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In this lesson, students will explore the parts that make up solid figures, including edges, faces, and vertices.
October 14, 2021
These ELL strategies for math instruction will help you with teaching math to English language learners and supporting math learning for multilingual students.
Shaped Staff
September 10, 2021
With this math lesson, you can teach students about coordinates, integers, coordinate planes, and functions on a graph.
September 01, 2021
Teach students about the different types of polygons in mathematics, which can be described as flat, closed figures with three or more sides.
August 10, 2021
A place-value system is one in which the position of a digit in a number determines its value, and a place-value chart is a way to make sure digits are in the correct places.
July 27, 2021
These math intervention strategies for struggling students provide lessons, activities, and ideas to support Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 math students who are two or more years behind grade level.
Shaped Staff
July 14, 2021
In a special Olympic edition of the Math at Work web series, paired with activities based on the Olympic Games, students will learn how important math is to the world of sports.
July 13, 2021
Teach students about plane shapes, or closed, two-dimensional figures, and solid shapes, which include many of the everyday objects with which students are familiar.
July 12, 2021
Five routines are provided to help math teachers establish routines and promote mathematical discourse this school year. The routines consist of four Talk Moves and one language routine.
Richard Blankman
Shaped Editor
June 22, 2021
In this lesson, use factor trees to teach students the concept that a composite number is written as a product of all of its prime factors.
June 21, 2021
Find free teaching resources. Explore fun classroom activities, lessons plans, downloadables, and videos for Grade K–12 kids to keep learning and growing at grade level.
June 16, 2021
Use this lesson to teach students about rational numbers, including decimals, fractions, and integers.
June 03, 2021
These 10 Olympics activities for elementary and middle school students will let them sharpen their math, social studies, and writing skills.
Shaped Staff
May 27, 2021
Use this lesson to teach students about the order of operations: complete operations in parentheses, multiply and divide from left to right, and add and subtract from left to right.
May 07, 2021
Try these fun Memorial Day math activities to celebrate the holiday with your students using Memorial Day-themes games, lesson plans, and activities.
Shaped Staff
April 16, 2021
Explore fun 5th grade math games and activities to bring to your math classroom. These include quick warm-ups, complete lesson plans, and ways to ensure all students can become math experts!
Nicole Kirksey
April 12, 2021
Use these financial literacy lesson plans and activities for middle school to teach students about topics ranging from salaries to wages to creating a personal budget.
Shaped Staff
April 01, 2021
Use this video to teach numbers and expressions in math class by investigating how different numbers look around the world and throughout history at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richard Blankman
Shaped Editor
March 29, 2021