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- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 Sets
- Students write subtraction problems and model them with cubes.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Count to 10: Looking Back and Moving Forward
- The final segment of an eight-part unit titled “Count to 10.” Students review this unit by creating, decomposing, and comparing sets of zero to 10 objects and by writing the cardinal number for each set.
- 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)
- Counting Back and Counting On
- Students make a train of connecting cubes and write in vertical and horizontal format the differences suggested by adding to and subtracting from the train one cube at a time.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Descriptive writing and the 100th day of school
- Students write descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home. Then students write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Do it with dominoes: Looking back and moving forward
- In this lesson, students show that they have mastered addition by applying the skill to playing a domino game.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Draw a math story: From the concrete to the symbolic
- Models math story writing and gives students an opportunity to write addition and subtraction stories.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- Exploring Adding with Sets
- Reading The Hershey's Kisses Addition Book will set the stage for this lesson in which students write story problems, find sums using sets, and present results in the form of a table.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Exploring Other Number Patterns
- Students make and extend patterns with numbers in a variety of mathematical contexts.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)