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Plunge Into Place Value

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use expanded notation. In this mathematics lesson, students determine the place value of a digit within a whole number. Students use manipulatives, words, and symbols to represent whole numbers.
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Ones and Tens

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify the relationship between ones and tens in place value. They use place value mats and straws to identify tens and ones and group the ones to represent tens. After writing and discussing the numbers 10 and 20 they...
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Place Value

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review place value by arranging four numbers to make the highest number possible. They are shown a hundred flat. Students are asked to show another way of making 100 using base-ten blcoks. They are then shown a thousands...
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Place Value to 1,000

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the concept of place value with hundreds, tens, and ones. In the place value lesson, 2nd graders demonstrate their prior knowledge of place value with tens and ones. Students are then introduced to place value with...
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Place Value

For Students 6th - 8th
In this place value learning exercise, students read words less than one and write the decimal value in standard form. They write the meaning of the word. There are twelve problems on this one-page learning exercise.
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Two-Digit Subtraction With and Without Regrouping

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders subtract two-digit numbers. In this mathematics lesson, 2nd graders subtract both with and without regrouping. Students use manipulatives and place value mats to assist in problem solving.
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Number Sense

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice rounding 4 digit numbers using place value concepts. In this estimating sums and differences lesson plan, 1st graders explore clustering, rounding, and front end estimation as methods for rounding decimals.
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Building Numbers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use place value clues to find a given number. In this place value lesson plan, 5th graders work with the MathKeys program using place value clues and base-ten blocks to build a number and determine its value.
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Who Needs Numbers?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify whole numbers through the one millions place. For this place value lesson, students read the book The Day Without Math and use place value mats to create numbers to the millions place. Students use base ten blocks...
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Comparing Two Digit Numbers Using Symbols

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders compare two digit numbers. In this comparing numbers instructional activity, 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...
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Just One!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners play a trading game using Base 10 blocks that incorporates decimal place value. Then they each receive a paper with a decimal number on it and must arrange themselves in a line from least to greatest.
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Education World

Counting with Marshmallows and Licorice

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Here's a tasty lesson on place value! Learners practice counting by ones and tens using mini-marshmallows and licorice sticks. They count and add the mini-marshmallows, and use the licorice sticks to represents tens.
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Arithmetic Algorithms

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students solve a variety of arithmetic algorithms. Students use multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction skills to solve the problems.
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Making Cents of Fractions and Decimals

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore decimals and fractions using groups of 100 pennies. By classifying the pennies in different ways, there are an unlimited number of ways to learn fractions, decimals, and place value in money. This is a good, hands-on...
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Money Matters

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make fair trades and exchanges of their money in order to have practical experiences with the essential "rules" of our place value system. They create groupings of tens, hundreds, thousands using play money and place value...
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Converting Fractions to Hundredths (B)

For Students 5th - 6th
In this converting fractions instructional activity, students study the given fraction and express the fraction in hundredths value place. Students then express the fraction in decimal hundredths. Students solve 21 problems.
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Cuisenaire Mats

For Teachers 1st
First graders use Cuisenaire rods to study the mathematical symbols =, <, > for the relationships is equal to, is less than, and is greater than. They use the rods to show visual explanations of common number combinations.
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Money Math Carnival

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore money in a carnival format. In this money lesson, 3rd graders create a carnival of mathematics activities. Students determine the value of money in mixed amounts and explore how to create representations of money.
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Exploring Teen Numbers

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore place value.  In this numeration instructional activity, students use ten frames to represent numbers greater than ten.  Students read two digit numerals and build the corresponding number using counters and ten frames. ...
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Further Investigating Greater Than, Less Than, and Equal to

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students investigate number relationships such as greater than, less than, and equal to. In this number relationship lesson plan, students use number mats and a fish with a large, open mouth to practice showing number relationships.
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Gymnastic Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars use gymnastics beams, benches, mats, and wedges to practice gymnastics skills. In this gymnastics lesson plan, students practice balancing, tumbling, and jumping skills.
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Make Your Fortune in Stocks

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a stock investment activity in which they research stocks to place in an imaginary portfolio. They invest $10,000 in a variety of stocks and track their progress using the Internet or newspapers.
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Worksheet
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Converting Fractions to Hundredths (A)

For Students 5th - 6th
In this converting fractions worksheet, students study each fraction and convert the fraction to show hundredths value place. Students then express the fraction as a decimal in hundredths place. Students solve 21 problems.
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Diane Venzera

Kwanzaa Celebration: Celebrating Family, Community, and Culture

For Teachers K - 3rd
Kwanzaa is the focus of a three-part lesson plan that celebrates the history and traditions of the holiday. Before lighting the Kinara, scholars listen to a read-aloud of Seven Candles of Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Learners express...