Making Ten Lesson Plan: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Making Ten, and supports the standard of applying properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Ask students:
- What strategies do you already use to help you add and subtract?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Play the Making Ten movie.
- Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it.
TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about making ten while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.
- Draw About It: Draw a picture to solve the word problem.
- Activity: Make fact families for the number 10.
- Talk About It: Complete the number sentences to make 10.
- Write About It: Write your own word problem that has a sum of 10. Challenge a classmate to solve it.
More to Explore
Addition and Subtraction Unit: Continue to build understanding around basic operations by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.
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