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It counts

This is a Science NetLinks lesson designed to help students understand and reinforce how numbers are assigned to objects, as well as think about more, less, or equal values. In this lesson, students are asked to describe, compare, and classify plants. Because... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Mathematics and Science)

Provided by: Science Netlinks

Learning about number relationships and properties of numbers using calculators and hundred boards

Building on students' intuitive understandings of patterns and number relationships, teachers can further the development of number concepts and logical reasoning as described in the Number and Operations and Reasoning and Proof Standards. In this two-part... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Lost buttons

Students investigate subtraction more directly, beginning with the easier “take away” mode. They model “take away” subtraction with buttons and write subtraction sentences. Illuminations provides helpful handouts and detailed instructions... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Making your first million

Students will attempt to identify the concept of a million by working with smaller numerical units, such as blocks of 10 or 100, and then expanding the idea by multiplication or repeated addition until a million is reached. Illuminations provides an activity... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 and 8 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Math Cats

Math never seemed so fun! Join the cool cats as they solve puzzles, think about problems, and apply math ideas to all sorts of situations in real life. Explore the online interactive math activities like... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Wendy Petti

Mixing In Math

This site offers 40 activities that can be used to teach and practice math skills during everyday routines. Activities are designed for use in after school programs, daily school routines, and at home for kids ages 5-13. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: TERC

More and more buttons

This Illuminations lesson is the fourth of an eight-part unit titled &dlquo;Begin With Buttons.” In this lesson, students use buttons to create, model, and record addition sentences. They also explore commutativity in addition contexts. This... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Numbers many ways

This Illuminations lesson is the fifth of an eight-part unit titled “Begin With Buttons.” In this lesson, students work with subtraction at the intuitive level as they explore number families and ways to decompose numbers to 10. They will also... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

One, two, three--Go

In this lesson, one of a seven-part unit from Illuminations titled “Let's Count to 5,” after reviewing the numbers two and three, students construct and identify sets of one. They compare sets of one, two, and three objects, and then record... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Order, order

In this lesson, the first of a nine-part unit from Illuminations titled “Powerful Patterns,” students seriate objects and review the meaning of ordinal numbers. They describe orderings in words and in pictures. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Pyramid power

In this lesson, the third of a six-part unit from Illuminations titled “Food Pyramid Power,” students make sets of a given number, explore relationships between numbers, and write numbers that name how many elements are in a group. They make... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Healthful Living and Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Shirts full of buttons

This lesson is one of an 8-part unit from Illuminations titled “Shirts Full of Buttons.” In this lesson students explore subtraction in the comparative mode by answering questions such as “How many more?” and “How many less?”... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Sorting foods

In this lesson, the first of a six-part unit from Illuminations titled “Food Pyramid Power,” students visit a website to play a game related to the food pyramid and sort foods using the categories of the food pyramid. They also create sets up... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Healthful Living and Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Three in a set

In this lesson, one of a seven-part unit from Illuminations titled “Let's Count to 5,” students construct sets of three, compare them with sets of two, and write the numeral 3. They also show a set of three on their recording chart. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Writing numerals to five

As students construct groups of a given size, recognize the number in the group, and record that number in numerals, they learn the number words through 5 in order (namely, to rote count), and develop the ability to count rationally. Illuminations provides... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Zero our hero

In this lesson, one of a seven-part unit from Illuminations titled “Let's Count to 5,” students explore sets of zero items and practice writing the numbers 0 through 5. Students count back from five, identify sets of up to five items, and record... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations