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Illustrative Mathematics

Adding Tenths and Hundredths

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Learning to add fractions with different denominators presents a big hurdle for many young mathematicians. Simplify the process for learners with this series of practice problems involving the friendly fractions tenths and hundredths....
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Curated OER

Adding Tenths

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders pictorially represent tenths place with decimal bars and add decimals in the tenths place; students use decimal bars to represent tenths and solve simple addition problems with the tenths place.
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Curated OER

Study Buddies: Adding and Subtracting Decimals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students will work with a coach to add and subtract numbers with decimals to the hundredths. Students will follow a step-by-step process and notes are provided for the coach.
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

The Power of Ten: Building a Magnitude Model

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Add visual representation to teaching place value with a magnitude model. Using adding machine tape, pupils build a linear place value strip from 1 to 100.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Dimes and Pennies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Help your fourth graders make cents out of fractions and decimals with this short word problem. After learning that dimes are one-tenth and pennies one-hundredth of a dollar, students write a fraction and decimal for a given number...
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Curated OER

Adding And Subtracting Decimals

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this adding and subtracting decimals worksheet, students, with a partner, problem solve and calculate the answers to ten addition and subtraction equations or word problems.
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Curated OER

The Counting Caterpillar

For Teachers K
A daily counting routine builds a caterpillar with 100 body segments (marked with symbols to indicate 2s, 5s, and 10s) by the 100th day of school. Provides structured repetition as part of the morning routine so that by 100th day,...
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EngageNY

Volume of Composite Solids

For Students 8th Standards
Take finding volume of 3-D figures to the next level. In the 22nd lesson of the series, learners find the volume of composite solids. The lesson the asks them to deconstruct the composites into familiar figures and use volume formulas.
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Curated OER

Adding in Parts

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are able to split whole numbers into parts. They make numbers up to a tidy number. Students add and subtract tenths to make a decimals number into a whole number. They are able to add whole numbers up to three digits.
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Curated OER

Teaching the Holocaust through Literature

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Centered on the short story "The Tenth Man" by Polish Holocaust survivor Ida Fink, here is a solid one-day resource to support study of World War II or Nazi history, short stories, or to complement any ELA unit on The Diary of Anne Frank...
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Heritage Foundation

The Amendment Process and the Bill of Rights

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Did you know that lawmakers have proposed more than 5,000 bills to amend the US Constitution in Congress? Your class learns intriguing facts about the process of choosing amendments. A variety of activities including before and after...
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Curated OER

Adding and Subtracting Decimals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice adding and subtracting numbers with decimals. In this decimals lesson plan, students use grid paper and money to learn how to add and subtract decimals.
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Curated OER

Adding Decimals with Hundredths

For Teachers 4th - 5th
For this worksheet, students learn to add decimal numbers to the hundredths. Students first compare adding and subtracting decimals with the corresponding fractions in 6 problems. Then students add 35 decimal numbers mentally, filling...
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Curated OER

Get it Straight Mr. Decimal!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work with decimals. In this decimal lesson, students participate in a hands-on group activity that enable them to review to how to appropriately add and subtract decimals.
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Curated OER

Area and Perimeter

For Teachers 10th
Learners find the area and perimeter of regular polygons and composite figures and examine the effect on the area and perimeter of a figure if the dimensions are multiplied by a constant. The nine page worksheet contains thirty-seven...
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Curated OER

Operations with Positive Fractions and Decimals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore the concept of fractions and decimals! In this fractions and decimals instructional activity, pupils use fraction tiles to express fractions. They play a fraction review basketball game where when a team gets a question correct...
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Curated OER

Operations with Decimal Numbers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders demonstrate operations with decimal numbers. In this computation lesson, 6th graders play the game "Diabolical Decimals." The objects of this game is to construct the largest number after rolling a die five times. The...
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Curated OER

Operations with Decimals

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Teach your learners to solve word problems. They will review how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with decimals. Then they solve multiple problems.
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Curated OER

What's the Best Deal?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore number sense by solving consumer math problems. In this pattern identification lesson, students analyze a list of numerical and geometric patterns while predicting the future outcome. Students utilize inference skills to...
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Curated OER

Fossil Fuel Sources, Usage and Alternatives: What Are the Options?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine the relationship between energy and the environment. In groups, they participate in experiments to discover the law of thermodynamics and the differences between potential, kinetic and mechanical forms of energy. They...
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Curated OER

Decimal Fractions of a Set

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice problem solving equations of fractions, ratios and proportions, addition and subtraction stage 6 as well as advanced additive. Emphasis is placed on decimal fractions and then they convert fractions to decimals.
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Curated OER

The Eggonaut

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students build a rocket. In this hands-on rocket activity, students work with classmates to create a rocket out of a 2-liter bottle that will protect a raw egg. The goal is to be the team with the rocket which spent the longest time...
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Curated OER

Places, Places, Everyone

For Teachers 1st
First graders play the game Show Me and use math software to practice place value.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders practice using money in everyday situations. They use their addition and subtraction skills as they work in cooperative groups to solve problems involving decimals.