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🧮 Kindergarten · MathK.OA.A.2Unit 10: Fluency, number stories & year review

Write your own number stories

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🎯 Objective: Students tell and draw their own addition and subtraction stories.

Lesson outline

  1. Model telling a story about the playground.
  2. Students draw a story and write the equation.
  3. Share in pairs; partner solves.
  4. Exit: say whether your story was add or subtract.

Lesson 2 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.OA.A.2

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Add and subtract within 5 fluently
  • Solve and tell number stories within 10
  • Count, compare and write numbers to 20

✅ 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 “Fluency, number stories & year review”

  1. Number partners for 10
  2. Write your own number stories
  3. Math games day
  4. Ready for first grade

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