Unit 5, Lesson 6
Red and Yellow Apples
Kindergarten
Preparation
Lesson Narrative
In a previous section, students composed and decomposed numbers up to 9. In this lesson, students first act out a Put Together, Total Unknown story problem, which was introduced in the previous lesson. Then students are introduced to a questionless Put Together/Take Apart, Both Addends Unknown story problem. Red and yellow apples are used as a context so that students can easily represent the story problems with two-color counters (MP2). In the next lesson, students will solve a Put Together/Take Apart, Both Addends Unknown story problem.
- Representation
- MLR8
- Describe (orally) the known and unknown quantities in a Put Together, Total Unknown problem and a Put Together/Take Apart, Both Addends Unknown story.
- Let’s show what happens in a story.
Required Materials
Activity 2
Activity 3
Required Preparation
- Gather materials from previous centers:
- What's Behind My Back, Stage 1
- 5-Frames, Stages 1 and 2
- Make or Break Apart Numbers, Stage 1
Suggested Centers
NoneTeacher Reflection Questions
What connections did students make between the Put Together, Total Unknown story problem and the Put Together/Take Apart, Both Addends Unknown story problem? How did acting out, representing and solving the Put Together, Total Unknown story problem prepare students to make sense of the Put Together/Take Apart, Both Addends Unknown story problem?