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🧮 Kindergarten · MathK.NBT.A.1Unit 8: Teen numbers: ten ones and some more

Teen numbers with bundles

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🎯 Objective: Students show teen numbers with a bundle of ten sticks and loose sticks.

Lesson outline

  1. Bundle 10 straws with a rubber band.
  2. Make 14: one bundle and 4 loose.
  3. Partners build and name numbers from cards.
  4. Exit: draw 12 as a bundle and loose sticks.

Lesson 3 of 4 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.NBT.A.1

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Show 11–19 as ten ones and some further ones
  • Record teen numbers with drawings and equations (10 + 4 = 14)

✅ 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: Number & Operations in Base Ten📚 All Kindergarten skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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