Curated OER
"Reviewing Facts Through 10" Lesson Plan
Explore the joy of math with you little learners! They practice creating math problems with numbers from a fact family using numbers 1-10. They work independently with a set of connecting cubes to aid them in creating number sentences...
Kentucky Educational Television
The Road to Proportional Reasoning
Just how big would it really be? Young mathematicians determine if different toys are proportional and if their scale is accurate. They solve problems relating scale along with volume and surface area using manipulatives. The last day of...
National Security Agency
Equations and Expressions
Learners demonstrate their knowledge pictorially, concretely, and abstractly in this unit meant to last three hours over three days. Using hands-on activities, manipulatives, real-world applications, and problem solving, learners write...
Curated OER
Finding the Area of Shapes
In this area of shapes unit, upper graders participate in hands-on problem solving activities to find the formulas for the area of a parallelogram, a triangle, and a trapezoid. They manipulate the geoboard to explore relationships among...
Curated OER
The Pythagorean Puzzle
An engaging hands-on activity is presented. Learners of all ages are addressed in thie unique plan. K-5 learners identify, name, and define a rectangle, square, triangle, and the concept of area. Older learners prove the Pythagorean...
Curated OER
Subtraction with Regrouping Lesson Plan
Learners explore regrouping while subtracting. In this subtraction lesson, pupils manipulate base 10 blocks to demonstrate regrouping. Multiple resources are provided.
Exploratorium
String Shapes
You'd never have guessed it, but simple pieces of string make a fabulous manipulative for the study of geometry! In the fine lesson here, young mathematicians use string to make a variety of polygons. Pupils sit in various configurations...
Curated OER
Identify and Label Different Types of Angles
Learners identify and label acute, obtuse, and right angles within a picture. Using Kid Pix software and digital photos, they manipulate, identify, and label the angles and describe the angles to a classmate.
Curated OER
Multiplication Strategies - A Day at the Zoo
This is an amazing 33-page resource for teaching multiplication! Your mathematicians will discover the connection between multiplication and repeated addition. They also will work collaboratively with arrays while studying zoo animals....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Place Value Party
Help your young mathematicians master three-digit place value with a hands-on activity that builds on their social orientation. They create a place value house from construction paper and sort "number friends" according to which house...
Curated OER
Comparing Sets
Kindergarteners and first graders work with Reese's Pieces to explain comparing sets, create comparison sets, and compare sets of numbers and objects. A good lesson that uses a "tasty" manipulative!
Curated OER
Defining Division
Upper graders explore division through fair-shares. They will review fair shares and fractions as a segway into division. They start by playing "Share Fairly" game and create mathematical arguments for solving problems. Manipulatives and...
CK-12 Foundation
Whole Number Division: Pancakes
Given 13 pancakes and five plates, learners are asked to distribute the pancakes evenly among the plates. Is it possible? Will there be any remainders? These are the questions pupils are asked to answer after manipulating an interactive...
Curriculum Corner
Curriculum Framework Forms
Sketch out weekly plans for reading, writing, math, and small group instruction, noting standards that will be addressed, materials to be used, and the lesson focus, on a one-page form. A great way to see the week at a glance. Eight...
Virginia Department of Education
Equations
Science equipment can be handy for math class, too. Scholars learn to solve one- and two-step linear equations by using the concept of a balance. They solve real-world problems in a variety of contexts by writing and solving linear...
Curated OER
Incredible Equations - Math Calendar Activity
Students review math facts and create their own math problems using the numbers in the current date. They demonstrate the problems using various manipulatives.
Curated OER
Atlatl Lessons for Grade 4
Fourth graders explore the weapons of the Aboriginal people. In this fourth grade math lesson, 4th graders create charts, tables, or diagrams to represent patterns and relations. Students investigate which dart length has the best...
Curated OER
1st Grade Math: Greater Than, Less Than
First graders participate in a variety of math activities that emphasize the concepts of greater than, less than, and equal to. They order numbers on the number line, compare numbers, create letters using numbers on a 1-100 number chart,...
Curated OER
Pop-A-Top Math Game
Students play pop-a-top math game to practice solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
Curated OER
Alien Math
First graders identify combinations and patterns in this lesson. They manipulate an alien picture with 10 arms - 5 red and 5 blue. They use an individual alien picture to identify as many combinations as possible. Students compare...
Inside Mathematics
Hexagons
Scholars find a pattern from a geometric sequence and write the formula for extending it. The worksheet includes a table to complete plus four analysis questions. It concludes with instructional implications for the teacher.
Inside Mathematics
Vencent's Graphs
I like algebra, but graphing is where I draw the line! Worksheet includes three multiple-part questions on interpreting and drawing line graphs. It focuses on the abstract where neither axis has numbers written in, though both are...
Noyce Foundation
Boxes
Teach your class to think outside the box. Scholars use the concept of equality to solve a problem in the assessment task. They determine how to use a scale to identify the one box out of a set of nine boxes that is heavier than the others.
EngageNY
Three-Dimensional Space
How do 2-D properties relate in 3-D? Lead the class in a discussion on how to draw and see relationships of lines and planes in three dimensions. The ability to see these relationships is critical to the further study of volume and other...