We started out the year with Topic 1. Topic 1 is all about fluently adding and subtracting within 20. Lesson one was Addition Fact Strategies. Students learned about turn around facts and how the addends can be added in any order and they will get the same sum.
Example: 3+4=7, 4+3=7 Lesson two was Doubles and Near Doubles. Students learned that if they know the doubles fact they can quickly figure out the newer doubles fact. Example: 5+5=10 so 5+6=11. 6 is one more than 5 so the sum is one more. 6+6=12 so 6+8=14. 8 is two more than 6 so the sum is two more. The remaining lessons for the topic were all to aid students in adding and subtracting basic facts quickly: Make a 10 to Add, Addition Fact Patterns, Count on and Count back to Subtract, Think Addition to Subtract, Make a 10 to Subtract, Practice Addition and Subtraction Facts, and Solve Addition and Subtraction Word Problems, The math homework card games are a fun way to help student fluently add and subtract and get those math facts memorized. We then moved on to Place Value, Topic 9. Students worked on understanding the value of each number in a place value. For instance, in 325 the 2 means 20 or 2 tens. They also continued learning about standard form, expanded form, word form, and drawing out the place value blocks. We also used place value to help us count patterns. We counted by 10s and 100s from any number: 67, 77, 87, 97, 107.... We will finish up our place value unit this week and then will move on to our next unit which is Double-Digit Addition in Topics 3 & 4. We will use what we learned about place value to add double-digit numbers. Students will start off learning some different methods to help them understand that when adding double-digit numbers they are just adding tens and ones and that place value matters when adding. Once they understand what you are actually doing (what carrying over to the tens place means) when you're adding double-digit numbers, they will learn the traditional way of adding. These other lessons (that might seem confusing to you) are actually great stepping stones to help them understand the relationship between place value and addition.
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To start off the year students learn math games to use with a deck of cards. They learn a game one day and practice it. Then they'd practice it the next day again before learning a new game. Students have learned the games Fishing for Ten, Battle, Odd or Even, Slap, and Salute. These games, along with many others, are what students will do for their math homework once a week. You will be getting direction cards to all the games students can choose from. It's a fun way to practice math skills and to get together as a family instead of worksheets.
Students also started their math warm-ups, Daily Math Boxes, which we are starting out the year doing together. These are a great way to continually review math skills we've practiced and to even get a preview and beginning practice of skills we will be learning during the year. We will do them all together for the first couple of weeks as students get to understanding them and how to do them and then students will do them on their own and we will go over them so they can check their answers and fix whatever they need to fix before math time ends. This week we are also starting our math curriculum Envision. Our first math topic is Topic 1: Fluently Add and Subtract within 20. In this topic students learn different math strategies to help them learn to do their math facts quickly. |
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