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- Body graphing
- "Body Graphing" is an interactive graphing activity involving manipulatives to compare graphing results. With the use of ropes and unifix cubes students will learn to compare and contrast their body with classmates. The graphing activity can be extended to graph differences with height, hair and eye color, and other physical attributes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By patsy morgan.
- Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!
- Using chocolate as a theme, students will become involved in reading, writing, math, word study/spelling and other developmentally appropriate (integrated) activities. The unit includes centers for the classroom along with whole group activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Luwonna Oakes.
- Classifying transportation objects
- In this lesson the students will sort, classify, and label transportation items by various attributes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By LuAda Skaggs.
- Domino fun!
- Students will use a domino turned vertically and count the dots in the top section and the dots in the bottom section and add the 2 numbers together and write an equation. Students can make a domino to eat.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Lydia Wilson.
- Everybody show
- This math game teaches number recognition and progression, and strengthens rote counting skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Mary Waldrup.
- Exploring place value with M&Ms
- This lesson will use M&Ms to explore place value. The students are given 8-10 M&Ms and assigned a value for each color from one to hundred thousand. The students will then write their number in standard, written and expanded form. The students will also identify the place and value of various digits.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Amy Bullins.
- Join them together/Take them away
- The teacher will introduce beginning addition concepts of joining two sets together. The teacher will introduce beginning subtraction concepts of taking away from a set.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Vickie Hedrick.
- Learning numbers with Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
- In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 5
- In this kindergarten lesson plan, students use the nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" to develop phonemic awareness by rhyming words and participate in a number-matching activity to learn about ordinal numbers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Lisa Wright.
- M&M math
- Rotating to each station using M&M's, this lesson will allow students to add, graph, sort, and estimate.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Karen Walker.
- Money counts
- Lesson introducing counting money and making change.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
- By Angie Horne.
- More or less
- This lesson contains a series of activities on more or less. These activities can be used over several days or combined into a one-day lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Sarah Owens.
- More, less, and equal
- Students will identify sets and numbers that are more, less, or equal to each other while participating in a variety of games and activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Rachel Fiscus.
- Number combinations
- Students will use green and blue craft pom-poms to explore number combinations to five.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Beth Deyton.
- Place value power
- This lesson plan incorporates 3 modalities, which will hopefully help students use the ones/units period, the thousands period, and the millions period to compare numbers in a variety of forms.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- By Becky Boney.
- Place value to the thousands place (review activity)
- Students will use number cards with the digits 0-9, and a place value chart with thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones columns to play this game using place value.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
- By Beth Evans.
- Rounding ball
- This lesson is designed to help students become more efficient at rounding numbers to tens and hundreds using mental math methods. It will help students become quick thinkers and stay focused.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Brenda Seymour.
- Sea inventory
- In this lesson students will create a beach mural with sand, shells, and blue and white finger paints. They will count objects added to the mural as they go along.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
- By Dinah Jackson.
- Smart money
- Students will practice making money trades to equal $.25 kinesthetically and with manipulatives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
- By Sherry Griffith.
- Subtraction sticks
- Using craft sticks, students will practice subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers with renaming.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics)
- By Susan Fry.

