Curated OER
Counting Back and Counting On
Read aloud your choice of books about counting on and counting back (a list is provided, or tell stories of your own). Your learners will write horizontal equations to portray what happens in the story. They build a paper chain and...
Curated OER
Investigation - The Bakery Shop
Students use manipulatives to establish quantity. By singing a song titled "Five Little Cookies," students determine which strategy to use to find out how many cookies are left in the bakery shop.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Comparing Sets
Students count back with cubes to model subtraction problems. In this subtraction lesson plan, students compare sets of problems and record their results in a table.
Curated OER
Investigation - The Bakery Shop
Students participate in mathematical music and subtraction using their fingers when indicated in the song. In this music/math instructional activity, students count their fingers and pretend their fingers are cookies. Students sing the...