Students will use physical objects, fingers, and drawings to show joining or adding two groups together. They will connect the action of combining to the concept of addition, including writing or interpreting simple addition expressions.
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Represent addition using objects and drawings
Kindergarten · Understanding Addition and Subtraction · question 1 of 3
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12 rungs. A star at the top.
Crosses in all?
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Adding means joining two groups.
The total is how many in all.
You have 5 crackers on your plate. 2 more land. You already know the first pile is 5, so do not start over from 1.
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 + 5 is quicker as 5, 6, 7 than as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
To add, start at the bigger number and count on the other one.
Saying the starting number as the first count: 5, 6 for 5 + 2, and answering 6.
The starting number is what you already have. The counting begins with the first new cracker: 6.
3 + 2 = ___ — 5. Start at 3 — the number you already know — and count on 2: 4, 5.
Let's learn to add! Adding means putting two groups together to find how many we have all together.
First, here are three apples. Let's count them: one, two, three.
Now two more apples come along. One, two.
How many apples do we have all together?
We put the groups together. That's what 'plus' means — joining!
Let's count them all: one, two, three, four, five.
We can write this as three plus two equals five.
Three plus two equals five. We just added two groups together!
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.