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1st Grade Math Lesson Plans

Utilize Education.com's comprehensive first grade math lesson plans to help your students master the basics of math. These lesson plans are designed with first graders in mind, with in depth instructions and interactive, attention grabbing material. In other words, these lesson plans will leave your students wanting to learn more!

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Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To Game

Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To Game

Help your students make sense of the greater than, less than and equal to in this interactive lesson! Your students will have opportunities to compare either two-digit or three-digit numbers.

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Fractions of a Whole

Fractions of a Whole

Ready, set, fractions! In this hands-on lesson, your students will familiarize themselves with common fractions using concrete materials to practice splitting items into halves, thirds, and quarters.

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Ones, Tens, and Hundreds

Ones, Tens, and Hundreds

Introduce hundreds place value to your students. Increase their knowledge of place value while they enjoy working with ones, tens and hundreds blocks.

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Place Value Party

Place Value Party

Now that your first graders are able to count consecutively, introduce them to the tens and ones place values. Using tens and ones blocks will make math easy and fun for everyone!

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Skip Counting by Twos

Skip Counting by Twos

Make counting fun with colorful counting bears. Students will learn that skip counting is faster than counting by ones. They will also come away from the lesson with ideas of when skip counting can be used.

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Counting Hours: What Time Is It?

Counting Hours: What Time Is It?

Give first graders a sense of time by introducing them to telling time by the hour. Students who have mastered the numbers 1 to 12 will be eager to keep the class on a time schedule.

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Sub Plans for First Grade

Sub Plans for First Grade

Get ready to learn all about animals! In this week, students will learn about animals that live in different habitats. They will connect to literacy through classic stories like the *Three Little Pigs* and *The Very Hungry Caterpillar.*

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Basic Subtraction with Marshmallows

Basic Subtraction with Marshmallows

Tasty subtraction! Your students will have a delicious time learning to subtract with a treat they can eat when they are finished.

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Let's Stretch the Values! Writing Two-Digit Numbers in Expanded Form

Let's Stretch the Values! Writing Two-Digit Numbers in Expanded Form

What does it mean to expand a number? Use this lesson plan to help your students understand how to write the expanded form of two-digit numbers.

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Adding with M&M's

Adding with M&M's

Use a sweet treat to help students do hands-on math! Students will practice their addition skills in this yummy activity.

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Numerous Names for Numbers

Numerous Names for Numbers

It is important for students to gain a better understanding of different ways to write numbers. In this lesson, your students will practice seeing numbers in various ways to help them comprehend the meaning of numbers.

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Which is Your Favorite Season?

Which is Your Favorite Season?

Use this lesson to teach your students about the appropriate wardrobe for the different seasons. Also, teach them about the wonderful holidays of each season!

Kindergarten

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Adding with Dominoes and Playing Cards

Adding with Dominoes and Playing Cards

Double dominoes! Get your students excited to add with dominoes and playing cards. This lesson is a fun way to help your students continue to learn to add.

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Capacity Comparison

Capacity Comparison

Your class will love this outdoor activity that teaches them how to compare the capacity of different containers.

Kindergarten

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Less Than or Greater Than Alligators

Less Than or Greater Than Alligators

Your students will learn when to use less than and greater than and how to differentiate the two symbols in this lesson. They will have fun playing the role of the Less Than and Greater Than alligators!

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Popping Numbers

Popping Numbers

Pop into place! This lessons builds your students' knowledge of numbers, their place value, and how to write them correctly.

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Graphing Data: Tally Marks and Bar Graphs

Graphing Data: Tally Marks and Bar Graphs

Collecting and graphing data can be a fantastic tool for getting to know your students and for your students to get to know one another! In this lesson, students will poll their classmates to gather data and then graph the results!

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Measure the Classroom

Measure the Classroom

Let’s make math real! Engage students in learning about measurement by measuring objects around the classroom and creating word problems for peers to solve.

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Let's Build It! Two-Digit Addition

Let's Build It! Two-Digit Addition

Let’s start building numbers! Just as building skyscrapers is a visual representation of mathematics, students will use the visual representation of base-ten blocks to add—or build—onto a two-digit number.

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Where is my Fact Family?

Where is my Fact Family?

This nifty lesson helps kinesthetic learners reinforce their knowledge of the commutative property. Students will love the challenge of matching equations with their fact families.

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Fact Family Trees

Fact Family Trees

Number facts are related, just like families! Help students learn all about fact families while they make fact family trees!

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Sweet Addition

Yum, yum, yum! In this sweet lesson, students will explore concepts of addition, including how to begin with a number and count on to find a sum.

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Shopping Time

Food and grocery shopping will take on a different perspective for students by the end of this activity. Students may even find themselves keeping a closer eye on their pennies!

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Know Your Shapes!

Know Your Shapes!

In this lesson, your students will become familiar with shapes by identifying them in real life. Your students will love identifying how many sides shapes have by drawing and counting them!

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Time to Roll

It's about time to learn about time! Your students will interact with a class made clock and roll the dice to 'make up' a time. But they better know their hour and minute hands apart to find success in this lesson!

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