Math Collage

 

We used the Number Pieces app for addition with base 10 blocks. We added our learning target to our collage to Keep Learning on Track...just for you Ana!

 

Working Hard!

Number Pieces Preview

Pic Collage Preview

 

 

Balance the Scale iPad Center

This is one of my math stations. The students go into Balance Math on the iPad and then click new problem. The app will put one or two numbers on one side and they have to add numbers to the other side to make them equal. The sign shows in the middle when they are equal and then the students write the equation on a worksheet. You can make the number sets higher in settings. I absolutely love the visual.



Balance Math Preview

 

Balance Math Worksheet

Counting on Activities

We have been doing a lot of counting on. We started with dominos, moved to a numeral and dot dice and then rolled a dice and counted on...on the hundred chart.

Domino Addition Worksheet

Domino Addition Exit Ticket

Dice Count On

Count on Dice Exit Ticket

Roll and Count on a Hundreds Chart

120 Chart

Roll, Write and Count On:
Click HERE to print a copy.

Next, we chose a double digit numeral card and dot dice to count on:

 

Here is a great app to use with these worksheets as well.

 

Domino Addition Preview

Make the Sum

 

We played a fun game called Make the Sum. We've been learning about ways to make ten, which the students are getting pretty good at but I love this game because it forces them to see ways they can make ten with more than two numbers.

We made a chart to help them see the ways to make ten.

To end the lesson we shared all the ways we made ten with more than two cards.

Click below for the video link to game instructions:

Make the sum link

 

We also played Make 10. It's played just like Memory.

1. In partner's lay out four rows of five cards.

2. One person turns over two cards.

 3. If the cards made a ten they get to keep it and replace the two cards they took from the pile, if they didn't they had to turn them back over.

4. The student with the most cards wins.

 

Ways to make 10

 After learning about Wayne Thiebaud's pop style art we made gumball machines in combinations of ten.

Wayne Thiebaud

Three Machines, 1963

Gumball machine pattern

Gumball machine pattern 2

I just shrunk these patterns to 68% and used a circle punch to make the gumballs.

Missing Addend Kaboom

 

This is fun idea from Teacher Tipster...I used it for missing addends in math. There is a self check component on back as well. It was easy to make and the kiddos loved playing!

Math-terpieces

 

I LOVE this book. It was fun for the students to figure out the different ways to make a number. I put the book under the document camera and we solved the first few pages together and then each student got a paper with the picture on it. The students had circle them on their own, write the math sentence and then share their ideas. It's great practice without the worksheet but I wanted the students to create the math equations.

 

Here is the Picasso page. The students had to come up with six ways to make ten.

 

 

Math-terpieces Worksheet

Here are some of Greg Tangs other books that are perfect for first grade!

 

 

Sight Word/Math Squares

I filled in a dot grid with sight words. In partners the students took turns using two different colored crayons to draw in a line one at a time. When the student made a square they had to say that sight word. If they got it right they got to color in the square, if not they had to leave it white. Whoever had the most squares colored in won.

They loved this game!

We also played with math addition and subtraction problems.

Dot Paper

Towers of Ten

This is a great game from investigations. In partners the students rolled a dice and then got that many cubes of their color. The next student rolled and then added that many cubes onto the tower that was already started. If they had more than ten the students had to break off the extra and then start a new tower until they made three. When they were finished they had to record all the combinations of the three towers on a piece of paper.

Addition Combinations Flip Book

My students are having a hard time with seeing combinations in a different way. I added addition sentences to help them generate ideas and then left the pages blank so they could start thinking outside the box... using pictures, adding more than 1 of a number together, etc. Really the possibilities are endless which I love because it's difficult to fail.

Combinations Flip Book Page 1

Combinations Flip Book Page 2

Blank Flip Book Page