In a previous lesson, students solved Add To and Take From, Result Unknown story problems and explained how both objects and drawings represented the story. In this lesson, students solve story problems and compare how different drawings represent the story. Students interpret both drawings that correctly and incorrectly represent the story problem, as well as unorganized and organized drawings. While students are not expected to produce a drawing to represent and solve a story problem in this lesson, students make sense of various drawings, which will help them be prepare to create drawings in a future lesson. The purpose of the Lesson Synthesis for students to discuss how it can be easier to see what happens in the story problem in an organized drawing.
Representation
MLR8
Interpret (orally) drawings that represent an Add To, Result Unknown problem.
Cut out enough 5-frames to make a chart with a space for each student to answer the survey question.
Each group of 4 students needs 2 connecting cubes.
Gather materials from previous centers:
Math Fingers, Stages 1-3
Math Stories, Stages 1 and 2
Subtraction Towers, Stage 1
5-Frames, Stages 1 and 2
Counting Collections, Stage 1
Suggested Centers
None
Teacher Reflection Questions
In the next lesson, all students will be asked to produce a drawing to represent and solve a story problem. How does the work in this lesson and previous lessons lay the foundation for students to create their own drawings?
Standards Alignment
Building On
Addressing
K.CC.B.5
Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.
Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawingsDrawings need not show details, but should show the mathematics in the problem. (This applies wherever drawings are mentioned in the Standards.), sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.