ALEX Learning Activity

  

Putting It Together

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  This learning activity provided by:  
Author: Michelle Frye
System:Blount County
School:Hayden Elementary School
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 2874
Title:
Putting It Together
Digital Tool/Resource:
Putting It Together - Google Doc
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

This formative assessment can be used to determine if students understand addition or subtraction with numbers up to ten. The activity allows students to explain how they represent addition up to 10 by using pictures, numbers, or words.
  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: K
8. Represent addition and subtraction up to 10 with concrete objects, fingers, pennies, mental images, drawings, claps or other sounds, acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Create representations of the quantities and the actions in the situations using physical, pictorial, or symbolic representations.
  • Explain the representations of the quantities and actions in the situations using physical, pictorial, or symbolic representations.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Expression
  • Equation
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • how to represent addition and subtraction using models, pictures or symbolic representations.
  • how to explain representations of quantities.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Represent quantities and operations physically, pictorially, or symbolically.
  • Use informational and mathematical language to communicate the connections among addition and subtraction.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • both putting together and adding to can be viewed as addition.
  • both taking apart and taking from can be viewed as subtraction.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.K.8.1: Define addition as combining groups of objects.
M.K.8.2: Define subtraction as separating groups of objects.
M.K.8.3: Represent numbers with objects or drawings.
M.K.8.4: Separate sets with nine or fewer objects.
M.K.8.5: Combine objects to form sets up to nine.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Notice same/different and some/all.
  • Subtract one from a set of objects (up to 10 objects).
  • Add one to a set of objects (up to 10 objects).
  • Given a group of objects (ten or less), divide the group into smaller groups in various ways.
  • Given small groups of objects, create larger groups by combining the small groups.
  • Take away objects from a large group to create two smaller groups.
  • Put together two small groups of objects to create a larger group.
  • Establish one-to-one correspondence between numbers and objects when given a picture a drawing or objects.
  • Rote count to ten.
  • Enjoy playing with all kinds of objects.
  • Point to matching or similar objects.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.K.8 Demonstrate an understanding of addition as "putting together" or subtraction as "taking from" in everyday activities, limited to 5 objects.
Learning Objectives:

I can represent addition and subtraction up to ten by using pictures, numbers, or words to show my thinking.
  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:

The teacher will give each student a copy of the Putting it Together formative assessment. The teacher will read each problem and tell the students to use pictures, numbers, or words to solve the problems. The students will use strategies learned to solve the problems. After the students have had sufficient time to think about and draw their answers, the teacher will allow students to share their work and record student responses on a whiteboard or chart paper.
Assessment Strategies:

Teachers will observe student responses to determine student understanding of the concept and skill. You can use the following guidelines to ensure students meet the learning objective.

Check that the student:

  1. can use a strategy to add up to ten.

  2. can use a strategy to count back from ten.

  3. can count on, rather than counting each object.

  4. can use pictures, numbers, or words to explain their thinking.
Advanced Preparation:

The teacher will need the following materials:

  • a copy of Putting it Together for each student

  • whiteboard or chart paper to record student thinking
Variation Tips (optional):

The teacher may allow students to use counters, bears, or other manipulatives to assist with this task.
Notes or Recommendations (optional):

This activity can be used with the following before and during activities:

How Many Ways to Make Ten? (Before)

Balloons (During)
  Keywords and Search Tags  
Keywords and Search Tags: addition, subtraction