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Math for the First Week of School
Are you a classroom teacher of any grade K-12 looking to get your school year off to a great start? Here are some of my favorite free instructional resources for math for the first week of school. Math Activities, Games, and Lesson Plans Week of Inspirational Math from YouCubed has five daily one hour math lesson plans for kindergarten all the way through community college. These are highly engaging and fun activities designed to build a mathematical mindset and to encourage students to keep going “even when work is hard and they make mistakes.”
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