Lesson: Addition Put Together

Lesson Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Teacher: Deniece White
I.

Grade: Kindergarten

Content and Standards: MCC.K.OA.1 Represent addition and subtraction with

objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, (e.g., claps), acting out situations,
verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

II.

Prerequisites: The student should understand addition as putting together and

adding to, and understand subtractions as taking apart and taking from

III.

Essential Questions:
a. How can you show addition as putting together?
b. Does the order of addends change the sum? How do you know when your
answer makes sense?
c. How can I represent and solve problem situations using objects, pictures, words
and numbers?
d. Why is it important that I can build the number combinations for the number 5?
10?

IV.

Instructional Objective: The student will:

a. Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand
subtraction as taking apart and taking from
b. Use expressions to represent and understand basic addition and subtraction
c. Create and solve addition and subtraction problems
d. Develop and/or reinforce addition and mathematical thinking skills

V.

Instructional Procedures: In a whole group, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

will be read to students. As the addition or subtraction stories are

told, the children will act out the stories using a variety of
manipulatives to represent the people, animals, or objects in the
story. The minus sign will be read as minus or subtract but
not as take away. The plus sign will be represented as a plus

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sign or and. Once the students are comfortable acting out the
stories and demonstrate proficiency with acting them out, the
students will work in small groups to work word problems.
a. Group 1 - Learning activity:

Word problems will be taken from

an online math game and changed as necessary to reflect the

addition, put together concept using number up to 10. Copies of
the problems will be printed as a recording sheet for the
students to represent their thinking on paper. The instructional
outcome of the lesson is for students to not only solve the
problem, but to also be able to explain their mathematical
thinking through pictures, words, and numbers as to how they
arrived at their solution. The focus of the lesson speaks more to
the process, than the product.
b. Group 2 Center Learning Activity: Students work with animal

shaped cookies as manipulatives to create addition and

subtraction word problems. (doubles, finding five or ten,
drawing pictures, acting out the story with manipulatives, put
together, take apart, separate/decompose, compare,
join/combine, etc.).Work sheets are used to record their answers.
c. Group 3 Center Learning Activity: Students use a star worthy

spinner as manipulatives to create and answer addition and

subtraction problems.
VI.

Materials and Equipment:

a. Teacher: Sample problem item sheet to use as a guide
b. Teacher: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
c. Teacher / Student: Promethean Board
d. Teacher: Computer for online practice
e. Student: 10 animal cookies for each student

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f.

Students: Other math manipulatives as needed

g. Students: Recording worksheets

VII.

Assessment/Evaluation: The students level of understanding will be determined by

their ability to understand:
a. What counting strategies were used to separate or combine information?
b. What the story, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff asking them to
find out?
c. What strategy will they use to solve the given problem?
d. Is there another way to solve the problem?

VIII.

Differentiation: Individualized Activities:

a. Extension: As students become proficient with solving each type of addition and
substration structure, encourage them to write their own problems for others to
solve.
b. Intervention: Students may work with smaller numbers within 5 so they can
practice using efficient strategies to solve the problems.

IX.

Technology: A Promethean Board will be used to display online Early Math

problems (Bugabaloo Shoes Addition)
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/bugabalooShoes.htm and
Math games:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fruitshoot/fruitshoot_addition.htm

X.

Self-Assessment As the lesson progresses the students ability to use expressions

to represent and understand basic addition, create and solve addition problems, and
develop and/or reinforce addition and mathematical thinking skills will be reviewed for
ongoing and future changes to the instructions based on student observation during
whole, small, partner, and/or individual work to further student learning. Additionally,
the following questions will be considered to determine the level or extent of the
students understanding of the instructional outcome.
a. Can students separate objects from a larger set of objects?

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b. Are students able to explain what happens when some objects are removed from
a set of objects? Added to a set of objects?
c. Can students explain how to find out what is left when one quantity is removed
from another?