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Triple Fun Shopping (Addition Task)

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Author: Samantha Wallace
System:Limestone County
School:Cedar Hill Elementary School
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 2750
Title:
Triple Fun Shopping (Addition Task)
Digital Tool/Resource:
Triple Fun Shopping Slideshow
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

This activity is a task designed to introduce addition with three addends. The students use counters to represent the problem and begin developing an understanding of the commutative and associative properties of addition.

  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 1
2. Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20 by using concrete objects, drawings, or equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Compute the sum of three whole numbers using a variety of representations such as concrete objects, drawings, or equations.
  • Explain and justify the answer using the representations.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Concrete objects
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • how to solve for addition by using strategies and understanding the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • efficiently apply strategies for solving multiple addend problems.
  • Use symbols to represent unknown quantities in equations.
  • Accurately compute sums.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • more than two quantities can be combined in a problem.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.1.2.1: Solve addition word problems with sums less than or equal to 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
M.1.2.2: Understand key words in addition word problems.
Examples: sum, all together, how many more, in all.
M.1.2.3: Define addition as combining groups of objects, adding to, or putting together.
M.1.2.4: Represent addition with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
M.1.2.5: Represent numbers with objects or drawings.
M.1.2.6: Use objects to combine groups.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Understand key words in addition and subtraction word problems.
    Examples: all together, how many more, how many are left, in all.
  • Represent numbers with objects or drawings.
  • Separate sets with nine or fewer objects.
  • Combine objects to form sets up to nine.
  • Represent addition and subtraction with objects, pictures, fingers, or sounds within twenty.
  • Understand addition as putting together and subtraction as taking from.
  • Establish one-to-one correspondence between numbers and objects.
  • Rote count to 20.
  • Notice same/different and some/all.
  • Establish one-to-one correspondence between numbers and objects.
  • Point to matching or similar objects.

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M. AAS.1.1 Represent addition as "add to/put together" and subtraction as "take from/take apart" with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, or verbal explanations (limited to 10).


Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 1
3. Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.

Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known (commutative property of addition).
To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second and third numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12 (associative property of addition).
When adding 0 to a number, the result is the same number (identity property of zero for addition).
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Use informal language of properties to justify their sums and differences ("I already figured out that 8 + 3 = 11, and 3 + 8 is just the turn around of that so it must be 11, too.").
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Commutative property of addition
  • Associative property of addition
  • Identity property of zero for addition
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • addition and subtraction strategies.
  • how to form an equation.
  • li>how the commutative property works.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Strategically apply properties of addition in order to find sums.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • the order in which addends are joined doesn't change the sum.
  • numbers may be composed or decomposed in a variety of ways.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.1.3.1: Define addition and subtraction.
M.1.3.2: Recognize properties of operations.
M.1.3.3: Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).
M.1.3.4: Apply signs +, -, = to actions of joining and separating sets. M 1.3.5: Identify fact families to ten.
M.1.3.6: Recognize the value of zero.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Decompose numbers up to 5 using objects or drawings.
  • Compose numbers up to 5 using objects or drawings.
  • Count backward from 5.
  • Count forward to 5.
  • Write numerals from 0 to 10.
  • Represent a given numeral 1 to 10 with objects or drawings.
  • Count forward from a given number 1 to 10.
  • Model joining sets of objects to total 10.
  • Identify plus, minus, and equal signs.
  • Match numerals to objects or drawings.
  • Identify numerals 1 to 10.
  • Count 0 to 10.
  • Add and subtract numbers within 20 using objects, pictures and fingers.
  • Understand key words in addition and subtraction word problems.
    Examples: all together, how many more, how many are left, in all.
  • Represent numbers with objects or drawings.
  • Separate sets with nine or fewer objects.
  • Combine objects to form sets up to nine.
  • Count items in a set up to twenty.
  • Establish one-to-one correspondence between numbers and objects.
  • Using counting, find one less than a number 2 through 20.

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.1.3 Demonstrate "putting together" two sets of objects to solve the problem.


Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to solve a word problem with three addends by using concrete objects.

Students will demonstrate the commutative and associative properties of addition by using concrete objects.

  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
Before/Engage
Activity:

This task is an introduction to addition problems with three addends.

  • Display the slideshow for the class.
  • Students may work individually, with partners, or in table groups to represent the problem using counters.
  • As students are sharing their answers, ask them to explain how they got the total. Did they count all of the counters? Did they start with the biggest number and then count on? (If students are struggling with adding all three addends, encourage them to count all instead of counting up.)
  • Have students help you write the equation to represent the problem.
  • As you go to the next slide, tell students that Peg was really thirsty so she actually bought the slushie before she bought the unicorn and candy bar.  Does that change how much money she spent? Have students use the counters to show their thinking. (Students should be able to rearrange the groups of counters to show an understanding of the commutative property of addition.) Have students write a new equation to represent the problem.
  • Students are also asked if a particular order makes it easier to add. Students should see that adding the unicorn and the slushie (7 + 3) is a "friend of 10" which makes the addition easier (associative property).
Assessment Strategies:

Observe students as they are using their counters to see if they are representing each addend from the problem. Check to see if they are able to combine all three addends successfully.

Observe students to see if they are developing an understanding of the properties of addition. They should be able to rearrange the counters and write new equations while the sum stays the same.


Advanced Preparation:

The teacher will need to display the slideshow.

Each student or student group will need at least 14 counters (or cubes, bears, etc.).

Variation Tips (optional):

The prices and items in the problem can be adjusted as needed.

Notes or Recommendations (optional):

This activity can be used as a stand-alone activity or together with the following activities as a complete lesson:

Letter Tile Addition

Three Addends Assessment

  Keywords and Search Tags  
Keywords and Search Tags: add, addend, addition, associative, commutative