Word Problems
Grades: 1-2
Summary: Choose the number of bees you want to add on the flower and then choose the correct number to create word sentences to match the bees on the flower. Use the reveal to check their statements.
How to integrate: Modeled
Subtraction Sentences
Grades: 1-2
Summary: Choose objects to add together to create a story. Check to see if you're correct.
How to integrate: Modeled
Grades: 1-2
Summary: Use the contexts, eg 3 fish at a shipwreck, to relate number stories to sums:
3 fish are swimming near a shipwreck and 4 more fish join them, which is 7 altogether.
3 add 4 makes 7
3 + 4 = 7
How to integrate: Modeled
Grades: 1-2
Summary:Relate subtraction to taking away by using calculations within contexts. Try putting characters in unusual contexts - parrots at the bus stop, fish in a tree...! Ask pupils to record the calculation behind the number story.
How to integrate: Modeled
Grades: 1-2
Summary: Describe and solve problems in different contexts, using number stories.
For example, there are five parrots in this tree, and two more in the other tree... so let's start with 5 and add on the others... how many are there all together?
Try unusual contexts, such as fish at the bus stop or submarines in a tree!
How to integrate: Modeled
Grades: 2-3
Summary: Ask pupils to give various amounts of sweets to the two children, then complete the number sentence below.
Challenge pupils to write the problem as a calulation (eg 6 - 3 = 3), then check with the reveal.
Or ask them to show a particular sum, eg 'what is the difference between 5 and 12? How can you show that using the sweets?'
How to integrate: Modeled
Grades: 3-4
Summary: The aliens have landed! Bipods are aliens with two legs, Tripods are aliens with three legs. Pick a total amount of legs you want and figure out how to reach that total using a T-Chart.
How to integrate: Shared
Grades: 2-4
Summary: This site is great to use models to help students understand math problems. There are a lot of different options to choose from. A great tool for students to visualize.
How to integrate: Shared, Modeled, Independent
