Description

M1N4: Students will count collections of up to 100 objects by dividing them into equal parts and represent the results using words, pictures, or diagrams.

a.  Use informal strategies to share objects equally between two to five people.
b.  Build number patterns, including concepts of even and odd, using various concrete representations. (Examples of concrete representations include a hundreds chart, ten-grid frame, place-value chart, number line, counters, or other objects.)
c.  Identify, label, and relate fractions (halves, fourths) as equal parts of a whole using pictures and models.

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Essential Questions

How can sets and numbers be compared and ordered?

What are some ways to gather and record information?

How can 1/2 and 1/4 be represented?

How can the fractional parts of a set be modeled?

In what different ways can numbers be grouped?

What is the repeating unit in the pattern?

How does finding patterns help in counting?

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Vocabulary

Vocabulary:  place value, counting on, doubles, order, rule, counting back, related facts, number line, skip count, pattern. even. odd, related facts, one half, one fourth, equal parts, fraction

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Online Activities

• Early Math Workbench- iKnowThat.com's Math page with virtual manipulatives. Covers math facts such as place value, addition, and subtraction.

• BrainPopJr's Basic Parts of a Whole introduces primary students to fractions. (Must log in to see video).

• Brain PopJr's Number Sense segment introduces students to even and odd using the number line. (Must log in to see video).

• Discovering Math: Number Theory- United Streaming video which introduce young students to sharing equal parts of the whole. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open)

• Beginning Math Vocabulary- United Streaming video which introduce young students to math vocabulary including equal and unequal parts. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Number Crew: Action with Fractions- United Streaming video in which students begin to recognize, name and find one half and one quarter of shapes and small numbers of objects. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Math Monsters: Landmark Numbers and Number Line- United Streaming video which introduce young students to the basic properties and concepts of number lines, both positive and negative. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Mathica's Workshop: The King Comes Calling- United Streaming videos which introduces skip counting by tens and plane figures. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• BBC's Starship Math: Alien Cookbook- Online game in which students measure ingredients to make cake and divide into fractions.

• BBC's Starship Number Jumbler- Online math skills including odd and even, more or less, and rounding to the nearest 10.

• Fraction Flags- Design a flag by painting in by halves or quarters.

• Primary games: Pizza Party- Identifying parts of a whole pizza.

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• Chapter 10: Connect the Dots ~ Have fun counting by 2’s to connect the dots and find the surprise!
  Websites:  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/connect_the_dots/

• Chapter 10: Connect by 5 and 10 ~ Skip-count by fives and find and undersea adventure.  Then skip-count by tens and have a racing adventure.
  Websites:  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/connect_by_5/

• Chapter 10:Skip-Counting with a Calculator ~ Use a calculator to find number patterns
  Websites:  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/calculator_skip_count/

• Chapter 10:Skipping Song ~ Learn about skip counting as you listen to and follow along with the math jingle, "Skipping Song."
  Website:  http://www.harcourtschool.com/jingles/jingles_all/1skipping_song.html

• Chapter 17: Cross the River ~ Cross the river by finding the fraction
  Website:  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cross_the_river/            

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