The purpose of this activity is for students to fill in equations to represent decompositions of numbers 11–19 on 10-frames. Students fill in either the total or the two parts in each  equation. When students relate the parts of the 10-frame representations and the equations they reason abstractly and quantitatively (MP2).

• Display the image with 18 dots and the matching equation.
• “How did you figure out what was missing?” (I counted the dots to find out how many there are altogether.)
• Display the image with 16 dots and the matching equation.
• “How did you figure out what was missing?” (I looked for the two parts. There are 10 on the 10-frame and then there are 6 more.)
• “Sometimes the total number of dots was missing. Sometimes the two parts were missing.”

The purpose of this activity is for students to complete equations to represent numbers 11–19. Students may know that 17 is 10 and 7 because of repeated practice in this unit. Students may need to use objects or drawings to represent each number and then fill in an equation. While there are many possible equations to represent each number, students have only composed and decomposed numbers 11–19 as 10 ones and some more ones throughout this unit, which makes 10 + _____ the most likely way for students to fill in the equations (MP8).

• Invite a student who represented 17 on a 10-frame to share.
• “How do the counters and the 10-frame help you fill in the equation?”
• “Where do you see 10 on the 10-frame? Where do you see 7 on the 10-frame?”

The purpose of this activity is for students to choose from activities that offer practice with addition and subtraction, writing numbers, and counting objects.

Students choose any previously introduced stage from these centers:

• Make or Break Apart Numbers
• Bingo
• Number Race
• Grab and Count 
• Tower Build

• “What center do you hope you can keep playing in upcoming lessons? What do you like about that center?”