Practice Basic FactsUnit of Study 3: Basic Facts and RelationshipsGlobal Concept Guide: 1 of 4

Content Development Building basic fact fluency is essential to students’ future success in multi-digit addition

and subtraction. Forced rote memorization and frequent timed tests are INEFFECTIVE and yield poor

results long term. Avoid focusing solely on KEY WORDS and displaying anchor charts that have key words.

Key words can cause misconceptions. Focus on actions in the problem rather than key words.

Emphasis should be on the strategies students can use to fluently solve basic fact problems.

Teachers should create an anchor chart with students to record the various strategies as they are introduced.

Students need to discover that related addition and subtraction facts share the same whole and parts. Both problems have 2 parts and a whole. (See TE 141A About the Math)

1. Help children develop a strong understanding of the operations and of number relationships.2. Develop efficient strategies for fact retrieval through practice.3. Then provide drill in the use and selection of those strategies once they have been developed. VandeWalle p. 157For more information view the Problem Solving Mini PDM located in the elementary math icon and attend the M.E.A.T.Y. training : “Place Value and Basic Facts”.

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Day 1 Essential question: What can I do to make a word problem easier to understand? Problem solving should focus on making meaning of word problems through reading

the problem, rereading, recording important information, using graphic organizers, acting out the problem, modeling the problem, focusing on the question, identifying missing information.

Engage students with problems like:Lesley had a jar of pickles. She ate some pickles.

Use this sample problem to get students to start thinking about the story. Teacher facilitate discussion about the story, the reasonableness of an answer, whether there is an increase or decrease in the pickles, what a question might be, what students notice or wonder. Students could show the action using manipulatives or by drawing a bar model. Students could write a sentence for a “solution” like: There are ___ pickles left.

Jana had some pencils. Linda gave her a few more pencils. Adam had red and blue toy cars. Some were red. How many are blue?Lucy has 2 apples. Julie has 5 apples. How many more does Julie have than Lucy?Sean bought a bag of jellybeans. Stephanie ate 5. There are now 7 in the bag. How

many jellybeans did he buy?Teacher can go back and use the previous problems but add numbers in the story.

At the end of Day 1 students should use strategies to understand the actions in word problems.

Sample problem solving graphic organizer

Sample picture/model solutions

Day 2 Essential question: How can I write a number sentence to match the actions

in the problem?

Have students model using manipulatives the following problems and then write an equation to match.

Sample Problem Solving Scenarios

Teachers should focus on highlighting students who use problem solving strategies from the previous day. The focus still should be on making sense of problems but students will also create a number sentence that matches the story problem.

By the end of Day 2, students will be able to write a number sentence to match a story problem.

Sample Anchor Chart

Day 3 Essential question: How are addition and subtraction related? Students should use manipulatives to solve. Engage: Mr. Brown hiked 5 miles in the

morning and 6 miles in the afternoon. How many miles did he hike? Mr. Brown hiked 11 miles. If he hiked 5 miles in the morning, how many miles did he hike in the afternoon?Facilitate discussion about how these two problems are related. Continue focusing on problem solving strategies but also look for strategies that students are using such as doubles, doubles plus one, fact family, part-part whole, number lines, etc. Highlighting the use of part-part whole model and number line will be helpful to emphasize the relationship and for future problem solving. Encourage students to show how they could use different strategies to solve the same problem.

Additional sample questions: Sally had seven cookies for lunch. At school, she ate some and now there are four

cookies left. How many cookies did Sally eat? Questions are written to facilitate a discussion about how addition and subtraction problems are related. Teacher should highlight a student that solved with addition and another student that solved with subtraction to show the relationship. Have students write a number sentence to solve this problem using both an addition and subtraction equation.

Day 3 continuedDifferentiate by allowing students to solve word problems, p. 140 or have students create addition and subtraction word problems when given a number sentence.

Word problem worksheet- Problems 1, 2, and 5 can be solved with addition and subtraction. Encourage students to solve both ways. Problem 1 could be solved: 12-7= ___ or 12=7 + ____ . In problems 3 and 4, the story part is the same but the questions are different to encourage students to focus on the question and make sense of the problem.

By the end of Day 3 students will be able to explain how addition and subtraction are related.

Enrich/Reteach/Intervention

Reteach p. R23, R26, & R27 can be used in a small group with manipulatives and teacher

scaffolding to support learners struggling with these concepts. Teacher should emphasize modeling and student justification.

Animated model from Think Central – relating addition and subtraction Triangle flash cards to help students see the relationship between addition and

subtraction.

Enrich Enrich TE p.137B Students who have mastered the content challenging them with multistep word

problems.10 children went to the movies. How many were girls? How many were boys?Two children were sharing 8 slices of pieces. How might they have shared it?Adam and Linda ate 9 cookies. Adam ate 3 more than Linda. How many did they each at?