more easily conceptualized math operations. Scholars first examine an array of apples and write a multiplication sentence to represent it. Then, they determine which of four sets of addends is equivalent to a...
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Smallest to Largest: Decimals to the Tenths Place
Dealing with decimals in your fourth grade class? Make them easy to understand with a straightforward instructional activity, which instructs youngsters to put groups of decimals in order from smallest to largest. A great way to review...
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Subtraction Fractions, Common Denominators
How many steps do you need to subtract fractions with common denominators? Thirty problems await your kids, all with outlined steps for easy solving. Some fractions need to be reduced, while others will be solved after one step. An...
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Line With Printmaking
Third graders investigate the use of lines in different pieces of art by creating their own ink print. In this art analysis lesson, 3rd graders identify the contours and lines of natural objects such as twigs and leaves. Students...
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Fractions and Measurement
Using a Smart Board, or a plain ol' white board or chalkboard, the teacher pulls up a grid and demonstrates how squares and rectangles can be divided up into equal parts. The class will get their own graph paper to draw shapes and divide...
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Count by 5s, 10s, and 100s
Skip counting is a valuable skill; scholars practice counting by five, 10, and 100 as they examine these three number sequences. In the first one, learners circle the number that doesn't follow the sequence of adding five. Then, they...
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Money Matters
Students practice spending money by completing math word sentences. In this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money....
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Mr. V's 'Math Awareness Game'
Learners play a math game to reinforce math skills. They calculate a problem, if they have the card with the correct answer, they hold that card up. All incorrect cards go to the student holding the correct answer or the teacher.
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Introduction to the Food Pyramid
Students review information on the food pyramid, either in printed works or on the Internet, to research healthy eating habits.
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Fraction and Decimal Equivalency
Mathematicians make representations of fractional parts of a whole and learn that a decimal is another way to represent a fractional part. Understanding is extended by comparing and ordering fractions and decimals on a number line. This...
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Regrouping Ten Ones for One Ten
Young scholars explore regrouping. In this hands-on math place value lesson, students construct models using connecting cubes and place value mats to solve simple addition problems that require regrouping.
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Know Your Polygons!
Shape shifters recognize characteristics of polygons. Embracing language arts skills in addition to math, they use a thesaurus to pinpoint specific attributes of a set of polygons. They also participate in a 21-question guessing game...
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Combining Coins to Make Equal Monetary Amounts
Third graders determine how to make equivalent amounts of money using different sets of coins. For this money lesson, 3rd graders review money vocabulary and coin values before determining how to count bills and coins in different sets...
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Changing Twines: Exploring Area and Perimeter
Third graders review formulas for area and perimeter in quadrilaterals. They arrange pre-cut twine on a centimeter graph paper to create non-congruent quadrilaterals. They calculate the perimeter and area of each form.
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Reaction Time
Third graders review important vocabulary to explain measures of central tendency and reaction time. In pairs, they measure reaction time of dropping and catching a ruler. Data is collected after repeated catches and information is...
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Money, Money, Honey Bunny!
Young scholars read a story about spending and saving money and talk about the difference between goods and services. In this money lesson plan, students also play a matching game to review the story and practice rhyming words from the...
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Usage and Interpretation of Graphs
Students explore graphing. In this graphing lesson plan, students predict how many shoe eyelets are present in the classroom. Students count eyelets and work in groups to organize and chart the data collected. Students put all the data...
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Money
Students practice counting money. In this counting and comparing money lesson, students review the value of coins and use play money to count out five dollars. Students complete a worksheet to determine what items they could...
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What's Your Angle?
Third graders read the story, Magic Schoolbus Inside the Human Body. Then they form right, acute, and obtuse angles using the joints inside their bodies. They write a brief summary about what they learned about angles as a review the...
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Money Bags
Third graders explore different combinations of coins that can be used for specified amounts of money using paper money and tree diagrams. They write money amounts in different forms. Groups utilize a tree diagram imbedded in this lesson...
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Adding and Subtracting Money
Students investigate U.S. currency by pretending to buy food. In this money instructional activity, students discover the vocabulary and value for each U.S. coin, then add the amounts in dollars and cents of food items they wish to...
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Third Grade Geometry
Third graders describe 2D and 3D shapes. For this geometry lesson, 3rd graders watch a PowerPoint presentation showing the terms used when analyzing shapes: vertex, edge, angle, side, and face. They compare shapes to see what they have...
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Butterfly Lesson Plans
Students study the life cycle of the Monarch Chrysalis. For this butterfly life cycle lesson, students study the monarch butterfly life cycle and focus on the fourth stage of the life cycle. Students draw a picture about the fourth stage...
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How To Measure Time
Students practice telling time on an analog clock. In this time measurement instructional activity, students use individual analog clocks to identify the hour and minute hand. Students identify how to tell time by moving the hour and...