Parent Activity
Title
Addition Strategies
In the past few weeks, 1st grade classes learned about addition
Parent
Information strategies such as counting on and adding doubles, and adding in any
order.
Benchmark
Objective
Vocabulary
MA.1.A.1.4 – Use counting strategies, number patterns, and models as
a means for solving basic addition and subtraction problems.
For your child to be able to show double facts.
Doubles : Two equal groups make a doubles fact.
Doubles plus one : 2 + 2 = 4 , so 2 + 3 is 1 more, or 5.
Duration
Materials
Procedures
30 minutes
Any type of object (example shoes, carton of eggs, etc.).
Have you child find objects that show doubles facts. For example, he
or she may find a pair of shoes to show 1 + 1, a carton of eggs to
show 6 + 6, or a six-pack of juice cans to show 3 + 3. Ask your child
to say those doubles facts.
Add another item to one of the groups, and have your child name the
doubles plus one fact.
From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers
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Sample
FCAT
Activities
Additional
Resources
and
Information
Write a doubles and a doubles plus one fact.
Answer is:
Literature: Look for these books in the library. Point out example
of doubles and counting on one facts in the pictures.
12 Ways to Get to 11
By Eve Merriam
Aladdin, 1996
From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers
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Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale
By Lily Toy Hong
Albert Whitman and Company, 1993