Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place
value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between
addition and subtraction.
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How Much Do We Need to Order? | Students are provided the task of determining the total number of students in Kindergarten, first, and second grades in their school. Students will develop a plan to collect the information. Students will create a table to represent the data and find the total number of students. |
Fundraising on a Budget | This Model-Eliciting Activity (MEA) is designed for a second grade level. Students will be working in small groups to figure out what companies to hire for the art gallery to have a successful charity event. The students will be evaluating criteria such as bands for the event, caterers, and artists. Students will need to add money to stay within a budget. They will write their procedure for making their selections.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
Cookie Contest | In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students are asked to decide which factors are important in choosing the best cookie in a cookie contest. Students will take on the role of cookie critics to provide feedback to a teacher whose grade level is deciding which cookie to use for a fundraiser. They will rank order their choices from the best to worst cookie. Students will provide a detailed written explanation for how they decided to rank factors and their solution. They will show their work while adding up to 4 two-digit numbers to calculate the total number of votes.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx |
Birthday Parties 'R' Us | Students will determine which pizza place should be used to cater parties at the Birthday Parties 'R' Us facility given a set of data. They will create a procedure for determining the best pizza place, write an explanation about their procedure, and present their recommendations to the class. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom. |
Rip and Regroup to Add | Students will learn how to transpose a horizontal addition equation with two-digit addends using a specialized vertical place value work mat. Students will "rip and regroup" to help understand how to regroup ten ones as one ten and move toward using a standard algorithm for addition. |
Adding and Subtracting on a Hundred Chart | This lesson is not an introduction to adding and subtracting on the hundreds chart, but rather a practice of strategies to help develop procedural reliability. Students will use the hundred chart to add two two-digit numbers and subtract two-digit numbers from two-digit numbers to reveal hidden designs on the charts. Students will be encouraged to use place value to decompose the two-digit number that is being added or subtracted into tens and ones and then use the structure of the hundred chart to efficiently add the tens by moving up or down full rows before counting on or counting back the number of remaining ones. |
Alternative Addition Strategies | This lesson explores various addition strategies of two-digit numbers. The lesson focus is to encourage students to find and develop a reliable method they can use to add within 100. The lesson includes making an Addition Strategies Mini Booklet, which students can keep and use as a reference tool. |
Is it "Most Magically Magical"? | This lesson is intended to be a cooperative inquiry-based activity used close to the end of second grade. The students will be actively engaged in adding and subtracting numbers within 100 while having fun completing Magic Squares. |
Sweet Addition and Subtraction | This lesson is a continuation of the "Sweet Values" and "Sweet Number Places" lessons also found on CPALMS. It is a different way of teaching addition and subtraction, by continuing a story that started with place value. In this lesson, students will learn to use the place value knowledge gained to solve word problems. |