Emphasize student understanding and reasoning! This lesson plan helps learners solve story problems using sense-making strategies. This can be used alongside the lesson Solving Word Problems or as a stand-alone lesson.

In this lesson, students will learn how to decode unknown words in a texts using context clues. Students will be introduced to the idea of opposites and will practice identifying opposites. This lesson can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Is It the Same?

Students will begin to calculate volume of different rectangular prisms using base ten cubes and then transition to using the formula V = L x W x H. Students will then practice using the legendary fifth grade activity, Cootie Catchers.

Prepare students for more complex math skills and build their current math skills with this hands-on lesson.

Engage students in learning about data by analyzing picture graphs, then collecting data from classmates and making their own graphs!

Practice finding unknown numbers in addition equations using fun and silly word problems.

This tasty lesson will teach second graders about fractions using cookies.

Give your students some early practice with shapes using this simple lesson. Young learners will have a great time creating shapes using pieces of string.

There’s more than one way to add and subtract mixed numbers! Use this witty lesson plan to teach your students to illustrate mixed number sums and difference while giggling with delight.

Students will learn to model mixed number subtraction with manipulatives using this hands-on lesson plan.

Teach your students to calculate fractions of 100 using a number line model.

Students will learn out how to partition a rectangle using by partitioning shapes with rows and columns.

Teach your students to find the perimeter of polygons using real world examples. They will make polygon pictures using tangrams and practice finding the perimeters of the polygons in their masterpieces.

Delicious multiplication! In this sweet lesson, your students will learn how to relate multiplication to repeated addition using candy counters.

In this fun lesson, your class will love learning how to count on using hilarious read alouds as their guide!

This engaging math lesson combines all of your kid's fall favorites as they learn to represent data using a bar graph.

In this counting lesson plan, your students will practice using numbers 11 to 20 while learning about comparison.

Help your students learn about keeping track of numbers using one-to-one correspondance in this fun lesson!

Students participate in a classroom scavenger hunt with a partner to measure common classroom objects using a ruler.

This lesson helps students review rounding to the nearest hundred. Your students will practice rounding using manipulatives.

In this counting lesson plan, your ELs will get lots of practice identifying and writing numbers using a high interest nature focus!

In this lesson, your students will get hands-on practice comparing quantities! Students will compare using buttons, blocks, and their classmates.

Help your students perfect their use of the order of operations with this lesson that has them create a flippable to aid as they practice using GEMDAS to solve muli-operational problems.

Help your students use rulers in the classroom with this lesson! Encourage them to measure items around them using centimeters to understand shapes and sizes.

In this tactile lesson, students will understand how decimals relate to a whole number by using base 10 blocks in a whole new way!

Advance your students from relative measurements to learning about standardized units with this lesson that teaches them about inches and feet by using common classroom objects.

Discuss correct decimal placement using logical arguments and by multiplying whole numbers. Use this lesson as a standalone lesson or use it as support to the lesson Multiply Decimals.

Fractions are in everyday life! This lesson reviews how to solve word problems involving fractions using tape diagrams. The problems include addition, subtraction, and multiplication of fractions.

In this engaging, hands-on lesson, students solidify their understanding of place value by adding and regrouping two-digit numbers using M&Ms.

Students will love composing shapes using tangrams in this hands-on lesson! Use this plan alone or as a support lesson plan for the Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle lesson plan.