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Ordinal Numbers Riddle

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create a riddle that resembles a real life situation using ordinal numbers. In this ordinal numbers lesson plan, students come up with clues and brainstorm how they could use ordinal numbers as a class.
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Arizona State University

Roundup Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Let's study 2-D shapes! Young mathematicians compare and classify shapes according to attributes. They evaluate shape riddles and predict the shape being described. Here is the website where you can find the...
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Education World

Number Gumshoe

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this mystery numbers game worksheet, learners use the 15 clues as well as their multiplication and division skills to solve 15 math riddles.
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Fractions and Panes

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students recognize the fractional values of window panes as part of the whole window. In this window panes lesson plan, students listen to a story about window panes and sing a song. Students look at pictures of windows and write...
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Mystery Number

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore numbers 1-100.  In this cross curriculum literacy and numeration instructional activity, students listen to the book More or Less by Stuart J. Murphy. Students play a game with a partner in which they guess the "mystery...
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Making a Multiplication Lesson Matter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teaching students about multiplication can be made a little easier with lessons that will peak their interest.
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Celebrating the Universal Language of Numbers

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Math games and activities spark the imagination while building crucial skills.
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Math/Technology: Measuring Objects

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create Powerpoint templates of pictures they have taken. Using both standard and metrric measurement units, they describe what units of measurement they would use for each object. In the computer lab, they work in pairs to...
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Multiplication

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover a connection between numbers of things in groups and groups. They solve number line puzzles for multiplications and identify data for 3 riddles in a multiplication context. They use number lines as sources for...
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A World of Symmetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify lines of symmetry.  In this symmetry instructional activity, students create objects and identify their lines of symmetry.  They answer questions about lines of symmetry.  Students cut shapes out of cookie dough and...
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How Do You Like Your Eggs?

For Teachers 1st
First graders conduct a poll about how people like their eggs. In this graphing lesson plan, 1st graders collect data about how they like their eggs. Students use a picture of themselves to place under the type of egg they like. Students...
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The Billy Goats Gruff and the Days of the Week

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the days of the week.  In this days of the week instructional activity, 1st graders listen to the story The Billy Goats Gruff, then act out the events by stepping on "rocks" that name the days of the week.  Students...
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"The Grapes of Math" by Gregg Tang

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice mental addition and use the associative and commutative properties of addition to solve problems.
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Comparing Two Digit Numbers Using Symbols

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders compare two digit numbers. In this comparing numbers lesson, 2nd graders discover greater than and less than symbols. Students read Five Little Monkeys Sitting In A Tree and use the story as a model for comparing numbers....
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NTTI

I'll Halve S'more Please!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There is a lot to learn about fractions, and this is a fun way to do it! Individuals participate in a Cyberchase activity to describe a fraction in terms of sharing parts of a whole. They determine the meaning of the parts of a fraction,...
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Inequalities

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the concept of inequalities and how to solve them in the realm of integers. The instructor would benefit from using a number line and reviewing integers before using this lesson.
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Plane Figures

For Students 4th - 5th
In this plane figure worksheet, students solve a total of 6 riddle problems related to identifying polygons using given information.
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Knock Knock Multiplication

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen to a story about multiplication and play a multiplication game with counters. In this multiplication lesson plan, 5th graders review all four operations and practice multiplication problems.
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Living in a Geometrical World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a series of hand-on, online, and multimedia activities to examine 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes. They describe common geometric solids. They construct rectangular prisms using straws and ribbon.
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Egyptian Puzzles

For Students 5th - 6th
A great way to make a lesson interdisciplinary, these thirteen math word problems are all Egyptian-themed, allowing you to cross your social studies unit with a set of math skills. Note that a few questions from the first page are...
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Expressions of Appalachian Mountain Folk

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, learners plot the coordinates and then unscramble a code in order to decipher a riddle about the expressions used in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Two of Everything

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils listen to story Two of Everything, illustrate coins they would put into the Magic Pot using paper and pencil, and solve Magic Pot riddles by viewing slide show and predicting coin totals. Students then create table listing...
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What Number Am I?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this number riddles worksheet, students read 6 word puzzles that will give students clues to determine the mystery number. Students write the number on the line.
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The Circle's Measure

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore circumference and diameter. For this math lesson, students apply their knowledge of circumference and diameter to solve mathematical riddles. Students apply this knowledge to find circumference and diameter of various...