This site includes two first grade math vocabulary lesson plans: one for measurement terms and time and money, and another for geometry terms

For this unit, young scholars will be taught several techniques for creating tessellations and will respond to their learning in their Math journals.

Why is math important? How does math impact our lives outside of math class? This activity is an introduction to 6th-grade math. Students make connections between math and life while also learning procedures and rules in this 6th-grade...

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.

It is important to go slow to go fast. Students are successful when they have a clear understanding of expectations. At the start of the school year the rules and rituals for the Math Workshop are established through modeling and practice.

This site features a book called "Math Fables, Making Numbers Count" by Greg Tang. Come and check out this interdisciplinary approach to learning to count.

This site contains lessons using Geometer's Sketch Pad for elementary and middle school aged students.

Planning is essential to financial success. In this lesson, students will define the word "budget" and identify the three key components associated with creating a budget, evaluate wants versus needs, and demonstrate an understanding of...

This is a great place to gather ideas for introducing and developing the multiplication properties concepts for commutative, associative, identity, and zero properties. Materials, preparation, prerequisite skills and discourse are all...

In this two-day instructional activity, students will collaborate to create a healthy pizza using only geometric items that have been precisely measured. Students must identify the items as triangle, quadrilateral (parallelogram), or...

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...

A collaboration of elementary level lessons on data management and analysis. Some examples of the topics demonstrated are grids, timelines, and weather.

Two and three-dimensional geometric shape are explored in these exercises. Each activity has teacher notes, activity instructions, and a worksheet when necessary.

This site contains a lesson about ratios and unit rates as well as guided and independent practice for students to review the skills.

This site contains a lesson plan on tessellations. There is a link to the NCTM standards that fit this lesson plan and a link to an applet that is useful to both teacher and student.

Lesson plan which details how to have young scholars determine the distance to an object by sighting it from two different locations and knowing the distance between these locations. As an advanced alternative, trigonometry can be used...

In this lesson, students will identify why having a budget and keeping records of their spending and saving habits helps them make better financial choices.

Why do we use money? Learn why we need money and to identify bills and coins.

What can we do with money? Deciding on the best use of our money requires planning. Students will identify ways that money can be used: spending, saving, and giving.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to recognize and apply the concepts of mean, median, and mode in real-life problems.

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify and apply the properties of lines and angles and understand the concept of parallel, perpendicular, complementary and supplementary angles, vertical angles, and parallel lines...

Skittles - yum!! You will instantly have your student's attention when you teach about arrays using Skittles. This detailed lesson walks you through the steps, provides worksheets for varying math levels, and includes a video of the...

This hands-on multidisciplinary activity, combines math and social studies. Students will discover how 18th Century fashion, and culture impacted Colonial Life.

Quadrilaterals-parallelograms, rectangles, and trapezoids-are thoroughly introduced in this lesson plan for upper elementary and middle school students. Lots of resources are linked to it to help support the teacher and students....