Curated OER
Adding Tens
Second graders explore and discuss adding 10 as they predict number patterns with the hundred chart. They work in pairs, groups choose a number, 1-9, and predict what happens if they add 10 to the number. Students make-a-ten strategy...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20
First graders act out number stories from number cards. In order to learn about addition and subtraction up to 20 instructional activity, learners become the manipulatives and line up to show the number stories.
Curated OER
Call it "Macaroni"
Who knew there were so many fun educational opportunities featuring pasta? Scholars read a brief informational text about the history of pasta (note that "macaroni" is spelled two different ways, so address this if kids are reading...
Illustrative Mathematics
Building toward fluency
Here is a great learning task that focuses on the development of areas in computational fluency including strategies in mental math. Young learners are guided through a list of addition expressions that help them visually understand the...
Novelinks
The Color of Water: Concept Analysis
Considering using James McBride's autobiography/memoir The Color of Water with your class? Check out this seven-page informational packet that includes background information on McBride, the organization pattern of the book, and issues...
Curated OER
Magic Math Morning Work
In this fact families worksheet, students solve 10 problems in which single digits are added with sums to ten. Students then check each problem using subtraction.
Illustrative Mathematics
Equality Number Sentences
Understanding the concept of equality is fundamental to the success of young mathematicians. To explore this basic idea, children compare the dots arranged in pairs of rectangles in order to determine whether or not they contain an equal...
Curated OER
Family Names
In this fact family worksheet, students examine a blank math cube with 10 squares. Students color some cubes red and some blue, then write a fact family for the numbers.
Curated OER
Addition and Subtraction Facts To 20
First graders use manipulatives, flash cards, number sentences and story problems to practice their addition and subtraction facts to twenty.
Curated OER
Multiplication Facts for 2, 5, and 10
Students improve their multiplication skills by completing the multiplication equations for facts 2, 5, and 10. In this multiplication facts lesson, students use different colored markers to mark on a number line and skip count by 2s....
Curated OER
Fact Families
For this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders create a fact family that uses specific numbers given. Then they draw eight circles, add five more, and write the fact out in a problem.
Curated OER
The Squares of Numbers in Multiplication
Students make multiplication squares. In this math lesson, students review their multiplication facts and multiplication strategies. Students are introduced to multiplication squares when multiplying a number by itself.
Curated OER
Finding Addition Patterns
Students practice finding the sums of two-one digit numbers. In this addition lesson plan, students also record facts onto an addition chart.
Curated OER
Addition and Subtraction Challenge
In this addition and subtraction practice worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to sove 19 problems that require them to fill in the blanks in 19 number sentences.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Let's Learn Those Facts: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Learners participate in an adding game. For this adding numbers lesson, students calculate the sum of the dice and remove a number from their activity sheet. Learners who first removes the numbers is the winner.
Curated OER
Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Practice basic operations for young mathematicians in fun ways! Using two decks of cards (Ace through 10 plus the joker), learners play "memory" by matching numbers that can be added to make 10 and writing number sentences. In another...
World Wildlife Fund
Take 6
Investigate the various properties of the number six with this elementary math lesson. From simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems to the creation of hexagonal tessellations, this lesson covers all aspects of...
Concord Consortium
Last Digit Arithmetic
Mathematics involves a study of patterns. The exploratory lesson has learners consider the addition pattern in different sets of numbers. Each set has a different pattern that pupils describe mathematically. The patterns involve both...
Concord Consortium
Boards I
Learners create patterns in a table to mimic the function of an electronic spreadsheet. The result is a table that creates an addition table for decimals in intervals of one-tenth. While creating the pattern, pupils must thoroughly...
THUP Games
Monkey Math School Sunshine
Hang out at the beach and listen to some relaxing tunes, all while developing basic math skills. An endless source of fun and learning for young children!
PE Central
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with Dance
Erin go bragh! Enliven your St. Patrick's Day celebration by teaching your class members some of the combinations found in traditional Irish step dancing.
DK Publishing
Fishing for 10
Young counters will enjoy this beginning addition activity; they get to color as they go! For each set of 10 fish they color some green and leave some white. Then, they fill in the blanks to create an addition sentence with the sum of...
DK Publishing
Learning 7 - Write the Number
Encourage number confidence by focusing on one number at a time; young counters examine the number seven, starting by tracing the numeral three times and printing a few more on their own. Next, they count three sets of flowers in an...
Curated OER
Family of Four
In this fact family worksheet, students write in the missing numbers in the addition problems. They then complete each fact family. There are 6 problems on this worksheet.