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Ordinal Numbers Riddle
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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Roundup Shapes
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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Number Gumshoe
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
Students recognize the fractional values of window panes as part of the whole window. In this window panes lesson, students listen to a story about window panes and sing a song. Students look at pictures of windows and write fractions...
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Mystery Number
Young scholars explore numbers 1-100. In this cross curriculum literacy and numeration lesson, students listen to the book More or Less by Stuart J. Murphy. Young scholars play a game with a partner in which they guess the "mystery...
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Making a Multiplication Lesson Matter
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
Math games and activities spark the imagination while building crucial skills.
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Math/Technology: Measuring Objects
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
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
Middle schoolers identify lines of symmetry. In this symmetry lesson, students create objects and identify their lines of symmetry. They answer questions about lines of symmetry. Middle schoolers cut shapes out of cookie dough and...
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How Do You Like Your Eggs?
First graders conduct a poll about how people like their eggs. In this graphing instructional activity, 1st graders collect data about how they like their eggs. Students use a picture of themselves to place under the type of egg they...
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The Billy Goats Gruff and the Days of the Week
First graders explore the days of the week. In this days of the week lesson, 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 must go in the...
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"The Grapes of Math" by Gregg Tang
Learners 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
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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I'll Halve S'more Please!
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
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
In this plane figure activity, students solve a total of 6 riddle problems related to identifying polygons using given information.
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Knock Knock Multiplication
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
Learners 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
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
In this math worksheet, students 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
Students 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?
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
Pupils explore circumference and diameter. In this math lesson, students apply their knowledge of circumference and diameter to solve mathematical riddles. Pupils apply this knowledge to find circumference and diameter of various objects.