Jumping into Math

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Jumping into Math!!

• Mathematics
• 1st Grade

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Teacher Page

• Content Standard Math
• Creator Shauna Letterman
• Curriculum Objective To look at math problems
  and decide how to use strategies to solve them.
• Other You may read the book Ready, Set, Hop!
  along with this power point.

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Adding is..

• When you put two numbers together.

2 3 5
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Subtracting is when.

• You take things away..
• 3 - 2 1

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Using Strategies.

• Sometimes you have to use strategies to solve a
  problem.
• For instance.

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First, read the problem.

• If a frog had eaten 2 flies and he wants to eat
  5, how many more flies does he have to eat?

Draw a picture
He has eaten 2.
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If he has eaten 2, how many more will make 5?
3 !
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SO..
5-23 This is your number sentence.
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Your strategy was drawing a picture and writing a
number sentence!

• Try this one
• 6 Frogs were chasing flies. 4 frogs went home.
  How many frogs are still chasing flies?
• Draw picture and write the number sentence in
  your journal!

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Was your answer 2?

• If there were 6 frogs
• And 4 went home.
• You would have 2 left!!

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Now, write your own word problem!

• 1. Write your word problem.
• 2. Give it to a partner.
• 3. Partners, read and draw a picture to solve it!
• 4. Check the answer with your partner!