Get your students excited about money! Have them make connections between their prior knowledge of base-ten numerals and one, ten, and hundred dollar bills.

Adding big numbers can be tricky, but this lesson introduces your students to a strategy that makes it less intimidating! Using the place value strategy will make the task less daunting.

Multiplication is no longer a mystery when it is partnered with addition! Help your students make connections between multiplication and repeated addition with this hands-on lesson that includes several types of concrete examples.

Use this hands-on lesson to encourage collaboration amongst students as they review base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson to Base Ten Block Party or as a stand-alone activity.

Teach your students to round to the hundred thousands place with this straightforward lesson.

Help your students discover the power behind base ten drawings! Regrouping is a challenge for many students, but with this hands-on lesson, your students will be empowered with a new strategy to tackle difficult regrouping problems.

Students will get a chance to see and interact with solving tens multiplication facts in real world scenarios. They will finish this lesson confident in knowing how to solve 10s multiplication facts.

Informative essays have a structure that is fairly easy to dissect. This lesson includes an anchor essay which students will mark up, a mixed-up essay outline for them to sort, and a web for them to organize ideas for their own essay.

Help your students practice place value with this fun, hands-on base-ten block game. Neighborhood block teams compete to win points as they work together to show expanded numbers.

Students are at the center of learning as they create and illustrate their own Halloween math problems that show the relationship between addition and multiplication - helping them transition conceptually from the concrete to the abstract.

In this lesson, students must become detectives to solve for the missing number in each subtraction problem. They will develop and use their powers of mathematical reasoning using number bonds to find differences.

Do you feel like your students are on a merry-go-round when it comes to rounding? This lesson will give your student control of the “ride” and give them tools to use when rounding.

Help your students unscramble the numbers using their knowledge of place value up to thousands! In this lesson, students will be able to see how numbers within a larger number have different values.

Make addition with regrouping easy with this lesson plan that makes the task a visual learning experience.

Use this lesson with your students to allow them to explore the associative property of multiplication by having deep discussions in small groups. Use this as a stand alone lesson or alongside Associative Property of Multiplication.

Many students cringe when they see a subtraction problem with multiple zeros. The “Subtract One” strategy in this lesson involves reducing the top number by one to turn the 0 digits into 9’s and then adding the one back in at the end.

We teach our writers to “show, not tell.” Action verbs are a key component in that process! Use this lesson to teach your students to identify and use action verbs in sentences in order to strengthen their writing with clear description.

Give your students a head start in rounding with this fun lesson that gives them an easy trick to help them learn if they should round up or down to the nearest 10.

Big, bigger, biggest? Teach your students about comparative and superlative adjectives as they make comparisons. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the Nonfiction Comprehension: Compare and Contrast lesson.

Build your students' number sense regarding place value by facilitating discussion! Use this as a stand alone lesson or alongside What is My Place Value?

Introduce your students to divisibility rules with a lesson that encourages deep thinking and meaningful math talk between peers.

Teach your students how repeated addition relates to multiplication. This lesson builds number sense and supports a conceptual understanding of multiplication.

Set your classroom up for success with this daily sub plan featuring lessons, worksheets, and activities! This resource is a great way to prepare for a substitute in your classroom. Your substitute can keep your third graders learning in your absence by using this packet of material. This teaching resource highlights fiction comprehension, creative writing, social studies skills, and math challenges.

Your fourth graders will not only have fun creating and playing an equivalent fractions memory game in this interactive lesson, they will also become much stronger mathemeticians in the process.

Use hands-on activities involving play dough to show your students the layers of the Earth!

Teach your students to multiply by multiples of 10, up to 1,000.

Tap into students' metacognitive skills and get them to think about their thinking! This lesson encourages students to pay attention to the strategies they use while supporting math fluency!

This lesson focuses on facilitating a rich classroom discussion around the purpose and methods of rounding numbers up to the thousands place. It can be taught on its own or as support to the lesson Rounding with Number Lines.

Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own.

Carefully find the adverbs in sentences that give more information about the verb! Use this lesson to teach your students how to pick out an adverb and understand what information it gives about the verb.