Elementary Education - Mathematics

Task 4: Mathematics Learning Segment Overview

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Central Focus:
[Essential Question: How can
you model and write addition
sentences for number pairs for
sums to 10?
Learning Target: I can model and
write addition sentences for
number pairs for sums to 10.]

Lesson 1
Whole
GroupHeads &
Tails

Lesson 2
Station 1How many
Cookies?

State-adopted Content Standards

(or Common Core State Standards, if applicable):
[Common Core: Georgia Performance Standard
MCCK.OA.3
Understand addition as putting together and adding to,
and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking
from. ]

Learning
Objectives

Instructional strategies and

learning tasks

Formative and
Summative
Assessments

[Students will be
able to apply
number sense and
counting abilities in
order to produce
math addition
sentences. ]

[The teacher and students will

play Heads and Tails. In this
game a player toss up a given
number of coins and allow
enough space for the coins to
fall on to the carpet, landing on
both, heads and tails. The
player then counts the amount
of coins that lands on tails and
record this number. Then, the
player counts the amount of
coins that lands on heads and
record this number. Finally the
player should count and
record how many coins there
are total, producing an
addition sentence. ]

[Students will be
able to compose
addition sentences
by acting out the
amount of cookies
placed inside the
cookie jar.]

[In a small group of 5, the

students will be given a
specific number between 1
and 10. The students will place
cookie cut outs on both sides
of the plus sign located on the
cookie jar in order to produce
the given number. The
students will then produce
addition sentences in
accordance with the amount of
cookies placed inside the
cookie jar.]

[The teacher should

observe the students
addition sentence to
check for the following:
-Students number
sense and ability to
accurately count
objects.
-Did the students
include the appropriate
symbols in the
appropriately places
within the addition
sentence?
-Does the number
sentence include three
numbers, a plus, and
an equal sign?]
[The teacher should
observe the following:
-students independent
ability to make numbers
in more than one way.
Are the students able to
compose more than
one addition problem
for a given number?
-Does the students
addition sentence
consist of three
numbers, a plus
symbol, and an equal
symbol?

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Elementary Education - Mathematics

Task 4: Mathematics Learning Segment Overview

-Is the components of

the addition sentence
written in the correct
order or form? ]

Lesson 3
Station 2Spring
Math
Lesson 4
Station 3Ten Hats

Lesson 5
Station 4Adding
Shamrock
s

[Students will be
able to produce
addition sentences
with the use of
diagrams.]

[The students will count the

number of objects given within
a diagram and complete the
addition sentences by writing
in the correct amount of
objects displayed.]

[Students will be
able to illustrate
making ten by
adding objects.]

[The students are given a

specific number of hats that
are displayed in a diagram,
and they are to cut and paste
the amount of hats needed to
make a total number of ten
hats in each given diagram. ]

[Students will be
able to act out a
given addition
problem.]

[The students will be given a

written addition sentence, and
they have to cut and paste the
amount of objects in order to
act out the addition sentence.]

[The teacher will use

this sheet to check for
the students ability to
count objects as parts
and then putting them
together producing a
sum. ]
[The teacher will check
to see of the students
are able to
appropriately add the
correct amount of hats
needed to make an
overall total of ten hats
in addition to the given
number of hats
provided.]
[The teacher to should
look for the following:
-Did the student group
the objects based on
the order presented in
the addition sentence?]

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