Simple Addition Lesson Plan

Simple Addition Lesson Plan 1 This lesson plan could be used at the elementary level, grade 2, as part of a math unit focusing on simple addition. I. Anticipatory set The teacher will say, “Students have you ever wondered what a digit is? ” II. Learning Objectives: Goal: Students will be able to provide answers to mathematic problems commensurate with grade level. Short Term Objective: Given 4 scenarios involving simple addition, students will complete the accompanying problems with 95% accuracy for 1 math session.

Long Term Objective: Given 5 scenarios involving simple addition and number sentences, students will complete the accompanying problems with 95% accuracy for 5 consecutive math sessions. Standards:  Show-Me Standards and GLEs GOAL 3: Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to recognize and solve problems. Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to reason inductively from a set of specific facts and deductively from general premises.

GLEs: N3B2: Students, in regard to numbers and operations, will compute fluently and make reasonable estimates to develop and demonstrate fluency by using strategies to develop fluency with basic number relationships of addition and subtraction for sums up to 20. N1C2: Students, in regard to numbers and operations, will understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers number systems; compose and decompose numbers by using a variety of strategies, such as using known facts, tens place value or landmark numbers to solve problems. III.

Instructional Input/Theory/Theorists Teacher will demonstrate what a digit is using red and blue cubes. Teacher will give example of having 3 red cubes to represent the first number and adding 2 blue cubes to represent the second number. The teacher will explain that each number is a digit. The teacher will then explain how combining the red cubes and blues cubes will give the total number of cubes. IV. Modeling The teacher will arrange the red and blue cubes to represent numbers to be combined. The teacher will stack 5 red cubes and 7 blue cubes to represent the problem of 5 +7.

The teacher will explain that the students should write down the total number of cubes. The teacher will write on the board “5 red cubes + 7 blue cubes = 12 total cubes. ” V. Comprehension Check The teacher will review the student papers to determine if students wrote down the answer correctly. The teacher will ask the students to explain how they determined their answers. The teacher will ask students if there are any specific questions and provide any supplementary instruction based on the student papers/questions. VI. Guided Practice This activity will require students to work at their desks following along with the teacher.

Students will be given ten red cubes and ten blue cubes. The teacher will write a simple addition problem, combining only two digits, on the board and say the problem. The students must stack their cubes to correspond with the problem introduced by the teacher. Students must remember to use red cubes to represent the first digit and blue cubes to represent the second digit. The students must then write the total number of cubes on their paper. The teacher will walk around the class to make sure the students are stacking the cubes, counting and writing down the total number correctly.

The teacher will ask the students to explain how they determined the correct answer. VII. Independent Practice Students will work independently to complete a similar task. The students will be given a worksheet with simple additions problems, combining only two digits, and use cubes to identify the total number of cubes. The students must correctly identify the first digit using red cubes and the second digit using blue cubes when stacking and counting. They must remember that red cubes are the first digit and that blue cubes are the second digit.