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Making Ten Strategy

Operations Fluency Building

Day 168of 180
Week 34of 36
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand how to decompose numbers to make ten

2

Practice adding numbers by breaking them into friendly parts

3

Develop mathematical thinking with joy and confidence

📖 Scripture Connection

Proverbs 16:16

“How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen above silver.”

— Proverbs 16:16 (WEB)

Just as we break down math problems into smaller parts, wisdom comes from understanding step by step

📦 Materials Needed

  • 10-frame board
  • counting bears or buttons
  • dice
  • pencil
  • BibleMouse Math Worksheet
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Quickly review yesterday's doubles strategy

💭 Review Question: What doubles fact did we learn yesterday?
2Teaching (8 min)

Introduce making ten strategy with colorful manipulatives

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Sometimes we can make math easier by breaking numbers into parts
  • Let's learn how to make friends with the number ten!
  • When we see a number that's close to ten, we can 'borrow' from it
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What do you think happens when we break numbers apart?
  • Can you show me how 8 and 2 make ten?
3Activity: Ten Friends Game (10 min)
hands-on

Students use 10-frame and counting objects to practice making ten

📝 Instructions:
  1. Roll a die
  2. Find how many more you need to make ten
  3. Place the correct number of objects to complete the ten
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Use smaller numbers like 6+4

Challenge: Try more complex combinations like 7+6

4Closing (3 min)

Celebrate math learning and review key concepts

📝 Review Questions:
  • What did we learn about making ten today?
  • Show me how 8+2 makes ten!

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll review fact families and how numbers connect

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Making ten is a foundational strategy for mental math

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use lots of praise and encouragement
  • Make it fun and game-like
  • Don't worry about perfection
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might get frustrated if they can't immediately understand

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's ability to break numbers into parts of ten

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • BibleMouse Making Ten Coloring Worksheet
  • Create a 'Ten Friends' poster
  • Sing a counting song from BibleMouse Song Collection

Ready for Tomorrow?

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