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Better Lesson: There's Nothing to Sphere!

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergarteners love to identify shapes in their environment. In order effectively do that, they must be able to recognize different shapes by their specific attributes. In this instructional activity kindergartners learn about the...
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Better Lesson: Well That's Different!

For Teachers 1st Standards
Finding different combinations to cover a given pattern block is the idea of the day. Students will create pattern block shapes using other pattern blocks.
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Better Lesson: Student, Student, What Do You See?

For Teachers 1st Standards
Most bears are getting ready to hibernate this time of year. NOT IN MY ROOM! These little brown bears will be on the hunt for shapes they see.
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Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking
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Better Lesson: Designing a Restaurant

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Understanding area and perimeter can help children work on solutions to very important, real world problems.
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Better Lesson: Using Area as an Architect (Stations Day 1)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
In this multi-day activity, 3rd graders make 3 different models of an orphanage floor plan using Google Drawing, Virtual Graph paper, and a construction of rectilinear shapes, to calculate the area of each room using units square.
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Better Lesson: Polygons Explore the Possibilities

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Online drawing programs allow students to explore many possibilities with polygons!
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Better Lesson: Polygons: Introduction & Investigation

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Interacting with polygons and testing the definitions can be engaging, fun and build a powerful, individualized understanding.
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Better Lesson: Measuring Our Classroom's Perimeter and Area!

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Connect new measurement knowledge and skills to the students' immediate environment.
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Better Lesson: Great Buildings of the World: Create Your Own! (Day 1)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Creating their own building is a hands-on, minds-on way for students to explore how polygons create 3D solids.
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Better Lesson: Distributive Property, Day 2

For Teachers 3rd Standards
The children have been practicing decomposing areas and now digits in order to understand and use the distributive property.
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Better Lesson: Distributive Property, Day 1

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Children need to move from the manipulative expressions of the distributive property into the mathematical equations eventually. This lesson is the first step in leading them to that goal.
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Better Lesson: Differences With Shapes

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Differences between shapes are determined through measurement skills.
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Better Lesson: How Much Paint Do We Need?

For Teachers 3rd Standards
This lesson is a real world task that combines many skills the students have learned throughout the school year.
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Better Lesson: What Makes a Shape? Analyzing and Script Writing

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders will use the bat houses we built as examples of various quadrilaterals.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Acceleration: At a Glance

For Students 9th - 10th
This article talks about how acceleration is the change of velocity as time passes anytime we speed up or slow down, or change direction, we undergo acceleration.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Advanced Reflections

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find the reflection that maps a given figure to another and draw the image of a reflection. The lines of reflection in this exercise have a wide range of slopes.
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Better Lesson: Rockin' Rhombuses!

For Teachers K Standards
Rhombus, the mathematically correct term for "diamond" is the focus of this interactive lesson plan.
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Better Lesson: Shape Monsters!

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergartners love making things, and this activity allows them to create a unique shape monster and practice numbers recording the shapes used.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry for Ccss

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete high school Geometry course that includes interactives in every lesson and videos in some. Adaptive Practice questions ensure the material is understood before moving on to build on it. Every lesson also has specifically...
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PBS

Pbs: Count on It!: Blossom and Snappy Go Camping

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy help Robbie prepare for her camping trip. They learn about dehydrated food and the amount of water she will need for the four days and four nights she will be away. They also learn how to pick the right spot at the...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grades 9 12 Math Teacher Library

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As part of Louisiana Department of Education's teacher support toolbox library, this page contains the 9-12 Math resources.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Geometry

For Students 7th Standards
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in using geometry.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Odd Squad: Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Welcome to Odd Squad: the zaniest, craziest team of kid investigators around! Explore content below targeted at making elementary-level math a fun, imaginative experience, mixing concepts like arithmetic and geometry with fantastical...