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- Let's Trade (regrouping to subtract)
- This word (trade) will introduce regrouping to subtract by allowing students to "trade" manipulatives to regroup.
- Author: Sarah Cole
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Making change to $1.00.
- In this lesson students will work in small groups making change to $1.00 using coins and pictures of items priced from Sunday fliers. In advance the teacher will cut out pictures of items costing less than $1.00.
- Author: Julie Hohns
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Money Counts
- Lesson introducing counting money and making change.
- Author: Angie Horne
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Place the Value (Place Value)
- This activity allows students to create 3-digit numbers while strategically trying to "out value" their opponents' values.
- Author: amy cord
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Smart Money
- Students will practice making money trades to equal $.25 kinesthetically and with manipulatives.
- Author: Sherry Griffith
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Sum Calculator Fun
- Students work in pairs to practice math facts and use calculators to check answers.
- Author: Laurie Melton
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Addend Pairs to 12
- Students explore pairs of numbers that add to 12 or less by playing a game.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Balancing Equations
- This lesson encourages students to explore another meaning for operations of subtraction, the balance.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Begin with Buttons: Looking Back and Moving Forward
- Students review the work of the previous lessons through a variety of activity stations, one of which involves using an interactive website.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Numbers to Five
- Students make groups of zero to 5 objects, connect number names to the groups, compose and decompose numbers, and use numerals to record the size of a group.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Numbers Up to 10
- Students construct sets of numbers up to 10, write numerals up to 10, and count up to 10 rationally.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Sets of 11 and 12
- Students use bean sticks, connecting cubes, and ten frames to construct sets of 11 and 12, and then record and compare them.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Sets of 13 and 14
- Students construct and identify sets of 13 and size 14.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Sets of 15 and 16
- Students explore the numbers 15 and 16.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Sets of 17 and 18
- Students construct sets up to 18, write the numerals 17 and 18, and model 17 and 18 with bean sticks, cubes, and ten frames.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Sets of 19 and 20
- Students count up to 20, construct and decompose sets up to 20, and record the decompositions.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Sets of Eight
- Students make and decompose sets of eight, write the numeral 8, and compare sets of up to eight objects.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Sets of Nine
- Students construct sets of up to nine items, write the numeral 9, and record nine on a chart.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Sets of Six
- Students construct sets of six, compare them with sets of a size up to six objects, and write the numeral 6.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Building Sets of Ten
- Students explore sets of up to 10 items and practice writing the numbers 0 through 10.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)