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Math Lesson Plans - Grades 2-3
- Math Manipulatives Lesson Plan - 3rd Grade
- Review of Multiplication
- Butterfly Unit - References
- Butterfly Unit - What Have We Learned?
- Butterfly Unit - Butterfly Poetry
- Butterfly Unit - Symmetry Lesson
- Butterfly Unit - How to Attract Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - Eat Like a Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycle Sequencing
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit -What Caterpillars Eat
- Addition of two and three digit whole numbers
- Math Lesson Plans - Grades 2-3
- The Importance of Symbols
- 8 days on Deafness and American Sign Language
- Time is Money
- Prime Numbers
- This multidisciplinary plan is called Music Basketball and deals with Note Values
- Here students practice telling time on a website clock and on a customized clock worksheets
- Here's a lesson idea on standard form vs expanded form
- In this station activity, students measure the perimeter of real life objects
- 9:05, 9:10, 9:15 - with this lesson, students can tell time to 5 minutes
- Here's a Card Game idea for studying Greater Than/Less Than
- With the help of a telephone keypad, this idea reinforces spelling while working with addition of multiple numbers
- "It's On Sale" is the title of this lesson on money and shopping
- This is an interesting idea for buying groceries for a Thanksgiving dinner
- This is another easy way to learn "evens" and "odds"
- Here are several Halloween math ideas using clever pumpkin/ghost lima bean counters
- This magical lesson uses the story of Cinderella to teach rounding
- Jump-O-Math is a game idea that combines hopscotch, counting, and addition
- A Math lesson on place value
- Here is another addition, subtraction, or multiplication "War" card game idea
- Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this lesson
- "Early to Bed" is a really good time addition game
- Young students take a money test here by shopping for items in the class store
- Here's a lesson on One Digit Multiplication by Repeated Addition
- Math lesson on addition and subtraction
- This lesson on angles integrates science, social studies, and art
- This lesson idea on Shapes involves students creating Windsocks out of Shapes
- In this Geometer's Sketchpad lesson, equilateral triangles are created and defined
- This math lesson on counting skills is called "Counting Colors"
- A Social Studies lesson involving Zoo Animals and some Math concepts
- This Greater Than Less Than lesson uses the card game War
- "Around the World Math" is an idea that combines basketball and math problems
- A fun Graphing lesson to track the home runs of Big Mac and Slammin' Sammy
- This real world bar graph lesson uses an easy bar graph generating website
- This is a multiplication order of operations game
- After each student creates a self-descriptive bubble map, the class graphs the popular adjectives in this first day of school idea
- Here is a lesson plan on skip counting that uses a "Pass The Paper" game
- Lesson 2 involves exploring Simple Machines in groups
- A Math lesson on division (sharing)
- This lesson plan is on Measuring, Graphing, and Cardinal Numbers
- A Math lesson on shapes in geometry
- Student entrepreneurs experience business, calculate profit, and develop an understanding of "economic growth" as settlers in a new community in this multidisciplinary activity
- This brief idea involves Wheels and Axles
- What could be more exciting than NASCAR and math?
- A Valentine's lesson idea on Addition and Subtraction
- Students create their own "Chica Chica 123" book here about counting by tens
- "Alexander, Used to be Rich Last Sunday" turns reading a book into a money activity
- Lesson 5 discusses Assembly Lines and the making of products
- Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
- "Fraction Pyramid" is an idea that combines math, social studies, and cooperation
- This idea teaches place value the "dice" way
- This is a probability lesson with spinners
- "Swat It" is a multiplication game idea using flyswatters
- Here is another lesson on estimation
- This second part of lesson 4 continues the Matching Activity above
- Here's a multidisciplinary plan on the water cycle
- In this cooperative learning lesson, students estimate the number of objects in a box and add them together by grouping
- Here's a mental math card game
- In this date lesson, the class sorts the years on 100 pennies
- This math operations (+ - x /) game requires students to pool their assigned numbers into a math sentence to reach the target answer
- This lesson discusses Pulleys and their use
- This learning to whistle idea teaches the value of fortitude
- A Place Value lesson in a Game format
- This graphing idea involves students' favorite ice cream
- Here's a brief graphing idea to use during the Olympics
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- In this 2-digit subtraction lesson, students spend $99 on items costing over $10
- This fun idea involves throwing balls into divided boxes to determine numbers to add (integrates PE)
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- These "First Excel Lessons" teach students how to enter and format data to create simple bar charts
- This an Odd and Even Song
- Here's a magically delicious graphing activity with Lucky Charms
- This activity uses "Skittles" to create a tally chart, pictograph and bar graph
- Using a jump rope rhyme is an effective idea to teach note values
- This math and music idea instills numeracy without using number symbols
- Polygon Monsters - create them and write about them!
