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Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking
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Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Transform the traditional egg drop experiment as you help students to engage in design thinking and develop empathy.
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Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking
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Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking
Transform the traditional egg drop experiment as you help students to engage in design thinking and develop empathy.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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What Were They Thinking?
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What Were They Thinking?
Fourth Grade
What do Malala Yousafzai, Al Gore, and Michelle Obama all have in common? They are all nonfiction authors with a purpose. In this interactive lesson, students will gain practice looking at details in text to identify the author’s purpose.
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What Were They Thinking?
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What Were They Thinking?
What do Malala Yousafzai, Al Gore, and Michelle Obama all have in common? They are all nonfiction authors with a purpose. In this interactive lesson, students will gain practice looking at details in text to identify the author’s purpose.
Fourth Grade
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What's the Problem?
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What's the Problem?
Second Grade
Time and Money
High order thinking skills are critical skills for students of all ages. In this lesson, your students will create word problems about money.
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What's the Problem?
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What's the Problem?
High order thinking skills are critical skills for students of all ages. In this lesson, your students will create word problems about money.
Second Grade
Time and Money
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Thinking Deeply About Word Problems
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Thinking Deeply About Word Problems
Third Grade
Subtraction
Word problems can be overwhelming to students, but if they have a tool to help them, they can handle it! Use this as a stand alone lesson or alongside
Stepping Through Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
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Thinking Deeply About Word Problems
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Thinking Deeply About Word Problems
Word problems can be overwhelming to students, but if they have a tool to help them, they can handle it! Use this as a stand alone lesson or alongside
Stepping Through Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
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Third Grade
Subtraction
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Questions that Gauge Comprehension
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Questions that Gauge Comprehension
Third Grade
Vocabulary
Use this lesson to gauge your students’ basic comprehension of fiction text. If they can answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions, you know they have a handle on it and it’s time to get into more critical thinking!
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Questions that Gauge Comprehension
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Questions that Gauge Comprehension
Use this lesson to gauge your students’ basic comprehension of fiction text. If they can answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions, you know they have a handle on it and it’s time to get into more critical thinking!
Third Grade
Vocabulary
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Reading Response Letters
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Reading Response Letters
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
How can you
see
what your students are thinking while they read? Try reading response letters in your class. Students will practice formatting letters and learn to discuss their thinking about literature in writing.
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Reading Response Letters
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Reading Response Letters
How can you
see
what your students are thinking while they read? Try reading response letters in your class. Students will practice formatting letters and learn to discuss their thinking about literature in writing.
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
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Using Articles: A, An, The
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Using Articles: A, An, The
Fourth Grade
Articles are a simple yet critical part of speech. This lesson helps your fourth graders distinguish the three articles and understand how to use them correctly in sentences.
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Using Articles: A, An, The
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Using Articles: A, An, The
Articles are a simple yet critical part of speech. This lesson helps your fourth graders distinguish the three articles and understand how to use them correctly in sentences.
Fourth Grade
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Exploring Different Perspectives in Folktales
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Exploring Different Perspectives in Folktales
Third Grade
Give your students the opportunity to explore the perspectives of different characters by using the "Circle of Viewpoints" Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard's Project Zero.
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Exploring Different Perspectives in Folktales
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Exploring Different Perspectives in Folktales
Give your students the opportunity to explore the perspectives of different characters by using the "Circle of Viewpoints" Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard's Project Zero.
Third Grade
Lesson Plan
Is It True?
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Is It True?
Fourth Grade
Don't believe everything you read! Teach students to differentiate between statements of fact and opinion. This important skill will help students become critical and discerning readers.
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Is It True?
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Is It True?
Don't believe everything you read! Teach students to differentiate between statements of fact and opinion. This important skill will help students become critical and discerning readers.
Fourth Grade
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Divisibility Rules
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Divisibility Rules
Fourth Grade
Introduce your students to divisibility rules with a lesson that encourages deep thinking and meaningful math talk between peers.
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Divisibility Rules
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Divisibility Rules
Introduce your students to divisibility rules with a lesson that encourages deep thinking and meaningful math talk between peers.
Fourth Grade
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Introducing Order of Operations
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Introducing Order of Operations
Fourth Grade
The order of operations is a critical concept for fourth graders to grasp in preparation for algebra. This introductory lesson on the order of operations will teach your students about the helpful acronym PEMDAS.
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Introducing Order of Operations
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Introducing Order of Operations
The order of operations is a critical concept for fourth graders to grasp in preparation for algebra. This introductory lesson on the order of operations will teach your students about the helpful acronym PEMDAS.
Fourth Grade
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Main Ideas, Please!
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Main Ideas, Please!
Third Grade
Writing
Your students will be introduced to the concept of a main idea in this fun lesson using props to support their thinking.
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Main Ideas, Please!
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Main Ideas, Please!
Your students will be introduced to the concept of a main idea in this fun lesson using props to support their thinking.
Third Grade
Writing
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Exploring Animal Adaptations!
