Students have greater engagement in learning when it is organized around gathering and using meaningful data.

Today students will focus on the idea that measuring an object using different length units will result in different measurements.

Students continue to measure floor strips with a choice of three different units.

Common Core standards encourage the use of models to build understanding in math. This lesson shows sometimes reluctant 2nd graders that models are helpful tools in solving mathematical problems.

My students have learned how to read and write time. Now I want them to see how important time is for us to organize our lives. I want them to use data charts for schedules and be able to analyze the information.

The ratio table is a tool that students can use to solve a variety of problems.

Students can solve multiplication and division problems quickly by recognizing the relationship between the two operations.

Children will learn the term variable and then work to "attack" a problem using what they know about the relationship between multiplication and division to solve for an unknown.

Have you ever wondered what the magic kingdom would look like on a coordinate grid?

Making connections between art, math, and the real world helps students understand integers in our daily lives.

The number line is a powerful math tool students can use to model their thinking when solving addition and subtraction problems. Use this lesson to help students use the number line to count forwards and backwards from 0 to 30.

Students will learn what it means to represent a number in different ways and will begin to explore decomposing numbers. Included is a detailed lesson plan, link to an online game, worksheet, center ideas, and a "Ways to Make 10" chart.

Understanding place value is critical to the Common Core Standards for second grade. Without a concrete understanding, students may not fully grasp the meaning of the digits.

Understanding how to interpret data by its shape, spread, and center helps students to understand statistics.

SWBAT identify the name of the month, number of the day, and number of the year on a calendar. SWBAT explore math tools, and will demonstrate their ability to count 20 objects.

Students will use the bat houses we built as examples of various quadrilaterals.

This lesson helps build a strong culture of problem solvers, and it can work as an introduction in 1st grade or as a Kindergarten lesson!