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Money Math Carnival
Third graders explore money in a carnival format. In this money lesson, 3rd graders create a carnival of mathematics activities. Students determine the value of money in mixed amounts and explore how to create representations of money.
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Remove One
With a set of 15 chips and a number line, learners predict what sums may occur with the rolling of two dice. When their sum comes up, they remove one of the chips from their number line with the objective of being the first to remove...
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Grab the Candy Hearts
For this candy activity, learners play the game Grab the Candy for Valentine's Day where they roll dice to find ordered pairs on a graph and place the candy inside that square. Students play until all candy is gone and use the scoring...
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Reinforcement Lesson in Place Value
Here is a wonderful place value game for your pupils that is played with dice. Very clear instructions on how the game is played are included in the plan. According to the author, they will "groan in disapproval" when it's time to stop...
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Quarter Combos
Review money with this motivating activity. Using a simple game, learners practice adding up coins to total $.25. This activity comes with worksheets that could be used to cement students' knowledge of this topic.
Illustrative Mathematics
Biggest Number Wins
Engage your mathematicians with this simple number-quantity game. Working in pairs, using two decks of 44 cards numbered 0-10 with corresponding sets of objects or images, young learners will each flip a card and decide which number is...
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How Many Buttons
Help learners explore the concepts of more than, less than, and equal to. They participate in a button attribute activity, play a game using buttons and a die, draw the sets of buttons in their journal, and play button bingo.
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Lotto or Life: What Are the Chances?
Though the website does not seem to have the mentioned video, a reding and lottery style games simulate the chances of finding intelligent life somewhere other than Earth. Without the video, this lesson is short, but it can be a useful...
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Data and Probability- What's the Chance?
Young scholars investigate probability through a game. In this data lesson, students use dice and predictions to explore how probability works.
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Probability Lesson Plan
Your learners will examine probability through experiments and dice games. Using a computer, your class will perform simple experiments to collect and analyze data to determine the probability of different experimental results. Students...
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Acting Like a Hog
Students explore game theory. In this secondary mathematics lesson, students investigate the playing of a game called Hog which involves rolling dice. Students explore many different scenarios as they consider the best strategy and the...
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Challenge: Five in a Row with Decimal Numbers
In this multiplication worksheet, students play a game with 2 number cubes or dice where they substitute decimals for the numbers on the cubes. Students multiply the decimals together then find the corresponding product on a 5 by 5 game...
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Counting on Cup
A basic approach to counting on, this math game has beginners partner up and use number cards and dice as they practice beginning addition. One partner chooses a number card and counts that many objects into a cup. The second partner...
Shodor Education Foundation
Introduction to the Concept of Probability
Acquaint mathematicians to the concept of probability with a discussion about the results of a game. Then have them play a dice, card, spinner, or coin game and recording the number of wins vs. the number of tries on an interactive web...
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Richard's Dice
Young scholars problem solve logic problems. They complete a worksheet using dice as a manipulative. They decide on a problem solving strategy, solve the problem, and write up the solution.
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Lara's Equiprobable Dice
Students try some new exercises involving probability. These are, first of all, that the probability of getting a given total when two dice are rolled is equal to the number of possible ways of getting that total, divided by 36 (the...
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"24" Game
Students use four digits obtained from rolling four dice to create a mathematical expression equal to 24.
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Common Multiples
Fourth graders identify common multiples of numbers to 10. They take turns to throw the two dice. Students after each throw they find the common multiples of these numbers. They cover these numbers with counters. Students each has...
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The Apple Blossom Problem
In this apple blossom problem, students examine a given situation in a board game. They determine the best way to win the game and the expected payoff. This one-page worksheet contains 1 problem.
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Probability- Based Bingo Lesson Plan
Statisticians play a game of Bingo to discover the meaning of probability. They are given 12 markers to distribute across the numbers 1-12 on their playing mat. As a pair of dice is rolled, markers are removed from the playing mat. The...
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Multiplication Football
Third graders write out the multiplication facts of six; repeating them aloud. They then play a makeshift football game. They draw the field on construction paper and use figurines to represent players. They roll the dice to determine...
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Meba Math (K-1)
Students work with counters and math mats to demonstrate number concepts. In this number concept instructional activity, students use cubes and configuration cards to show more or less than given numbers.
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Penny, Nickel, Dime
In this money worksheet, learners play a game with a pair of dice involving the arithmetic operations of addition and subtraction. Students interact with pennies, nickels and dimes.
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Math + Fitness = FUN
Learners play a game wherein they role 2 dice and calculate either the sum, difference or product of the numbers and the answer is the number of exercises they do. They change stations to do different exercises or skills.