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🧮 1st Grade · Math1.NBT.C.4Unit 8: Adding & subtracting with tens

Two-digit story problems

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🎯 Objective: Students solve story problems with two-digit numbers and explain their strategy.

Lesson outline

  1. Read a problem: 24 kids and 10 more arrive.
  2. Solve with blocks, chart or number line.
  3. Share strategies in a gallery walk.
  4. Exit: solve one problem and explain.

Lesson 5 of 5 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.NBT.C.4

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Add a two-digit number and a one-digit number or a multiple of 10
  • Subtract multiples of 10

✅ 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: Place value to 120📚 All 1st Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Adding & subtracting with tens”

  1. Adding tens
  2. Adding ones without regrouping
  3. Making a new ten
  4. Subtracting tens
  5. Two-digit story problems

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