Subtraction From 7-Make Your Own Mini-Booklet

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Subtraction from 7 - Mini Booklet

Subtraction is often difficult for young children. At the beginning of the concrete process, it is helpful to use a variety of hands-on manipulative so your students can visually see and touch the objects during their learning. This activity is easy to prepare and small manipulative are not difficult to gather. Small objects purchased from a store as, The Dollar Tree and 99¢ Store are great to accumulate for many activities.

These are some of the items I have used. Easy to acquire!

This subtraction mini booklet idea can be used for any number and I made this one as my students were having difficulty with 7’s.

First, collect the following:

      *Small salad dressing containers from one of the stores mentioned above. They come in a package of 12. I like them because they are clear and easy for students to see through them.

     *As an alternative, thoroughly clean prescription bottles and put a large sticker on the cap, so it is not obvious what type of container it is.

     *Put 7 identical objects in each container. They can vary with color but the identical objects seem to be less distracting to my students. *If you are using another number, place that many objects in each container.

*For this lesson I used paper clips (2 colors), mini pompoms, erasers, same color buttons, and foam transportation shapes. 

If you want to have more students participate at one time, increase the number of containers with same or different objects.

Place the containers and the booklets in an accessible area. Often the students like to redo the activity with a different object or complete it with a partner. I like to add blank pages to the booklet, as some students love to draw the objects and write their own subtraction equation.

Below is the direction page from the booklet. It gives step-by-step easy directions of how to get started. An answer key is included.

Click on the pages of the booklet to print for your own. An answer key is included.

A big thank you to Whimsy Clips for the cute kids on the cover of the booklet.

Same And Equal Spinners

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The Same - Not the Same

Count the Objects to Compare

Original spinner-same & not the same

I recently found this spinner that I had used many years ago with a Kindergartener who had difficulty understanding and remembering the meaning of the word ‘equal.’ The student wanted to be involved with our more-less-equal team games but I could see there wasn’t confident yet with the vocabulary.

Original spinner-equal & not equal

Simply cut a circle out of construction paper, draw a line through the center and write the words –Same on one half and Not the Same on the other half. Turn the spinner over and you see the words- Equal and Not Equal. When the student had experiences with the words the same-not the same, we used the opposite side with the vocabulary he would need for all the future skills.

 This was my initial spinner with double sides used. All you need is a paper clip in the middle and a pencil holding the paper clip so it is turned into a spinner. 

Equal & Not equal spinner (2)

Same & Not the same spinner (2)

For this blog, I made a copy of all the spinners for you as well as showing you what I initially made in about 20 seconds.

Both spinners on 1 sheet

Select a couple groups of ‘treasures’ or sorting materials you already have in your classroom. Put a group of those objects each in its own small paper bag. I used key and buttons this time.  

Button treasures

 To ensure success starts with the easiest game—the student puts a hand in and grabs some objects from each bag. Then count the number grabbed. Are both of those numbers the same? If the child needs to count and compare 1 to 1, that’s fine at this stage.

Key treasures

How many ‘keys’ did you grab? How many’ buttons’ did you grab? Are those numbers exactly the same? Is 8 the same as 12?  No, they are not the same, so 8 is not the same as 12? 'Let's count to make sure.'

If you wish, go a step further and ask, how could you make the same number of keys as buttons? That will allow you to assess what the learning is so far and help you see what should be the next developmental step to facilitate the understanding of the word equal.

Are you ready to use the other spinner with words –equal and not equal?  Continue with this very easy start and then move to using the spinner with number cards.

Add a number

There are many ways to do this but I usually start with students selecting a number from the stack. Now student selects one of the sorting treasures to use as objects for counting. If they selected the number 13, they would have to count out 13 keys or buttons. 

Number cards 1-15

Number cards 16-30

Spin the spinner to see whether they have to count out the same or an equal number of the other objects. If they spin not the same or not equal, they have to count either an object less than 13 or more than 13.

Now is a great time to reinforce the vocabulary or more and less, if needed. Keep playing and as you play you will come up with other ways to use this type of spinner in your class. Sooo Easy!

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Beginning Addition Stick Book

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Beginning Addition Sticker Book

This is one of the easiest small group addition activities you can imagine. All you need is folded copy paper or folded construction paper, whatever manipulative you have on hand and stickers from the Dollar Tree! I like to provide a number line in case a student, at this point is still uncertain about how they make one of the numerals.

Usually, I try to find enough paper in the scrap bin to fold together enough booklets. If nothing available an appropriate size, fold copy paper into 4 parts and staple together enough pages to make the tiny booklets.

Students add a title and their name

Simple blank tiny booklet

See if you can make the cover out of construction paper and perhaps the inside pages from colored copy paper. This puts a bit of a different take on simply folding white paper to make a tiny booklet. It adds a bit of new interest and something different, which children enjoy.

 Decide the addition sum you want the children to manipulate and explore with this project. This blog shows my students when we make addition equations with 5 objects. I was looking for the formation of the numbers, understanding and use of the operation signs + and = as well as correct use and meaning of math vocabulary – add, plus, equal.

Use number lines if needed for identification and
formation assistance.

The main goal is to have a lively discussion about why and what they are doing! If some are having trouble with the vocabulary or identifying a numeral, please take the time to talk through with examples and having the students be actively talking about their thinking.

Take the time now to assess each student’s understanding and fluency. If a student is not clear on something, continue to engage in a positive way. Being able to use correct vocabulary and manipulate the numbers to make 5 (or whichever number you are doing) is basic and fundamental to the next development skill. It may seem like so much trouble, as you are off your schedule, but that extra 5 minutes will better ensure, that student will be ready to move with the class when you go to a deeper level.

Busy worker!

After we did addition facts of 5, we made a new book called, Beginning Family of 5 Subtraction Book. This way they could see the idea of fact families and number bonding. We used the same manipulative so there would be another tie with remembering the prior addition fact family.

Click the video to see the lesson in action

When we have discussed the terms number family and number bonds, this activity leads to a Number Bonds Book for 5 and placed in the math center as an independent or partner activity. Be sure they have had many experiences as a class about building and manipulating the number bond frames before using as an independent activity or at your math center.

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