Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Grouping and Grazing

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game that reviews grouping in fives and tens, and adding and subtracting. The instuctions are clear and include a video of how to play.
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Other

Dan's Math: Basic Skills Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
College professor Dan Bach offers a review of various basic topics in arithmetic, pre-algebra, and algebra. Order of operations, exponents, square roots, variables, and combining terms are just a few of the many topics covered.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Math Centers Sorting

For Teachers K Standards
In order to pull small groups during math instruction, the rest of the students need engaging activities that they can complete independently. These simple sorting activities help students learn the procedures for completing math centers.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Suzanne Alejandre: Pirate Diamond Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An interesting small-group activity that will engage students in problem solving, reasoning, and communicating their mathematical thoughts with eachother. The materials needed for the project and the steps the teacher should assist the...
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Elementary Level Problems 1999

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pre-service Faculty of Education students from the University of Regina created this collection of real-world math problems that address Saskatchewan elementary mathematics content. The problems are geared towards students in grades four...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Can Shapes Be

For Teachers K - 1st
This is a hands-on lesson that will help students explore shapes in their environment. Students will work in diverse groups to complete this activity. Students will make a class book of their findings.This lesson plan was created as a...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Finding Equal Groups

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This activity will test how quickly young scholars can count objects. The teacher will assemble a variety of groups of objects in a few different forms (examples included). Students will race against the clock to sort the groups of...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Compare Numbers of Objects 1

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice counting which group has more objects. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Fast Can You Go?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students will experience force and speed by constructing model cars in cooperative groups. The students will explore ways to move their cars at different speeds. Each group will do a PhotoStory describing their cars.This lesson plan was...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Density is the ratio of mass to volume. Density will be introduced to students by a demonstration of coke verses diet coke. The teacher will then solve density problems for the students on the board. The class will then complete a lab on...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gas Laws

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The teacher will perform a demonstration of imploding a coke can. We will then discuss Boyle's law. After this discussion, we will conduct the science in motion lab "Boyle's Law". Each lab group will load their graphical results into a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wired for Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
As part of a unit on electrical circuits, students will work in collaborative groups to create a video of how to construct parallel and series circuits. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Genetic Babies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will explore Gregor Mendel's laws of genetics in this instructional activity. Students will be paired in male and female groups. If girls and boys can't be evenly divided, same sex students can be paired to represent research...
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Pennies a Little Goes a Long Way Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Use this fun learning game in your classroom to help students understand the value of money. Groups of students will be exchanging pennies for other types of coins.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Counting Collections: 100 Objects

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders work to count to 100 in this rigorous counting activity. Students create a shape out of their 100 objects for a creative twist. This lesson contains a detailed plan, video explanation, discussion questions based on ability...
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BBC

Bbc: Algebra Revision Bite Solving Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
BBC Schools offers a test review ("revision") of several aspects of solving equations. Content includes solving simple equations, solving equations with brackets, simplifying letters in equations, plus much more. After working through...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Looking at the Similarities and Differences

For Teachers 1st Standards
La, La, La, La, La, sing a happy song! You will be signing like a Smurf as students use their new founded knowledge of shape characteristics to participate in a whole group discussion and to successfully participate in geometric learning.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Goody Bags

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will practice counting with this small group activity - great for math stations! The teacher will pre-fill goodie bags with counting objects. Students count the objects, record the number on the post-it note and stick the...