2020 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, Joel Lookadoo, shows students ways to better understand math. In this episode, Joel teaches students to compare equations by using number lines and tens sticks. He encourages students to visually represent the equations to have a better understanding of how the equations compare. Accompanying this video is a worksheet that provides students the opportunity to practice comparing equations.
2020 Arkansas Teach of the year, Joel Lookadoo, uses models and drawings as well as written expressions to help students add two-digit numbers. Mr. Lookadoo discusses ways to decompose, or break down, numbers to make the addition easier for students. The “Show What You Know” handout gives students a chance to practice the methods Mr. Lookadoo uses.
In Lesson 17 of Module 4, Topic D, students extend the base ten understanding developed in Topic A to numbers within 200. Having worked with manipulatives to compose 10 ones as 1 ten, students relate this to composing 10 tens as 1 hundred. For example, students might solve 50 + 80 by thinking 5 ones + 8 ones = 13 ones, so 5 tens + 8 tens = 13 tens = 130. They use place value language to explain when they make a new hundred. They also relate 100 more from Module 3 to + 100 and mentally add 100 to given numbers. In Lesson 18, students use number disks on a place value chart to represent additions with the composition of 1 ten and 1 hundred. They use place value language to explain when they make a new ten and a new hundred, as well as where to show each new unit on the place value chart. In Lesson 19, students relate manipulatives to a written method, recording compositions as new groups below in vertical form. As they did in Topic B, students use place value language to express the action as they physically make 1 hundred with 10 tens disks and 1 ten with 10 ones disks. Working in partners, one student records each change in the written method step by step as the other partner moves the manipulatives. In Lessons 20 and 21, students move from concrete to pictorial as they use math drawings to represent compositions of 1 ten and 1 hundred. Some students may need the continued support of place value drawings with labeled disks, while others use the chip model. In both cases, students relate their drawings to a written method, recording each change they make to their model on the numerical representation. They use place value language to explain these changes. Lesson 22 focuses on adding up to four two-digit addends with totals within 200. Students now have multiple strategies for composing and decomposing numbers, and they use properties of operations (i.e., the associative property) to add numbers in an order that is easiest to compute. For example, when solving 24 + 36 + 55, when adding the ones, a student may make a ten first with 4 and 6. Another student may decompose the 6 to make 3 fives (by adding 1 to the 4).