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Exploring Animal Adaptations!
Third Grade
Life Science
Give your students the opportunity to explore the perspectives of different characters by using the "See Think Wonder" Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard's Project Zero.
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Exploring Animal Adaptations!
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Exploring Animal Adaptations!
Give your students the opportunity to explore the perspectives of different characters by using the "See Think Wonder" Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard's Project Zero.
Third Grade
Life Science
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Decompose to Multiply: 6, 7, 8, and 9
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Decompose to Multiply: 6, 7, 8, and 9
Third Grade
Teach your students to decompose factors as a strategy to find multiples of 6, 7, 8, and 9. This lesson supports flexible thinking and number sense.
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Decompose to Multiply: 6, 7, 8, and 9
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Decompose to Multiply: 6, 7, 8, and 9
Teach your students to decompose factors as a strategy to find multiples of 6, 7, 8, and 9. This lesson supports flexible thinking and number sense.
Third Grade
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Adobe Spark: Parts, Purposes & Complexities
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Adobe Spark: Parts, Purposes & Complexities
Fourth Grade
Reading
Discover a new tool for creative assessments and lessons! In this lesson, students will investigate Adobe Spark using Agency by Design thinking routines to help them understand how they can use technology to communicate ideas.
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Adobe Spark: Parts, Purposes & Complexities
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Adobe Spark: Parts, Purposes & Complexities
Discover a new tool for creative assessments and lessons! In this lesson, students will investigate Adobe Spark using Agency by Design thinking routines to help them understand how they can use technology to communicate ideas.
Fourth Grade
Reading
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Solving Elapsed Time Word Problems
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Solving Elapsed Time Word Problems
Third Grade
Get your students thinking about how the number line and the word problem are related! Use this lesson alongside
Get There On Time: Elapsed Time Word Problems
or on its own.
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Solving Elapsed Time Word Problems
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Solving Elapsed Time Word Problems
Get your students thinking about how the number line and the word problem are related! Use this lesson alongside
Get There On Time: Elapsed Time Word Problems
or on its own.
Third Grade
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Identifying the Author's Purpose
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Identifying the Author's Purpose
Fourth Grade
This lesson gives students foundational skills needed to identify the author's purpose in a variety of texts. Use the lesson as a stand alone or as a pre-lesson to What Were They Thinking?
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Identifying the Author's Purpose
Lesson Plan
Identifying the Author's Purpose
This lesson gives students foundational skills needed to identify the author's purpose in a variety of texts. Use the lesson as a stand alone or as a pre-lesson to What Were They Thinking?
Fourth Grade
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Converting Centimeters to Meters
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Converting Centimeters to Meters
Fourth Grade
Decimals
Get your students comfortable discussing their math thinking in converting centimeters to meters. This lesson may be used on its own or as support to the lesson Converting Metric Measurements to Decimals & Fractions.
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Converting Centimeters to Meters
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Converting Centimeters to Meters
Get your students comfortable discussing their math thinking in converting centimeters to meters. This lesson may be used on its own or as support to the lesson Converting Metric Measurements to Decimals & Fractions.
Fourth Grade
Decimals
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Pondering Prefixes
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Pondering Prefixes
Fourth Grade
Beyond just prefix identification, this meaty lesson taps into your students’ thinking. Using a combination of analogies, constructing, and deconstructing words with prefixes, students will learn the meaning and mechanics of prefixes.
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Pondering Prefixes
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Pondering Prefixes
Beyond just prefix identification, this meaty lesson taps into your students’ thinking. Using a combination of analogies, constructing, and deconstructing words with prefixes, students will learn the meaning and mechanics of prefixes.
Fourth Grade
Lesson Plan
How Did You Solve the Puzzle?
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How Did You Solve the Puzzle?
Fourth Grade
Grid puzzles are a terrific way to practice thinking about math! In this lesson, students are asked to solve addition grid puzzles and compare processes. Use it on its own or as support for the lesson Solving KenKen Puzzles.
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How Did You Solve the Puzzle?
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How Did You Solve the Puzzle?
Grid puzzles are a terrific way to practice thinking about math! In this lesson, students are asked to solve addition grid puzzles and compare processes. Use it on its own or as support for the lesson Solving KenKen Puzzles.
Fourth Grade
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Explaining Equivalent Fractions
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Explaining Equivalent Fractions
Third Grade
In order to build a strong foundation with fractions, students should be able to explain the concept and their thinking. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for
Let's Play Equivalent Fractions!
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Explaining Equivalent Fractions
Lesson Plan
Explaining Equivalent Fractions
In order to build a strong foundation with fractions, students should be able to explain the concept and their thinking. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for
Let's Play Equivalent Fractions!
Third Grade
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Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic
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Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic
Fourth Grade
Vocabulary
Did you know that comparative tasks improve comprehension and help students develop higher order thinking skills? In this lesson, students will compare nonfiction texts on the same topic using Venn diagrams and performance!
