A Learning Activity is a strategy a teacher chooses to actively
engage students in learning a concept or skill using a digital tool/resource.
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Phase:
After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:
Give each student a copy of the assessment and 12 counters. (Providing only 12 counters for each student will encourage the use of more advanced representational strategies for solving the first problem.)
Read the first problem to the students and allow them to solve the problem. Encourage them to use models and/or equations to solve.
Read the second problem to the students. Students may use the counters to solve. As students are working, circulate and observe to see if students are using any patterns in their equations (such as 3+4+5 and 3+5+4) that indicate an understanding of the properties of addition.
Collect the assessments and evaluate student models and responses.
Assessment Strategies:
Students should draw a model and/or write an equation to solve the first problem, arriving at the correct answer of 15 animals.
Student answers for the second problem will vary, but all should add to equal 12. Look for evidence of students' use of the properties of addition while creating equations (rearranging addends, friends of 10, doubles, etc.).