TeachersFirst's Numbers & Operations - Grades K-2
Explore this collection of resources for grades K-2. Use these resources to meet the NCTM standards in the area of Numbers & Operations. Help young students grasp the beginning concepts of counting, numbers, and basic operations. Many of these tools are ideal for use on your interactive whiteboard, math computer learning station, or in your BYOD classroom. Share these resources on your class website for students to use both in and out of the classroom.
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NCTM Illuminations Numbers & Operations Resources PreK-2nd Grade - NCTM
Grades
K to 2
tag(s): number lines (33), number sense (71), numbers (120), operations (74), preK (246)
In the Classroom
Keep this site in your professional favorites to find supporting technology and activities for teaching numbers and operations. As you find practice or extension ideas for student use or at home reinforcement, share specific links on your class web page or classroom computer center for students to access independently or as you assign them for needed practice. The full site can be overwhelming for most parents, so share the specific areas that fit your curriculum.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Peg & Cat - PBS Kids
Grades
K to 4tag(s): addition (126), fractions (159), geometric shapes (131), number sense (71), numbers (120), operations (74), preK (246), subtraction (108)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a learning station or center. Be sure to include a link on your class web page for use at home. Ask a volunteer to come into your classroom to help students make crafts or fix a recipe from the site. Film your students discussing math concepts and share them using a tool such as SchoolTube, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Salamanders - Crispin Salamander
Grades
K to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), division (98), geometric shapes (131), measurement (125), money (119), multiplication (121), number sense (71), numbers (120), place value (34), preK (246), substitutes (27), subtraction (108), time (92), worksheets (68)
In the Classroom
Although there is relatively heavy advertising on this site, the many resources make it worth a look. Take advantage of the free worksheets on Math Salamander for use with students needing additional practice, to send home when parents request additional work, or to keep in your substitute folder for quick practice activities. Be sure to share a link on your class page for parents to access at home. Create a link to online interactives on your classroom computers for use as a math center.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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4 Win-Win Math Games - Marilyn Burns
Grades
K to 5tag(s): addition (126), base ten (5), game based learning (167), mental math (18), multiples (15)
In the Classroom
Add these activities to your toolbox of math games for classroom use. Take advantage of the tips to teach one at a time and create a list of math game-like activities that students know. These are perfect for differentiating instruction. Adjust numbers used in each for different groups of student abilities. Use as one of your station activities. Teach a parent volunteer how to play these game-like activities and use for tutoring sessions. Be sure to share a link to this PDF with parents to play at home. If your school holds a math night, these are perfect for use! Share a link to this article on your class website or print and include with your class newsletter.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Early Math Counts - University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education
Grades
K to 1tag(s): addition (126), counting (58), data (141), geometric shapes (131), measurement (125), number sense (71), numbers (120), preK (246), subtraction (108), time (92)
In the Classroom
Be sure to bookmark this site as a resource for lesson ideas in all math content areas. Although the ideas are for pre-K, some of the activities will translate even into first grade. Share a weekly activity with parents for at-home math learning. Find many resources here for your early childhood classroom. Use some of these ideas to create learning centers in your classroom. Special ed teachers will also find helpful ideas for their below-grade level and very concrete learners.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sheppard Software: Free Online Learning Games - Sheppard Software
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), alphabet (48), alphabetical order (8), animal homes (58), animals (268), capitalization (10), capitals (15), cells (77), colors (62), continents (31), counting (58), countries (68), decimals (86), dinosaurs (38), division (98), elements (32), endangered species (28), equations (118), estimation (34), fractions (159), geometric shapes (131), grammar (141), integers (22), landforms (37), life cycles (20), measurement (125), money (119), multiplication (121), number lines (33), number sense (71), numbers (120), oceans (134), order of operations (29), parts of speech (42), patterns (61), periodic table (43), place value (34), puzzles (143), states (120), subtraction (108), time (92), vocabulary (231), vocabulary development (91)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site to use as a resource for computer center games and activities throughout the year. Share curriculum-related resources on your interactive whiteboard or projector. This site could work well in a BYOD or 1:1 classroom. Share with parents as a resource to use at home or as a summer skills review and refresher.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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MobyMax: Complete K-8 Curriculum - MobyMax.com
Grades
K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), assessment (126), classroom management (133), differentiation (71), division (98), fluency (23), game based learning (167), multiplication (121), subtraction (108), vocabulary (231), vocabulary development (91)
In the Classroom
Create a classroom account. Use MobyMax during centers, for nightly homework, or computer lab time. Share with parents as an excellent resource for practicing math, reading, writing, grammar, science, and vocabulary skills at home. Use the pre-testing features at the beginning of the school year to get students started at the correct levels. Use this tool to differentiate for all students. Your gifted students can pretest out of material already learned and receive activities and instruction at their individual level. Be sure to bookmark this site to use with all levels of students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Doorway Online Learning Activities - Philip Whittaker and Thomas Lee
Grades
K to 3tag(s): addition (126), alphabet (48), counting (58), keyboarding (29), Online Learning (38), phonics (47), preK (246), sounds (44), spelling (93), subtraction (108), time (92)
In the Classroom
If you have computer stations, you may want to set up different areas of this program to allow students practice time after instruction. Use the program with the entire class by putting an area of the program up on your projector or interactive whiteboard and having small groups of students decide what the answer should be. Post the link to this program on your website for students to practice at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Curriculum Corner - Jill McEldowney and Cathy Henry
Grades
