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🧮 Kindergarten · MathK.OA.A.2Unit 5: Addition within 10

Addition story problems

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🎯 Objective: Students solve add-to and put-together word problems within 10 by drawing.

Lesson outline

  1. Read a story problem twice; students close their eyes and picture it.
  2. Model a quick drawing with circles, not detailed pictures.
  3. Solve three story problems in pairs.
  4. Exit: solve one story and write the equation.

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

K.OA.A.2

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Show addition with objects, fingers, drawings and equations
  • Solve add-to and put-together story problems within 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: Operations & Algebraic Thinking📚 All Kindergarten skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Addition within 10”

  1. Putting together
  2. Plus and equals
  3. Addition story problems
  4. Ways to make a number
  5. Making 10
  6. Adding with 0 and 1

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