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Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 1: Money Basics

For Teachers K - 1st
Why do we use money? Learn why we need money and to identify bills and coins.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 2: Money Planning

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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Better Lesson: Building Shapes Review of 2 D Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What do students love more than building? Building with marshmallows! In this lesson, students get to build shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. Included are an extensive lesson plan, a video showing examples, a worksheet, and ideas...
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Better Lesson: Ways to Make 10 a Lesson on Decomposing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will learn what it means to represent a number in different ways and will begin to explore decomposing numbers. Included is a detailed lesson plan, link to an online game, worksheet, center ideas, and a "Ways to Make 10" chart.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans Math Vocabulary 1st Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This site includes two first grade math vocabulary lesson plans: one for measurement terms and time and money, and another for geometry terms
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US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math on the Go

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Parents and children explore math in the world around them in this collection of math activities. Simple, engaging, and fun, these lessons offer learners the opportunity to discover math even when they're "on the go." An excellent...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life

For Students K - 1st
Read about what math has to do with cooking, chances of winning a game, even decorating your home. Teachers may want to peruse this site for ideas about real world applications in their lesson planning.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Everyday Math

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Young scholars will work as a class to solve word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions. To culminate the lesson, students will create their own word problems.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Making Numbers Count/ Math Fables

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Better Lesson: What Are Our Norms for How We Listen?

For Teachers 1st Standards
This lesson helps build a strong culture of problem solvers, and it can work as an introduction in 1st grade or as a Kindergarten lesson!
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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 plan contains a detailed plan, video explanation, discussion questions based on...
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Better Lesson: What Is the Action of the Problem?

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders work towards CCSS.MP1: Make sense of and persevere through problems with this introductory lesson. Students learn to visualize what is happening in the problem.
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Better Lesson: Our Own Surveys

For Teachers 1st Standards
Operation Independence! Students will now take what they have learned from previous data lessons and put it into action. The students will work in pairs of two to decide on a survey question and then collects classmates' responses to...
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Better Lesson: What Is Today?

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT identify the name of the month, number of the day, and number of the year on a calendar. SWBAT explore math tools, and will demonstrate their ability to count 20 objects.
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AAA Math

Aaa Math: Adding Two Digit Numbers

For Students K - 1st Standards
This lesson has an explanation for adding two-digit numbers using paper and pencil. There is also a game to practice your skills. The game gives you a percent score of your correct answers, as well as running totals of your correct and...
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AAA Math

Aaa Math: Counting by Tens

For Students K - 1st Standards
This lesson is about counting by tens from AAAmath.com. There are separate sections for learning, practice, playing a game, and exploring more about skip counting.
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Other

Nz Maths Measurement Lesson Plan: Spoonfuls, Cupfuls, and Handfuls

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This New Zealand Measurement lesson plan offers an excellent opportunity for young students to explore, in a hands-on context, the concept of volume using non-standard units. There is also a Home Link available to send home for parents...
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Better Lesson: Building Towers

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT count a set of up to 20 objects by 1's. SWBAT use number names and written numbers to label the quantities they represent. SWBAT order a set of numbers and quantities up to 12.
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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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Better Lesson: Introducing Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 1st Standards
A big word for a big idea! After being introduced to the term quadrilateral, the students will learn the characteristics of them and have an opportunity to create various quadrilaterals.
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Better Lesson: Talking About Triangles

For Teachers 1st Standards
Let's talk about shapes baby. Let's talk about vertices. Leeettsss talk about all the things that triangles need to be, Oh let's talk abbbooouuut shapes! It's not Salt N Peppa but you can get your groove on with today's triangle talk.
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Better Lesson: Chrysanthemum: Shorter and Longer Names

For Teachers 1st Standards
To introduce these terms, 1st graders get to learn a little mouse with a LONG name! After reading Chrysanthemum, students look at how long all of their names are and use the terms, "shorter, equal to and longer than" to compare the lengths.
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Better Lesson: Assessment of Triangles

For Teachers 1st Standards
What better way to get to know your students than with a 1:1 interview. Today you will interview each student on their knowledge of triangles and their ability to separate them from other shapes.
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Better Lesson: Heading Back

For Teachers 1st Standards
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Now Stop and Turn It Around! That is the idea today as the students are introduced to the idea of counting back to 1.

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