- This is a lesson on probability and chance
- Here is another arithmetic lesson involving writing and fairy tales
- Here's a Valentine's Day idea on latitude, longitude, and coordinates called "Valentine Battleship"
- Teaching Temperature is the title of this lesson involving Fahrenheit Vs Celsius
- This lesson on Geometrical Shapes uses the story "The Greedy Triangle"
- This "Price is Right" money lesson is fun for a "change"
- This lesson gives students hands-on experience creating and illustrating word problems
- Students create a fractions photo story presentation here using pictures of common objects
- The unit begins with an introduction to the Simple Machines Unit
- Here student height comparison charts are created with Microsoft Excel
- A lesson on addition and subtraction using calculators
- Everyone will have fun on this school shape scavenger hunt
- "Al The Alligator" is the title of this lesson on Greater Than and Less Than
- In this lesson, students apply social studies & math skills to plan a field trip
- Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- Another idea on Shapes, this one involves creating pictures out of Shapes (collages)
- This lesson idea on rounding is called "We've Got Power"
- This "Complete Me" decimal game teaches how decimals can be added together to form a whole
- This is just a brief song to help with teaching circles, diameter, and radius
- This problem-solving bar-graph lesson uses centimeter measurements of hat sizes
- This is a fun way to learn math using the song, "Who Stole the Cookies"
- "The Twelve Days of Math" Christmas song is the basis for this lesson idea
- This "Bob the Builder" warm-up activity integrates math with a cardiovascular workout
- In this new Chipo's Gift "glyph" activity, two species of moths will be compared and contrasted
- This lesson is on Multiplication Facts with the Numbers 3, 6, 7, and 9
- Here are some activities for the 100th Day of School
- "Joe's Treasure Hunt" involves finding x:y coordinates on a graph
- A Math lesson on geometry involving spatial reasoning
- A lesson on measurement of area and perimeter
- This card game idea is on positive and negative numbers
- Here's a lesson for measuring Magnetic Strength
- This idea is called "Measure It" and involves classroom objects
- Here is a science and math lesson on volume (uses pumpkins)
- This is a telling time to the hour and half-hour lesson
- This estimation lesson uses the weight of pennies
- Pumpkin Math Riddle
- This Math and Science lesson plan involves creating Favorite Flower Graphs
- This well-developed lesson on the components of a community includes suggested connections to other disciplines
- Young students create number garlands here to begin their exposure to multiplication
- Here's an idea for "Math Skeeball"
- Comic book stories are rewritten here to include numerical content that is then turned into illustrated word problems for peers to solve
- "Conversation Heart Fractions" is a fun idea to add and eat!
- A grouchy ladybug and fun clock manipulatives help us tell time in this lesson
- Levers are the subject of this part of the unit
- This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
- This is an Easter lesson on patterns in art and math
- Here is a prime number chart generating lesson
- Here students truck their products to the Multiplication Garage
- This money idea is on grocery shopping
- Tangrams and fox fairies are the subjects of this intriguing lesson
- Here students use cameras and video to show mathematical operations used in everyday life
- This lesson is on "Math Through Rhythm"
- With Kidspiration and some rhyming skills, students create a multiplication rap video here for "The Fours"
- This is a math lesson on estimation using calculators
- Olympic Opening Ceremonies
- This Expressionism lesson is part of a Thanksgiving project-based multidisciplinary learning plan
- Here's an idea for Greater Than / Less Than Bingo
- Here are some good ideas to get Students involved in getting Parents to Parent's Night
- This lesson looks at Fractions as Part of a Collection
- Here's an idea for comparing different Cup Measurements
- These center activities serve as a delightful introduction to the common garden snail
- This idea has students hopping to answer math problems
- To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
- Another Math lesson on Place Value usinng Paper Strips
- The "Freeze, Pair and Share" strategy is practiced here for note value, addition, etc.
