Drive home math concepts with an engaging task. Learners follow a verbal description to fill in a table and create a distance-time graph representing a car journey. They then answer questions by interpreting the graph.

A real-world approach to common multiples asks learners to find different groups of flowers based on their multiples. Useable as a class activity or independent exercise, they will have to organize their thoughts to explain the totals of...

First graders represent, compare, and order numbers. In this counting skills lesson, 1st graders use manipulatives to demonstrate one-to-one correspondence and to represent numbers. This lesson includes a teacher script to guide the lesson.

Simulate chariots and driver and practice rounding numbers with your class. In teams of three, they race to the finish line where the teachers asks the chariot driver to round a certain number. They take turns being the driver.

Ddefine the relationships between fractions, decimals, and percentages in a series of lessons. The class practices converting between these three versions of a number. They also find the common factor of a numerator and denominator and...

First graders research strategies for identifying numbers through 100. In this number recognition lesson, 1st graders make games, create puzzles,and fill in missing numbers to practice number identification.

Fifth graders explore common factors. In this factorization lesson, 5th graders discover the greatest common factor among two numbers in a game format. Students build on previous knowledge to determine the greatest common factor.

Students complete activities to explore number sequence. In this number arrangements instructional activity, students play a game of finger flash and then read the book 12 Ways to Get to 11. Students count and track the amounts in the...

For this real-world example, algebra learners start to get a sense of how to represent the relationship between two variables in different ways. They start by looking at a partial table of values that define a linear relationship. They...

Students read a story and write math problems.  In this reading and math comprehension lesson plan, students preview and read the book "One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab".  Students predict ways to get a sum of 11, write math...

In this place value worksheet, students write down the value of the number underlined in the larger numbers. For example, 390 945 will be provided and students write down 40. They then use a calculator to solve addition and subtraction...

In this words to numbers worksheet, students write the numbers that are given to them in words for 6 digit numbers. Students complete 10 problems.

Students watch an episode of JoJo's Circus on the Disney Channel. While viewing, they note how many things they see represented by the number 100. As a class, they practice counting numbers by tens and end the lesson by dancing to music.

Sixth graders identify prime and composite numbers and complete an activity problem. Given a 100 chart, they follow directions to create a prime number chart. In groups, 6th graders play a "Prime Take Away" activity to reinforce prime...

In this representing whole numbers and decimals practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.

Students explore the concept of "regrouping." In this 2-digit addition with regrouping lesson plan, students create visual representations of combinations that equal ten using a tens frame. Students use manipulatives to represent the...

Second graders engage in a lesson which focuses on adding two-digit numbers and the regrouping process. They identify when the regrouping process is necessary and make appropriate "trades" to complete an addition problem.

Do you know how much of one activity that you did ALL day? Through addition, your learners will determine how much dancing and how much basketball Morgan and Anna did over the course of one day. They will have to create a number sentence...

Students use decimals, fractions, and percents to solve problems in a real world setting.

While just a quick review of different ways to write a number, this could be enhanced to provide a richer exploration. Using a couple of examples, the teacher walks learners through the process of identifying and expressing numbers.  

Fifth and sixth graders compare decimals to the place-value structure in the base-ten number system. They represent fractions as parts of unit wholes, as parts of a set, as locations on a number line, and as divisions of whole numbers....

Numbers come in many forms, and they often appeal to different types of leaners. Explore these forms through six place-value problems which have youngsters represent values numerically, in word form, and through base-ten blocks. They...

Build number sense and make learning multiples a simple task with this helpful presentation. The multiples of two, five, and ten are represented first as number patterns. Learners will be able to construct rules based on what they see....

Whether or not your school has adopted Common Core standards, this resource provides great tools for assessing kindergartners' key numeracy and computation skills.