Unit 2, Lesson 1
Represent Story Problems
Grade 1
Preparation
Lesson Narrative
Students revisit these familiar problem types and the different ways the actions of the story can be represented. In the process, students reveal what they understand about the operations of addition and subtraction. In these problem types, the quantities can physically be joined or separated. This action leads to the resulting quantity. When students connect their representations and what they understand about addition and subtraction back to the story problem and explain the connections, they model with mathematics (MP4).
In the Lesson Synthesis, students share different ways they can represent a story problem. Collect student ideas on chart paper and save the paper for reference in future lessons.
- Action and Expression
- MLR8
- Represent the actions of Add To and Take From, Result Unknown problems in different ways.
- Let’s make sense of story problems.
Required Preparation
- Gather a piece of chart paper to record student ideas in the Lessons Synthesis. Save the paper for reference in future lessons.
Suggested Centers
NoneTeacher Reflection Questions
Reflect on what you noticed students do and say during the lesson as they represented and solved the story problems. How did students demonstrate their understanding of addition as adding to and subtraction as taking from?