Number Sense

Looking for a lesson to teach GCF Greatest Common Factor, and LCM Lowest Common Multiple? This scaffolded lesson walks students through the steps of finding factors and multiples in preparation for more advanced math concepts. Product includes printable...

Looking for a lesson on Opposites and Absolute Value? This lesson uses real world examples to teach terms related to Positive and Negative Numbers, requires students to move points on a number line to show opposites, and find the absolute value of...

Looking for a way to get students working in teams, matching high and low achievers in a fun "get out of your seat and move" way? This review of Order of Operations has 2 different colored worksheets for students to work on problems in the correct...

Looking for a lesson to effectively teach students the order of operations? This lesson explains why we need an order of operations, and gives an acronym to help students remember the order (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally, PEMDAS) The lesson gives...

Looking for a series of lessons that can challenge your students?  Encourage students to explore with numbers in these 3 Box Puzzle lessons. Use as an enrichment activity or to model the Commutative, Associative, and Distributive Properties...

The third in a series, this Box Puzzles digital lesson demonstrates the number properties: Commutative, Associative, and Distributive Properties. Students experiment with numbers to see how they relate to each other and learn patterns that help them...

Students will color in numbers on the Hundreds Chart using the fill color feature on Google Slides. They will be asked to find the first four prime numbers and color them red. Then to locate all of the composite numbers, they will count to find the...

Looking for an extra challenge for your students?  Students will use box puzzles to solve addition of strings of numbers of any length. This is a great lesson to stretch your students, teach them about numbers, or stimulate those students who need...

This lesson on exploring numbers works for students who need more to challenge them, as well as those who need more practice adding and subtracting two and three digit numbers. Students will be so engaged looking for palindromes, they won't realize they...

Students will enjoy exploring numbers in solving box puzzles. They will experiment to see if this method works for different numbers, when one number is a zero, using fractions, integers, subtraction, multiplication, or if their box is a different size...