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Celebrate the Festival of Lights with these Hanukkah classroom games and activities for elementary students.
Jordan Friedman
Shaped Editor
November 30, 2021
Teach your students about the different ways to describe data, including the concepts of mean (average), median, and mode.
October 29, 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.
Richard Blankman
Shaped Editor
October 26, 2021
Teach students about graphing along the x and y axis on coordinate graphs as a visual method for showing relationships between numbers.
October 22, 2021
Try these fall activities for elementary students in your classroom that put a twist on common fall themes.
Shaped Staff
October 01, 2021
Use these National Hispanic Heritage Month activities and lesson ideas to honor Hispanic American contributions and influences in our society.
Daniel Poremba
Senior Tier II Specialist, HMH
August 27, 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
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
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
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
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