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Curated OER

Number Addition Race

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Practice basic addition facts and measuring skills. In this addition and measurement lesson, students are provided with drywall tape and work in groups of four at a long table. Partners take turns generating addends and marking the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Many Ways to Do Addition

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A great aspect of teaching math is that children have the freedom to solve problems using a variety of different strategies. The focus of this lesson is for young mathematicians to become aware of many ways of answering addition...
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Curated OER

Jump Rope Math

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars practice grade level math skills. In this math lesson, students solve math facts on index cards and collaboratively arrange them in numerical order on a jump rope. Correct order earns the team a chance to physically move...
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Curated OER

Solving Simple Addition and Subtraction Equations Using Fact Families

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore addition fact families. In this addition and subtraction fact family math activity, students click and drag objects on the Smart Board to create visual representations of fact families. Students use fact family...
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Curated OER

Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Fact families, and the relationship between addition and subtraction are the foucs of this lesson. Learners explore strategies to help with their addition and subtraction facts. They use doubles, related facts, and fact families to help...
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Curated OER

"Reviewing Facts Through 10" Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Explore the joy of math with you little learners! They practice creating math problems with numbers from a fact family using numbers 1-10. They work independently with a set of connecting cubes to aid them in creating number sentences...
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Curated OER

Beginning Addition

For Teachers K
Students examine the concept of addition by adding two one-digit numbers whose sum is less than ten. They count and add goldfish crackers together, chorally repeating each problem.
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Curated OER

Chalkboard Relay

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars solve addition facts. In this computation instructional activity, students participate in a relay activity where one player writes a number on the chalkboard and the second player writes a second number underneath it. The...
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Curated OER

Data Analysis and Probability Race to the Finish

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars practice addition facts, record data, and construct a bar graph. In this probability lesson, students participate in a board game in which bicycles move towards a finish line based on players completing addition problems....
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Curated OER

Inverse Relationship Between Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Elementary schoolers review their knowledge of addition and subtraction through studying fact families. They use cubes to help them add or subtract. Young scholars answer the teachers question with addition and subtraction fact answers.
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Curated OER

Introduce Double-Digit Addition

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars generate a list of numbers then classify them into groups of single digit and double-digit numbers. After listening to a children's book about double-digit addition, they work with tens and ones blocks to solve...
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Curated OER

Addition Facts With Sums to 18

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore addition facts with sums to 18. Using Unifix cubes, students demonstrate addition sentences. They use a variety of manipulatives to illustrate addition facts for different sums. Students participate in a flash card game...
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Curated OER

Musical Hoop Addition

For Teachers 1st
Musical chairs is a great activity to get children moving while still paying attention and listening. This activity, which is based on musical chairs, gets students moving while learning basic addition facts. They hop from hoop to hoop...
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Curated OER

Introducing Multiplication

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners will look at repeating addition examples and view how they can be written as multiplication. They use manipulatives to complete a repeating addition lesson and show it on graph paper. They also chart what they have found and...
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Curated OER

Gingerbread Math

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice addition facts. In this addition lesson, students get an addition problem to solve. If they get it correct, they open up a door on a gingerbread house which gives a decoration to add to a gingerbread man. 
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Curated OER

Balancing Discoveries

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students use a balance to help them with their addition facts. In this addition lesson plan, students also play the seven up game to memorize their facts.
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Curated OER

How Much is a Name Worth?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use simple addition facts to compute a value to their name. They add larger numbers to compute the combined value of all the names in their group. Finally, they use the group totals to compute the combined value of all the...
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Curated OER

Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20 - Manipulative

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Here is a good lesson plan that will allow your student to practice their addition and subtraction facts to 20. They practice facts using fact cards and practice strategies such as doubles strategies, and count to 10 strategies.
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Curated OER

Butterfly Addition: Color by Numbers

For Teachers K - 1st
Children learning to add numbers up to 11 develop the strategy of using the larger number as the first addend and counting on from there to find a sum. They define addition and review the meaning of the plus (+) symbol. To practice, they...
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Curated OER

Sum It Up!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice addition facts. In this math lesson, students play "Sum it Up" in order in increase their speed in recalling their addition facts.
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Curated OER

Using Tens Frames To Build Basic Facts of Five

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are introduced to the basic addition facts of five. Through modeling and instruction and the use of ten frames, they discover the various ways numbers can be added together to equal five. (4+1, 2+3, etc.) They repeat with facts...
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Curated OER

Rice Cookies Addition

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice adding rice cookies. In this mental math lesson, 4th graders get into groups and call out numbers to each other to add mentally. Students use the rice cookies to show the answer.
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Curated OER

Let's Learn Those Facts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice adding one digit numbers.  In this practicing adding one digit numbers activity, students roll dice to determine which one-digit numbers they will add together.  Students practice adding one digit numbers for...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
First graders act out number stories from number cards. In order to learn about addition and subtraction up to 20 lesson, learners become the manipulatives and line up to show the number stories.

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