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Reading to Calculate

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners explore uses of the calculator. They explore using reading strategies to solve problems. Students recognize when calculators are useful. They construct real life situations for calculator use.
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Addition Practice - Activity

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders play a number strategy and addition game.
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Words, Words, Words

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders choose estimation strategies in real-world problem situations and explain the choice. They work in groups of five using three different estimation methods to find out how many words are on a page of text.
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Chart Trivia

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice addition and subtraction problems and answer questions using greater than and less than. They chart information to create a graph on the computer.
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The 500 Problem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explain face, place and total value of numbers as well as solve three-digit subtraction problems. Before trying answer the problem Students must be able to examine that the same digit is used to represent different amounts.
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Gremlins

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate the missing numbers on an equation chart in order to practice their addition and subtraction skills. They work with sums up to twenty and use up to twenty objects to work with subtraction equations. They listen...
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Conversions That Make Cents

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice calculating problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They estimate solutions to algebraic problems. They also graph their solutions.
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This is to That

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students look at ratio, what it means for numbers or objects to be in a given ratio, and how ratios and fractions are related. They write and solve story problems which involve whole numbers, using addition, subtraction, multiplication,...
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How Many Strips?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the measurement of 1 meter. They predict and measure how many strips of paper it takes to make exactly one meter. Students devise and use problem solving strategies to solve the problem.
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Decimals Multiplying

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students multiply the values that are using decimals. They pay special attention to the place values for the decimals.
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Vectors Via the Calculator

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders resolve vector problems without the knowledge of math.  In this vectors lesson students with poor math skills get a chance of passing the course. 
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Patterns, Relations And Functions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe patterns and determine a mathematical function that creates the pattern. Through a demonstration by the teacher, they observe strategies such as multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction to use when...
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Shopping

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students give change for sums of money. They also solve subtraction problems presented in different forms. The problem Students answer takes a look at a situation from three different perspectives.
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Using 10 to Subtract

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this using ten to subtract worksheet, students, with a partner, problem solve and calculate together the answers to five subtraction word problems.
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Equality For All

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students complete worksheets on equality in math and create their own. They further investigate equality in the world around them.
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Lollies!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are shown 4 lollipops and asked to tell you all the ways they could share them between 2 students; understanding the difference between sharing and sharing evenly. They read the math problem and share solutions.
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Robots

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically (guess and check, make a drawing, use equipment). The use of logical reasoning is a focus of this lesson.
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Making Rectangles

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students study rectangles. In this math lesson, students use numbers, measurements and geometry to draw rectangles of varying sizes.
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Who Has More?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars engage in a lesson that is concerned with the standard of comparing the quantities of whole numbers using different strategies from the concrete to the abstract. They count objects and compare them, use symbols of...
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Fractions and Fact Families: Jump Kangaroo Jump!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice with fractions and fact families. For this fractions and fact families lesson, 2nd graders participate in a series of activities to assist them with understanding fractions.  Activities include graphing,...
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Patterns, Relations, and Functions

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students investigate the patterns of different data sets of numbers. They use critical thinking skills in order to find the missing numbers in any given set. This lesson helps to develop the skill of number sense.
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Two-Digit Addition With Regrouping

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice two-digit addition with regrouping. In this addition lesson, 2nd graders use craft sticks to solve two-digit regrouping problems. Students solve problems on the chalkboard.
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Number Tick Tack Toe:

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice basic addition and subtration facts to twelve and use thinking skills to win at tick tack toe.
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Reteach: Guess and Check

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this guess and check worksheet, students record guesses to a word problem by recording them in a table. Next, students use guess and check to solve 3 additional problems. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.