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🧮 1st Grade · Math1.OA.C.6Unit 1: Addition & subtraction within 10

Doubles

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🎯 Objective: Students learn doubles facts to 5 + 5 and use them to add quickly.

Lesson outline

  1. Show doubles in real life: egg carton, legs of a spider.
  2. Make a doubles chart together.
  3. Doubles memory game.
  4. Exit: 3 + 3, 4 + 4, 5 + 5.

Lesson 3 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1.OA.C.6

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Add and subtract within 10 using objects, drawings and strategies
  • Use the commutative property (3 + 5 = 5 + 3)

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Add & subtract within 20🖨️ Worksheet: Addition Within 20🖨️ Worksheet: Subtraction Within 20📚 All 1st Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Addition & subtraction within 10”

  1. Counting on to add
  2. Turn-around facts
  3. Doubles
  4. Making 10
  5. Subtract by counting back
  6. Fact families

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