Students will add two numbers with sums up to 5 quickly and accurately, working toward automaticity. They will move from using objects and fingers to recalling facts with ease.
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Kindergarten · Fluency Within 5 · question 1 of 3
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Facts within 5 should be instant.
Count on from the bigger addend.
You have 3 crackers. Your brother gives you 2 more. You could count them all again from 1 — but you already know the plate is 3.
Counting all from 1 works, but it is slow, and it gets slower as the numbers grow.
Counting on starts from a number you already trust, so there is less to count and less to lose track of.
Start from the bigger number. 2 + 3 is quicker as 3, 4, 5 than as 2, 3, 4, 5.
To add, start at the bigger number and count on the other one.
Saying the starting number as the first count: 3, 4 for 3 + 2, and answering 4.
The starting number is what you already have. The counting begins with the first NEW cracker: 4.
1 + 1 = ___ — 2. 1 plus 1 is 2.
Let's add small numbers — fast! Two ducks are swimming. Three more ducks splash in.
First, here are two ducks.
Then three more ducks join them.
Let's count them all: one, two, three, four, five!
We can write this as two plus three.
Here's another way to see it. Start at two on the number line.
Now hop forward three times: three, four, five.
We land on five! So two plus three equals five.
Soon, when you see two plus three, you'll just know — five! That's fluency.
While they climb, your page writes one true line to ask about tonight, and a short note each Sunday.
A chessboard has 64 squares — share them out between the 8 rows and each row holds exactly 8.
An example student.
Maya earned 2 stars this week — Interpret multiplication as equal groups, which took 6 answers over 3 days before its star landed 3 days ago and Multiply by 6, 7, 8 and 9. Next up: Divide within 100.
An example week.
14 days of every skill, practice packets, Fluency sheets and up to four students. No card.