- This Easter lesson is called Egg Wrap and is on Circumference, Measurement, and Estimation
- This is a neat idea where students help make a real "Rhythm Pizza"
- Make a birthday pictograph
- An idea for a lesson on Spatial Reasoning and Directions using human "mazes"
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- This multidisciplinary vacation lesson exercises math problem solving, art, literary, and map skills
- The bookCaps For Saleis used here to explore patterns
- A Valentine's Day idea to do Math with Candy Conversation Hearts
- This is an idea for rounding "bossy" numbers
- This yummy fall math idea uses candy corn to illustrate inequalities
- This 5-minute interval time-telling lesson utilizes "Clocks and More"
- Here's a good money idea - Christmas "ornament" shopping in class
- Students "graph" symmetric and congruent shapes here
- This lesson plan is on melting snow and thermometers
- This part focuses on Safety Equipment needed for some Machines
- This idea is on Oceans and the Math topic of Classification of Seashells
- In this game, students use their bodies to represent rhythms
- A collection of questions for a Math test
- This is a fun song that teaches the values of coins
- This coin collection math activity starts "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
- A Math Activity on Place Value for grades 1 and 2
- The phase changes of matter are studied here by making ice cream in a recloseable plastic bag
- First we look back to before there were any "Machines," and look at Simple Machines like Corkscrews and Screwdrivers
- This is an attributes of shapes game
- Here is a really good sorting lesson
- Here students answer math problems by forming into groups of the appropriate number
- Math manipulatives are used here to show how fractions apply to note values
- This one, called Class Bank, is to help develop Good Habits, Learner Awareness, and Spelling
- Here's a lesson on Place Value using a Place Value Mat
- A Math lesson on geometry using Tangrams
- Here's another Math game, this one on Greater and Less Than
- Children use Geometer's Sketchpad in a center to explore basic fractions and fraction equivalencies here
- This lesson plan is on Multiplication By 2
- This lesson is on adding multiple numbers and is called Butterfly Math Matchup
- This motivational Mad Minute Team Relay game builds both social and math skills
- Here group members throw a softball like a shot put and the averaged length is calculated
- Here's a big Economics Unit that is standards-based and titled "Classroom Business"
- Here is a brief idea for teaching about money and buying products in a store
- This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
- This is an equivalent fraction lesson using sets
- This lesson idea uses insects to help teach how to multiply by six
- This is a Matching Activity with Simple Machines and their Definitions
- This Math Card Game is on Greater Than and Less Than
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- Here's a simple idea for creating a Fact Family City
- "Easter Count" is a lesson idea for Easter on Division and other Arithmetic
- Card Yahtzee is a team building probability game with human cards
- A Geometry lesson called Building a Model of a Dream Home
- Pretzel and marshmallow solid geometric figures are assembled here
- Here's an idea for a Holiday Calendar to countdown to Christmas (or other events)
- An idea for posting a Daily Graph on the board
- This one deals with Magnetic Attraction through Objects
- Force, Motion, and Velocity are the subject of this lesson using Balloon Rockets
- Here's an idea for setting up a class shopping center to reinforce math concepts
- Here is another lesson introducing number sense that uses literature
- In this lesson, students will learn place value by playing poker
- Creating a class birthday quilt from old cards brings the class together, teaches patterns, and how to tie
- An Arithmetic lesson that uses decks of cards
- A Math lesson on Weight and the Estimation of it
- A Place Value and Number Conservation lesson using Coins
- A Math lesson on geometry and measurement
- This is an idea for using old decks of cards for Math Problems
- Here is another math problem solving lesson for "first"
- A Lesson plan on Geometry and Fractions
- Here's a lesson on The Times Table
- Students make a classroom graph showing how many letters are in each student's name in this lesson
- This is an operations and inverses webquest
- Young students make and decorate bean-filled coffee can shaker instruments here
- This is a word problem game idea
- A Math activity on Place Value
- This lesson is about money and the values of nickels and pennies
- This one is on Graphs and involves taking a Sandwich Survey
- This multidisciplinary Rainbow Fish activity idea is perfect for the first day of school
- This is an outstanding multidiscipline integrated unit on Patricia Polacco: A Crafty Author <
- Here is a math problem solving lesson involving shopping
- A Math lesson plan on Place Value in the Hundreds
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- "My Day Timeline" is a lesson on a.m. and p.m. and the events that occur in each
- Called "Book Shopping," this idea helps students learn to make Change from a Dollar
- In this Kidspiration lesson, students make a bar graph of their home activities
- Throwing and counting are the skills practiced in this Oscar's Garbage Can game
- A Lesson on Subtraction that uses area codes
- Students learn the parts of a seed and the effects of lack of sunlight on the growth process in this lesson
- With "Dice Math," you can practice multiple operations on multiple numbers
- This is a perfect Halloween math lesson plan: estimating with pumpkin seeds
- A Geometry Lesson using Tangrams
- Here's a fun idea called "Who Wants To Be A Mathematician?"
