Addition Facts 12-15

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Addition Facts 12 -15

Task Cards and Graph

Sort the addend cards and find the sums

Has this ever happened to you!

Several years ago, I had a student who loved fish! However, he didn’t have the same love for math. I tried hands-on activities of every sort to get him involved but to no avail. Check out the full product in my TPT store, Math Math Magic

                                                

Finally, in the middle of the night, it came to me---a math game with fish! At that time of the year, we were working hard on our math facts to 15, so I wanted to come up with something to practice those facts. The goal was to make something simple to prepare, use, and be able to utilize the activity from year to year repeatedly.

Fish Addend Task Cards

The activity has 20 addition task cards, a graph for recording and a graph for placing the card responses, a recording sheet, and answer keys. 

Cut out the fish addend cards and place them in a baggie. If you want to have multiple copies, place each set in a baggie. If your printing needs are limited, use the black & white fish cards. Printing copies of the graph with the sums at the top and the recording sheet can be used for this and other activities.

Graph Response Sheet

There are several options in which to use the addend cards, which extend the enthusiasm and uses of the cards. One option is to place the task cards on the graph under the correct sum and have a partner use the graphing answer key to check the work. Another option is not to use the graph sheet but to only use the recording sheet.

Recording Sheet

Have a partner check the job by using either of the two answer keys.

When we reviewed tally marks, I had the students make a tally mark on the fish graph for each sum on a card.  

The story has a happy ending! The student suddenly loved practicing the math facts and repeatedly asked to play the game. It was interesting to watch the student make up other math games with the cards-such as adding 1 more, 2 more, subtract 1, subtract 2 from the sum of the addends.

If you have a student who loves fish, ocean animals, etc., perhaps this is just the game that will make him/her practice those trick math facts!

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Comparing Two-Digit Numbers

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Comparing Two-Digit Numbers

Snowmen Task Cards

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This post has a variety of winter activity options to be used as small teacher-led groups, partner work, independent activity, or in your math center. At the end of the unit, use the true or false worksheet as an assessment tool. Check out the full product in my TPT store, Math Math Magic. 

It is the perfect time of the year to use this fun snowman activity, which reinforces your student’s practice of determining which sign, <  >  or  = should go in the expression to make it correct. My students always get a laugh out of the snowmen graphics. I had students make new sets of the snowmen-some with shovels in their arms, and another was holding an elf!

What extension ideas can your students create?

Before using the snowmen task cards, be sure your students understand the difference between the equality signs <   >   =. I wrote in an earlier blog post some tips that might be helpful to students about the signs. The blog post was titled,  'More-Less Spinner Game.'

I have included a hundred’s chart as some of your students may benefit from using the chart as a visual tool.

Snowman Hundred's Chart

Print the task cards on stock or heavy construction paper for durability and longer use. Laminate all the cards (4 per page) and cut these cards along the dotted lines. Also do the same also for the mini equality cards ( < > =). There are three varieties of these cards, as discussed in the optional ideas.

Black & White Task Cards

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Task Cards in Color

Optional Idea 1

1. Write the correct equality sign on the laminated cards.

2. Students record their answers on the recording sheet

3. Responses can be checked in 2 ways – by using the answer cards and or the recording answer key sheet.

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4. You may wish peers to check each other’s work or select another method of monitoring their responses.

Optional Idea 2

Equality Sign Cards

1. Use the mini equality cards (<  >  =) instead of writing the signs on the card. Students place a correct sign on each card.

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2. There is a set of the mini equality cards that have the words below the equality sign as a reinforcement tool if needed. There have been occasions where I wanted a child to start seeing the words to facilitate a visual recall better. You may have students who may also benefit from this tool. 

3. Students record their answers on the recording sheet.

4. Peers can check each other’s answers either by using the answer key cards or the recording answer sheet.

Optional Idea 3

1. Having students make their own set of cards is another way my

Make Your Own Numbers and Equality Signs

students love to use these cards. Students use the blank set of cards and put in their own numbers and equality signs to match.
2. Ask a peer to check the work.

Optional Idea 4

1. The true or false cards or the single worksheet can be used as both a follow-up sheet and as an assessment tool.

This posting shows only some of the full product.  If you order the activity, this is what you will be getting:

•Total of 28 color and black & white task cards in which students compare two-digit numbers. Students show the comparison by writing or placing the equality sign  (<  >  or =) on the task card.  Cards represented are: 

•Four cards with the = sign, 12 cards with the < sign, 12 cards with the > sign

•Answer key cards in both color and black and white.

• <    >   =   equality mini-cards to place on the cards - an option other than writing the sign on the card (color and black & white)

• An additional mini-card sheet that has the words---more, less and equal under the equality sign

•Make your own comparison number cards (color and bl/w)

•A recording sheet and answer key

•A true or false assessment worksheet sheet with the answer key

•A hundred chart

•Directions and suggestions

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