Equality Number Sentences
(View Complete Item Description)This task helps students understand the meaning of the equal sign and to use it appropriately.
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All resources in Oregon Mathematics
Math and Music
(View Complete Item Description)All the activities in this lesson are addition and subtraction based. It is not designed to introduce addition and subtraction, rather, to supplement and enrich lessons already being taught. This lesson is not designed to be completed in one sitting. It may be done throughout an entire addition and subtraction unit. These activities may be used as starter activities when introducing new math concepts, particularly those that relate to addition and subtraction.
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Kiri's Mathematics Match Game
(View Complete Item Description)In this game students must engage basic addition and subtraction facts.
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Find the Missing Number
(View Complete Item Description)This task asks students to solve addition and subtraction equations with different structures so that they are able to see the connections between addition and subtraction more easily.
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1.OA Fact Families
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials * Fact Family work sheets * Blank addition and subtraction frames (2 of each) * Numbers cards in fact-family sets Actions As a whole class, t...
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Hand Span Measures
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity students measure their hand span. A line graph is used to record the data from the glass.
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Growing Bean Plants
(View Complete Item Description)This task adds some rigor to the activity of growing bean plants. By collecting growth data, students practice measuring and recording length measurements.
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2.G Partitioning a Rectangle into Unit Squares
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
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2.G Partitioning a Rectangle into Unit Squares
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
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2.G Polygons
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: * Color the inside of all the triangles blue. * Color the inside of all the quadrilaterals red. * Color the inside of all the pentagons orange. * Color...
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Representing Half of a Rectangle
(View Complete Item Description)This task provides a context for indentifying different ways of representing half of a rectangle.
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Which Pictures Represent One Half?
(View Complete Item Description)In this task students see different ways of partitioning a circle and a rectangle into two or more equal shares.
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2.MD Frog and Toad on the number line
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: One day, Frog and Toad were sitting together on a lily pad. Some lily pads were in a line across the pond. In the morning, Frog hopped three lily pads ...
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2.MD Ordering Time
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials * Sets of 3-6 "analog clock cards," enough for each student * Sets of 3-6 "digital clock cards," enough for each student * Paper and pencil A...
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Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
(View Complete Item Description)In the story, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, Alexander receives a dollar from his grandparents that he plans to save, but he spends it all, a little at a time. In this lesson, students count by twos to fill a container with 100 pennies. They are asked whether 100 pennies is the same amount of money as one dollar. They listen to the story and as Alexander spends his money, students come up and remove the correct number of pennies from a container. At the end of the story, students are again asked if 100 pennies is the same amount of money as one dollar. Students discuss the choices that Alexander made and give advice on how he could save his money to reach his goal of buying a walkie-talkie.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading
Pet Shop
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of the task is to use the given prices of stuffed animals at the “pet shop” to solve problems using money. The students need to use their coins or bills to help them solve each problem.
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Jamir's Penny Jar
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this task is to help students articulate their addition strategies and would be most appropriately used once students have a solid understanding of coin values.
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Saving Money 1
(View Complete Item Description)In this challenging instructional task students relate addition and subtraction problems to money and to situations and goals related to saving money.
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Choices, Choices, Choices
(View Complete Item Description)Arianna has been saving her chore money all summer. Her mother has allowed her to spend the money on school supplies of Arianna’s choosing. Here are some of her favorite items and the price for each
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2.NBT Looking at Numbers Every Which Way
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: 127 is a number. Write it as a sum of 100's, 10's, and 1's. Write its name in words. Draw a picture to represent the number. Locate it on the number li...
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