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Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic
Lesson Plan
Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic
Did you know that comparative tasks improve comprehension and help students develop higher order thinking skills? In this lesson, students will compare nonfiction texts on the same topic using Venn diagrams and performance!
Fourth Grade
Vocabulary
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Writing Questions for Multi-Step Word Problems
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Writing Questions for Multi-Step Word Problems
Fourth Grade
Get your students thinking like mathematicians with this lesson that has them crafting questions for multi-step word problems. It may be taught independently or as support for the lesson Multi-Step Word Problems? No Problem!
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Writing Questions for Multi-Step Word Problems
Lesson Plan
Writing Questions for Multi-Step Word Problems
Get your students thinking like mathematicians with this lesson that has them crafting questions for multi-step word problems. It may be taught independently or as support for the lesson Multi-Step Word Problems? No Problem!
Fourth Grade
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Justifying the Distributive Property
Lesson Plan
Justifying the Distributive Property
Fourth Grade
Let's talk about the distributive property! Give students a chance to explain their thinking of how and why this property of multiplication works. This lesson may be taught as a standalone or as support to the lesson Distributive Property.
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Justifying the Distributive Property
Lesson Plan
Justifying the Distributive Property
Let's talk about the distributive property! Give students a chance to explain their thinking of how and why this property of multiplication works. This lesson may be taught as a standalone or as support to the lesson Distributive Property.
Fourth Grade
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Let's Shake on It!
Lesson Plan
Let's Shake on It!
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Students will enjoy thinking about subject and verbs as two parts that must work together to form a clear idea. Students will create mixed-up sentences as a class, then write funny stories that peers can revise.
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Let's Shake on It!
Lesson Plan
Let's Shake on It!
Students will enjoy thinking about subject and verbs as two parts that must work together to form a clear idea. Students will create mixed-up sentences as a class, then write funny stories that peers can revise.
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
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Who Was Amelia Boynton Robinson?
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Who Was Amelia Boynton Robinson?
Fourth Grade
Reading
Take your fourth and fifth graders on a deep dive into the civil rights movement with this lesson on Amelia Boynton Robinson. A key activist in the movement, Amelia played a critical role in organizing the Selma to Montgomery march. Your students will read, annotate, and analyze her biography through multiple reads, before discussing the text with their classmates.
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Who Was Amelia Boynton Robinson?
Lesson Plan
Who Was Amelia Boynton Robinson?
Take your fourth and fifth graders on a deep dive into the civil rights movement with this lesson on Amelia Boynton Robinson. A key activist in the movement, Amelia played a critical role in organizing the Selma to Montgomery march. Your students will read, annotate, and analyze her biography through multiple reads, before discussing the text with their classmates.
Fourth Grade
Reading
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Learning About Mindful Listening
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Learning About Mindful Listening
Fourth Grade
Kids often need to bew taught that listening isn't just hearing someone -- it's thinking about what they have to say, too. In this lesson students will become introduced to the circle process and help put together guidelines for community building, and learn how to listen to their classmatesnot just quietly, but respectfully.
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Learning About Mindful Listening
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Learning About Mindful Listening
Kids often need to bew taught that listening isn't just hearing someone -- it's thinking about what they have to say, too. In this lesson students will become introduced to the circle process and help put together guidelines for community building, and learn how to listen to their classmatesnot just quietly, but respectfully.
Fourth Grade
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Factor Friend or Foe?
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Factor Friend or Foe?
Fourth Grade
Multiplication
Which number doesn't belong? This lesson requires students to think critically as they determine which number is not a factor of a particular number. Teach it on its own or as support for the lesson Factors Over the Rainbow.
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Factor Friend or Foe?
Lesson Plan
Factor Friend or Foe?
Which number doesn't belong? This lesson requires students to think critically as they determine which number is not a factor of a particular number. Teach it on its own or as support for the lesson Factors Over the Rainbow.
Fourth Grade
Multiplication
Lesson Plan
Making Predictions Lesson
Lesson Plan
Making Predictions Lesson
Third Grade
This lesson thoughtfully scaffolds the reading skill of predicting. Students are introduced to the concept and get to practice making predictions. They will apply what they have learned during a focused independent reading activity.
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Making Predictions Lesson
Lesson Plan
Making Predictions Lesson
This lesson thoughtfully scaffolds the reading skill of predicting. Students are introduced to the concept and get to practice making predictions. They will apply what they have learned during a focused independent reading activity.
Third Grade
Lesson Plan
Missing Numbers: Math Review
Lesson Plan
Missing Numbers: Math Review
Third Grade
Multiplication
Help! The numbers in our equations have run away and left their answers alone! In this lesson, students will review their math facts and knowledge to solve Ken Ken like puzzles and bring the numbers back to their places.
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Missing Numbers: Math Review
Lesson Plan
Missing Numbers: Math Review
Help! The numbers in our equations have run away and left their answers alone! In this lesson, students will review their math facts and knowledge to solve Ken Ken like puzzles and bring the numbers back to their places.
Third Grade
Multiplication
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