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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)
- Sorting Seeds
- This lesson will engage students in manipulating, sorting, counting, and graphing seeds. The students will be involved in the creation of a graph using the computer.
- Author: Mary Jackson
- 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
- Students are encouraged to explore another model of subtraction—the balance.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Balancing Discoveries
- This lesson, one of a nine-part unit from Illuminations titled “Do It with Dominoes,” encourages students to explore another model of addition, the “balance” model.
- 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 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 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)
- Changes in change
- Students visit a website that gives them practice in counting money.
- Provider: National Council on Economic Education
- Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)
- Combining Foods
- Students explore addition and comparison subtraction by modeling and recording related addition and subtraction facts for a given number.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Comparing Connecting Cubes: Looking Back and Moving Forward
- Students use the mathematical knowledge and skills developed in the previous lessons to demonstrate understanding and the ability to apply that knowledge to playing subtraction games.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Comparing Sets
- Students write subtraction problems and model them with cubes.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Counting Back
- Students count to compare plates of fish-shaped crackers then record the comparison in vertical and horizontal format.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)