Better Lesson: Grandma's Button Box Sorting

Looking for a good lesson on counting and sorting? This lesson is worth a look! In this classification lesson, learners sort buttons by color, shape, shiny verses not shiny, or number of holes.

Capture the engagement of young mathematicians with this hands-on sorting activity. Given a bag of objects, students work independently sorting the items based on their physical attributes, counting to determine the size of each group....

Playing with bugs and buttons has never been so much fun! Offering a variety of different activities, this is a great resource for developing basic skills in preschool and kindergarten-aged children.

Comparing the number of objects in two groups, using one-to one-correspondence, is a foundational skill that students will build on as they begin to compare numbers. This lesson will allow students to practice this skill in small groups....

Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking. Pictures and videos of the...

Students will be able to compare groups of objects to decide if they are equal with this lesson plan. Included are pictures and videos of the lesson plan in action, worksheets, and a SMART Board resource.

Kindergarteners find classifying and ordering fascinating. For this lesson, students learn to sort by color.

Students are inspired by the Button Box to find different ways to sort their own buttons, including by shape.

SWBAT sort objects by size. The instructor will use a Promethean board (interactive projection) to facilitate this lesson.

SWBAT sort squares by color into 2 sets or groups.