- This is an Interactive Place Value lesson
- This multiplication warm-up lesson teaches the idea that real things come in multiples
- Logic Problem - Daniel made a spinner - Is it impossible or certain it will always land on a number less than 5?
- Here is a Halloween 2-digit addition with regrouping worksheet idea
- A Math lesson plan on perimeter and problem solving
- A Math lesson on Measurement
- An idea for teaching Decimal Operations by means of a Restaurant Simulation
- Here's a lesson for Valentine's Day called Love Bugs, used to discuss Bugs
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- We continue with Wedges in this lesson
- Force and Work are discussed in this portion of the unit
- Improve critical thinking and problem solving skills by teaching chess
- Learning multiplication facts with this lesson is as easy as singing "Row, Row, Row your Boat"
- Students learn here that solid figures are real world applicable and can be found all around us
- Students create a Bar Graph of Balloon Colors in this lesson idea
- "Salute" is a fun addition/subtraction fact learning game
- This math lesson involves dates and pennies
- This idea on decimal addition and subtraction is called "Bingo Blitz"
- This idea puts a simple hide-and-seek twist to number fan activities
- This is a student height graph idea involving "snowballs"
- Here's an idea for Adding "Letters" with values assigned to them
- In this lesson, students describe, create, replicate, and extend patterns using websites and Unifix cubes
- This is a money lesson on making and using change
- This graphing lesson is for use around Valentine's Day - graphing the colors of candy hearts
- This is a problem solving activity using the cows and chickens problem
- A Math lesson on Probability
- This brief idea is on graphing with dice
- This lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
- A Math lesson on graphs
- Here is a lesson on money
- This lesson makes rounding simple
- Players take turns shading a selected fraction to make a whole shape in this "Complete Me" fraction game idea
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- Here's a game idea for adding and subtracting
- This good behavior "money" idea solves the "I lost my pencil" problem
- This game on various equations is called "Celebrity Heads"
- "How many fish in the fishbowl" is a commutative property of addition lesson
- "Timez Attack" uses a downloaded computer game to improve multiplication table skills
- Students Add 2 and 3 Digit Whole Numbers in this lesson plan
- This lesson uses the software "KidPix" to teach Geometric Shapes
- A Math lesson plan that uses Music to help teach the Multiplication Facts
- This lesson is on the Commutative Property of Mathematics
- Here is a very useful fractions lesson
- Choosing the right measurement tool and standard unit is the topic of this lesson
- Here's a fun way for getting students involved in Math Problems on Valentine's Day called Mend My Broken Heart
- Here is an integrated thematic Solar System Research Lesson Plan
- Here is another note value math game
- Kid Pix software is used in this fun idea for teaching Geometric Shapes
- A Math lesson on Symmetry
- "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss inspires this self-portrait art and counting project idea
- A multiplication table is filled out by using circles to model multiplication as repeated additions in this lesson
- This circle measurement activity uses bubbles
- This plan is called "How Much Is a Million?"
