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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
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
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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
Happy spring! Need some engaging in-person and remote classroom activities to celebrate the season? Try these 8 spring activities for elementary students.
Shaped Staff
March 23, 2021
When a composite number (like 36) is written as a product of all of its prime factors, we have the prime factorization of the number.
March 16, 2021
Hop to it! Try these 7 Easter classroom activities for elementary and middle school students. Your class will have fun while sharpening reading, writing, and STEM skills.
Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Editor
March 11, 2021
When teaching students about dividend, divisor, and quotient in division, introduce algorithms that will allow them to divide larger numbers.
March 03, 2021
Teaching absolute value can help students understand the distance of a number on the number line from zero, regardless of the direction from zero that the number lies.
February 22, 2021