The purpose of this True or False? is to elicit strategies and understandings students have for adding with multiples of 2 and with two equal addends. These understandings help students deepen their understanding of the properties of operations, and gain fluency within 20. These practices will also help students develop foundations for multiplication.
Launch
Display one statement.
“Give me a signal when you know whether the statement is true and can explain how you know.”
1 minute: quiet think time
Activity
Share and record answers and strategies.
Repeat with each statement.
Decide if each statement is true or false. Be prepared to explain your reasoning.
Student Response
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Advancing Student Thinking
Activity Synthesis
“How can you explain your answer without finding the value of both sides?”
Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.See standard 1.OA.6 for a list of mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.