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Help your students master addition and subtraction through lesson plans that provide clear explanations and practice opportunities. These activities use games and real-life scenarios to make learning relatable. Implement them to ensure students have a strong mathematical foundation.
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This 1.OA.3 First Grade Common Core Lesson helps students discover that you can add in any order and get the same sum each time! This is a great lesson for teachers who want to help their students better understand addition.
For educators and homeschoolers searching for an efficient way to teach students about the concept of adding and subtracting 10, this 10 more or 10 less than a 2-digit number - 1st Grade resource is a valuable asset!
Teach and practice adding and subtracting decimals, including in word-problem contexts, via guided notes followed by independent practice.
This 2.MD.6 Second Grade Common Core lesson will help your students add and subtract within 100 on a number line. This is a great way to introduce the concept and get your students comfortable with the material.
This 2.NBT.5 Second Grade Common Core lesson helps students fluently add and subtract within 100 using multiple strategies.
Adding and Subtracting Integers NOTES, PRACTICE, QUICK DRILLS Adding and Subtracting Integers NOTES, PRACTICE, QUICK DRILLS is a comprehensive teaching resource targeted towards 7th-grade math teachers or home-school educators.
Teach students a step-by-step strategy for solving one-step and multi-step decimal word problems set in real-world contexts (money, distance, measurement, rate).
Add and Subtract in Swahili Add and Subtract in Swahili is an innovative resource that bridges the gap between cultures, languages, and basic math skills.
A Common-Core-aligned full-day substitute teacher plan for 2nd grade built around the theme of animals and their habitats, combining reading comprehension, vocabulary, and math practice so a substitute can run an entire instructional day
Add It Up Add It Up is a teaching resource that focuses on the Common Core Standard 2.NBT.6 – the ability to add up to four two-digit numbers using place value techniques.
This comprehensive set of resources offers a structured method for teaching addition of three numbers up to 20, containing (almost unlimited) worksheets and digital material suitable for the PC or Mac or Interactive Whiteboard use.
A financial literacy lesson teaching home-buying vocabulary and math (down payment, mortgage, interest, principal, property taxes, insurance, utilities, repairs) through a vocabulary handout, a cut-and-paste matching activity, and word-problem practice.
A Grade 3 math workbook/lesson resource teaching addition and subtraction strategies including counting on/back, fact families, algorithms, and word problems.
A Grade 1 teaching resource using Dienes (base-ten) blocks to teach two-digit addition and subtraction within 100, with and without exchange/regrouping (carrying/borrowing).
The eight-lesson packet connects expression vocabulary with calculation and pattern work. Students translate phrases into expressions, evaluate using the order of operations, and work with rules for numerical patterns. Teacher examples support the notes, while the cumulative quiz and its answer key provide a separate check after the lesson sequence.
FLASH-MAC: Algebra Addition & Subtraction FLASH-MAC is a comprehensive and interactive teaching resource aimed at simplifying the complexities of algebra for Grade 1 and Grade 2 students.
Algebra: Addition & Subtraction - FLASH-PC An indispensable educational asset for teaching grade 1 and grade 2 maths, the FLASH-PC focusses on foundational algebra skills, particularly addition and subtraction.
A differentiated, multi-subject teaching packet built around the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk' (by Jeanette Vuuren), combining picture-story cards with cloze-style story sentences and cross-curricular math/literacy activities, designed for relief/substitute or regular classroom use from Prep to Year 3.
A complete full-day set of substitute-teacher lesson plans for a K-1 classroom built around a bugs theme, covering morning/afternoon meeting messages, independent reading with reader-response, math, science reading comprehension, and writing activities, with a Common Core standards-aligned activities grid for the substitute teacher.
A full-day substitute-teacher lesson-plan packet themed around art and famous artists, combining literacy, social studies, and math activities for a single school day.
A no-prep, 5-day Grade 2 end-of-school-year math packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining math skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
A baseball-themed cross-curricular unit combining reading comprehension, writing, and math practice for elementary students.
An interactive math notebook covering Virginia Math SOL 3.CE.1: addition, subtraction, estimation, and single/multi-step word problem solving with whole numbers up to 1,000.
A five-day, no-prep end-of-year math packet for Kindergarten that reviews Common Core counting, addition, and shape skills through scripted lessons, picture-based worksheets, and a read-aloud math story.