K to 5This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), back to school (63), behavior (42), biographies (96), charts and graphs (165), data (141), division (98), elections (77), guided reading (32), literacy (98), magnetism (34), money (119), multiplication (121), narrative (15), organizational skills (88), plants (135), poetry (185), problem solving (219), readers theater (10), reading strategies (87), rocks (35), subtraction (108), time (92), writers workshop (33)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a lesson resource throughout the year. This is a great site to peruse over the summer or use for back to school planning. Use this site to learn more about Common Core. Print the "I Can" checklists for use in student folders as part of your yearly assessment. Send a copy home to parents so that they see the yearly standards and goals for each subject.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Coloring Squared - Cameron Krantzman
Grades
K to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), counting (58), decimals (86), division (98), fractions (159), multiplication (121), operations (74), percent (58), place value (34), subtraction (108), worksheets (68)
In the Classroom
Not every math solution is black and white. Add some color to your teaching and review. Coloring Squared activities are great for station work, enrichment, or support. Students can write short stories using their picture for a cross-curricular activity. Final pictures are great for math bulletin boards. Looking for assignments for students to complete after their math work is finished? Coloring squared will keep the students engaged. Send this link home for students to use (and print) both in and out of the classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Centers and Games - Shari Sloane
Grades
K to 4This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), money (119), preK (246), probability (93), substitutes (27), subtraction (108)
In the Classroom
Use ideas provided on the site for math centers in your classroom. Share this link (or specific activities) on your class website). Choose a game or two to included in your substitute folder for an easy math activity while you are gone.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Virtual Number Rack - Math Learning Center
Grades
K to 4tag(s): addition (126), counting (58), division (98), manipulatives (8), multiplication (121), number sense (71), numbers (120), operations (74), preK (246), subtraction (108)
In the Classroom
View the virtual number board together as a class (or a center) on your interactive whiteboard or projector to practice counting and basic operational skills. Use this with younger students learning to count to 10 or 100. Create a link on classroom computers for students to explore and practice on their own. Share a link to the site on your class website or blog for students to practice at home. When finished, have students draw the problems they created and include the appropriate number sentence for each drawing.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Oxford Owl Maths - Oxford University Press
Grades
K to 5This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), counting (58), multiplication (121), numbers (120), preK (246), subtraction (108), time (92)
In the Classroom
Include this link on your class web page for students and parents to use as a reference. Share the activities on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use this site for math learning centers/stations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Turtlediary - Learning Games for Kids - Turtlediary.com
Grades
K to 3This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), alphabet (48), alphabetical order (8), colors (62), counting (58), dinosaurs (38), gravity (41), human body (90), life cycles (20), map skills (56), phonics (47), preK (246), puzzles (143), subtraction (108)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a resource for learning games, videos, and read-aloud books. Demonstrate the activities on your interactive whiteboard; then create a link on classroom computers for students to try on their own. Share this link with parents on your classroom website or newsletter as a resource for practicing math and reading skills at home. Use videos from the site to introduce science lessons and concepts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Study Ladder - Study Ladder
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): factoring (25), fractions (159), homework (33), iwb (32), literacy (98), negative numbers (12), number sense (71), numbers (120), prime numbers (25)
In the Classroom
This site is perfect for use with interactive whiteboards, download and use activities to supplement current classroom curriculum. Create an account and set up student accounts for students to use on classroom or computer lab computers. Take advantage of the progress reports to track and monitor student progress within the site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Learn With Math Games - Learn With Math Games
Grades
K to 9This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), counting (58), division (98), multiplication (121), printables (36), subtraction (108), worksheets (68)
In the Classroom
Use the site as a resource to find fun activities to supplement Math topics being taught in class. Create a link to games on classroom computers. Share the Math Tricks with students to help with learning basic Math facts or to use tricks during Open House or Math Nights at school.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ICT Games - James Barrett
Grades
K to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), money (119), patterns (61), preK (246), subtraction (108), time (92)
In the Classroom
Make a shortcut to this site on classroom computers and use it as a center. Include a link to the site on your classroom website or blog for student to practice at home. This is a great site for students to use for additional practice on a skill that is difficult. Make your interactive whiteboard a student-run center for student partners to practice as they think aloud with each other. Or use this site for enrichment for your highly able students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Nook - MathNook
Grades
2 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (126), division (98), money (119), multiplication (121), operations (74), subtraction (108), time (92), worksheets (68)
In the Classroom
This activity would work well for individual or pairs of students in a lab or on laptops. Create a link on your class website or blogs for students to access activities from home. Use the "key" at the bottom of the page to decipher what skills would be useful for your students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fuel the Brain
Grades
K to 5tag(s): fractions (159), money (119), numbers (120), preK (246), puzzles (143)
In the Classroom
The interactives are perfect to use on interactive whiteboards or projectors. Use activities as an introduction to new units such as making change, counting on the number line, or recognizing numbers shown with base 10 blocks. Save this on your desktop on all of your classroom computers. List this link on your classroom website or blog. This is excellent enrichment and/or advancement for gifted students. It could also be used for extra practice for struggling students. This site is definitely one to save and revisit often.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Primary Resources Math - Gareth Pitchford
Grades
K to 6tag(s): addition (126), measurement (125), subtraction (108)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the interactives, printables, lesson resources, and presentations. A few activities include tasks for an interactive whiteboard or projector and others provide handouts or reproducible activity pages. Be sure to save this site in your favorites, there is lots here to explore. Also provide this link on your class website. A great site to have parents use with their student as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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