Lesson Plan

Let's Throw Paper!! Addition Game

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

1

Overview

Students will throw addition problems or answers (on paper) across the classroom and find the matching problem or answer! Students will use mental math to compute the matching answer. Students will quietly walk around the classroom to find the person with the matching paper. Let’s throw math around!

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 1

MA19.1.6

Add and subtract within 20.

Unpacked Content

UP:MA19.1.6

Vocabulary

  • Fluency

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Strategies for finding sums and differences within 20.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use addition and subtraction strategies.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Addition and subtraction strategies can be used to compute sums and differences, and how.
Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 1

MA19.1.8

Solve for the unknown whole number in various positions in an addition or subtraction equation, relating three whole numbers that would make it true.

Unpacked Content

UP:MA19.1.8

Vocabulary

  • Equation

    • Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Strategies for solving simple addition or subtraction equations with one unknown.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • solve simple addition and subtraction equations.
    • Justify and explain their thinking.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • equalities contain expressions that name the same amount on each side of the equal sign, even with quantities unknown.
    Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 1

    MA19.1.13

    Add within 100, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:MA19.1.13

    Vocabulary

    • Compose
    • Multiple of 10

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • how to add within 100 using place vaue strategies.
    • how to identify tens and ones.
    • how to compose two digit numbers.
    • how to decompose two digit numbers.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • add within 100.
    • Model addition problems using visual models.
    • Record strategies for solving addition problems.
    • Communicate the relationship between models and symbolic (numeric) representations.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • relationships between models of addition problems and written strategies of those models can be used to justify solutions.

    Primary Learning Objectives

    Students will be able to:

    • Add and subtract within 20
    • Determine the unknown whole number in an addition equation
    • Use concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and relate the strategy to a written method, and explain the reasoning used.

    Procedures/Activities

    Motivation/Introduction

    1. Teacher will read Counting on Fall by Lizann Flatt.

    Teaching/Learning Activities

    1. Students will play an interactive addition game.
    2. The teacher will say: Math can fall from anywhere, even the classroom!
    3. The teacher will ask all students to stand around the classroom.
    4. The teacher will pass around a basket of balled-up addition problems and answers to the addition problems- all balled up in the same basket. Each student will get one balled-up paper.
    5. The teacher will explain that each balled-up paper is either an addition problem or an answer to an addition problem.
    6. The teacher will instruct students to throw their balled-up paper in the classroom.
    7. The teacher will instruct students to walk around the classroom and pick up one balled-up paper off the floor.
    8. The teacher will explain that the game's objective is to find the matching addition equation or answer. There is only one person in the room that has the match.
    9. Once all the matches are completed. The teacher will allow the students to throw their paper, again, and continue the game.

    Closure

    1. As a closing activity, students can play any of the following online games:

    http://www.abcya.com/addition.htm

    http://www.multiplication.com/games/addition-games

    Assessment Strategies

    Informal Assessment:

    • Oral Assessment
    • Visual Assessment

    Acceleration

    • Turn this game into a Subtraction Game: Teacher will write tally-marks and numbers on half-size copy paper and ball up the papers.
    • Turn this game into a Tally-Mark Game: Teacher will write tally-marks and numbers on half-size copy paper and ball up the papers. Turn this game into a Number Game: Teacher will draw visual representations of numbers and numbers on half-size copy paper and ball up the papers. Example: 5 pigs & #5
    • Student-made game: Once the children understand the game, the students will make addition equations and answers to the equations.

    Intervention

    • Demonstrate the procedure over again as needed.
    • Students with learning disabilities will be provided a designated peer helper.
    • Students with learning disabilities will be provided paper and pencil for solving addition equations.
    • ELL students will be allowed more time to complete assignment. These students are also allowed to work with a partner.
    • ESL students will be provided a model, as well as visual aids. Students work will be modified as well as given extra time to complete tasks.

    Approximate Duration

    Total Duration

    0 to 30 Minutes

    Background and Preparation

    Background/Preparation

    • Teacher will write addition equations on half-size copy paper and ball up the papers. Example: 2 + 6 =
    • Teacher will write answers to the equations on half-size copy paper and ball up the papers. Example: 8
    • *** The teacher needs to make the exact number of papers as the students in the classroom. For example, if there are 20 students, the teacher needs 10 addition equation papers and 10 addition additions to the equations. (If there is an odd number of students in the classroom, the teacher needs to play the game with the students in order for papers to have a match.)

    Materials and Resources

    Materials and Resources

    • Paper
    • Basket
    • Book: Counting on Fall by Lizann Flatt

    Technology Resources Needed

    Computer with Internet access

    Approved Date

    2013-12-17
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