- In the "Bound-and-Round" game, students use physical activities to retrieve and round numbers
- Here is a clever numerical way to introduce yourself to your students on the first day of school
- "Musical Math" deals with the Values of Musical Notes
- This "Shape Ship" geometric art project also teaches the concepts of slide, turn, and flip
- Here's a great idea for using cheerleader arm movements for practicing angles and parallel lines
- In this multidisciplinary lesson, students form a beautiful bulletin board using rhythm and math
- This lesson plan is on distinguishing coins and their value
- Here is a math lesson that will help students remember their birthdays
- This lesson reviews and reinforces 2 Number Addition
- This is an estimation, counting, and fractions lesson
- This counting lesson idea utilizes tally marks
- This is yet another lesson idea on Greater Than / Less Than
- Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
- Smarties candies are used in this lesson on comparing Fractions
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- A Math Game to help teach subtraction
- A Math lesson that takes advantage of the War Card Game
- This lesson is on researching and charting farm animal information
- A lesson on Texture in Music and Math
- If you want to cause a Revolutionary War in your classroom, try this candy tax lesson
- A lesson on Fractions involving Cuisenaire Rods
- This is a sequencing relay game
- This is just a fun game idea that can go along with Math or Spelling
- This one involves creating M&M; Graphs and Spreadsheets on a computer
- This is a math lesson on addition and subtraction
- This is a lesson on number sense and numeration using literature
- Geometer's Sketchpad is used in this lesson to compare lengths and weights of common classroom items
- Here's a unique Multiplication Game idea that uses a Soccer Ball
- This addition/absolute value lesson plan uses a song to help teach the concepts
- This "Math through Music" lesson encourages mental math and quantity analysis while educating students musically
- Here is a math lesson involving rounding at the grocery store
- This lesson is on Grouping and Place Value using various objects
- This idea on Greater / Less Than uses Cand Bars
- This lesson is meant as an Introduction to Fractions, using manipulative blocks
- Students learn strategies for adding common fractions with like denominators here without provided pictures
- This is a multi-disciplinary lesson on "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and sequencing of events
- A Math Bingo lesson plan on Multiplication
- This first part is on Pilot Jobs and Vocabulary
- A Measurement lesson plan called "Look How I Measure Up!"
- "Quick Draw" is an old-west note value math game
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Polyhedra and Intarsia
- Here's an idea for having students maintain their own Strategy Books
- This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
- A Math lesson plan on 2-Dimensional Objects
- This lesson idea presents a fun way to learn the Multiplication Tables - with a "Military Song"
- If your kids can't relate to the rules of rounding, try this storytelling idea
- In this math lesson, students learn how to save money at the grocery store with sales ads and coupons
- Here is a expanded form place value lesson
- This is a lesson on estimation using pennies
- Here's a collection of 22 math lesson plans covering a wide variety of topics and grade levels
- This Easter Egg Hunt lesson helps to review basic Math Facts
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- This lesson on Venn Diagrams uses the book "A Promise is a Promise"
- This 5-day friendship lesson integrates character education, language arts, math, music and a craft activity
- This is another math lesson on money
- The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
- A lesson plan on Problem Solving with Magnets
- Here is a lesson called "What Time Is It?"
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- A good introductory lesson, this one is on What Attracts and Why
- This "Mardi Gras Tokens" agility game motivates students to improve their math and teamwork skills while boosting cardio performance
- This is a ladybug addition lesson
- Here is a number recognition hide-and-go-seek game
- This musical notes game is called Note Pyramids
- Bring geometry to your students' level with this "Geo-Mat" idea
- Here's a lesson plan on rounding to hundreds
- A Math lesson on attributes and logic
- This lesson is on the North and South Poles of a Magnet
- "The Greedy Grab" is a new idea for teaching greater and less than signs
- Here a fraction circle manipulative is used
- Here's an idea for doing Chalkboard Addition and Subtraction
- After discussing infinity and Fabergé, students decorate paper Easter eggs in this idea demonstrating the "infinite" possibilities of human imagination
- A lesson on Addition and Place Value involving creating a Mathematical Board
- This is a Tic-Tac-Toe game idea that can be used with any math problems
- This is an "Exploration of Fractions"
- This is an even and odd number dice idea
- PowerPoint is used here to reinforce the use of operations and how they relate to one another
- In this "Supermarket Math" lesson, students complete and interpret a KWL chart and food pictograph
- 5 Step Lesson Plan - The Doorbell Rang
- Place Value Bingo
- To Regroup or Not to Regroup?
