WELCOME TO FIRST
GRADE MATH!
In this session you will be learning about what
your child is doing in math and how their
strategies will progress throughout the year.
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Building Numbers and Solving Story Problems (intro)
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Comparing and Combining Shapes (Geometry)
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How Many of Each? How Many in All? (Story Problems)
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Fish Lengths and Fraction Rugs (Measuring)
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Number Games and Crayon Problems (Story Problems)
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Would You Rather Be an Eagle of a Whale (Data)
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How Many Tens? How Many Ones? (Place Value)
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Blocks and Buildings (3D Shapes)
MATH UNITS WE WILL BE TEACHING
THIS YEAR
WHAT ARE WE DOING NEXT?
Our next unit we will be teaching addition and subtraction story
problems. Students will learn to:
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Unpack story problems
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Write an equation
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Pick an appropriate strategy for them
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Solve the problem
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Write the solution
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To unpack a story problem we read
the problem line by line and search
for important numbers and words.
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This is the most important step of a
problem that helps students figure
out if they need to add or subtract.
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LET’S TRY IT!
Aubrey went to the store with her
mom. She bought 7 apples and 5
bananas. How many fruits did Aubrey
buy in all?
Ms. Cor has 12 markers. She gave 8 of
them to Ms. Fell. How many markers
does Ms. Cor have left?
HOW DO WE UNPACK A STORY PROBLEM?
Counting all
Counting on
STRATEGIES FOR ADDITION
Decomposing to make a 10
Decomposing to make a double
STRATEGIES FOR ADDITION
Drawing all
Counting Back
STRATEGIES FOR SUBTRACTION
Decomposing to make a 10
Decomposing to make a double
STRATEGIES FOR SUBTRACTION
Using known equations
Counting up
STRATEGIES FOR SUBTRACTION
WHAT STRATEGY SHOULD MY
CHILD BE USING?
We are encouraging students to use counting
on or counting back strategies. When they
have mastered these strategies and are
double checking their work to make sure they
didn’t make mistakes consistently they will be
ready to move to decomposing.
FUTURE MATH UNITS WILL INCLUDE:
Comparing and Combining Shapes (Geometry)
We learned the attributes of each shape and the names of shapes.
How Many of Each? How Many in All? (Story Problems)
How to solve different types of story problems.
Fish Lengths and Fraction Rugs (Measuring)
Measuring with different units of measurements and figuring out
fractions (fourth and half).
FUTURE MATH UNITS WILL INCLUDE:
Number Games and Crayon Problems (Story Problems)
Addition and subtraction story problems. Making combinations to a specific
number.
Would You Rather Be an Eagle of a Whale (Data)
Graphing data on a bar graph. Comparing data.
How Many Tens? How Many Ones? (Place Value)
Grouping tens to learn place value. How many tens and how many ones are in
a number.
Blocks and Buildings (3D Shapes)
Identifying and describing 3d shapes.
QUESTIONS?