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Number-Line Jump

Lesson Plan

Number-Line Jump

Objectives

Students will develop conceptual place value. Students will:

  • use their understanding of making ten to add one-digit and two-digit numbers.
  • use an empty number line to help them visualize the jumps they make.

Essential Questions

How are relationships represented mathematically?
How can mathematics support effective communication?
How can recognizing repetition or regularity assist in solving problems more efficiently?
How is mathematics used to quantify, compare, represent, and model numbers?
What does it mean to estimate or analyze numerical quantities?
What makes a tool and/or strategy appropriate for a given task?
  • What makes a tool/strategy appropriate for a given task?
  • How are relationships represented mathematically?

Vocabulary

  • Compose: Putting numbers together (addition).
  • Decompose:  Breaking numbers apart (subtraction).

Duration

60 minutes

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Formative Assessment

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    • Observations of students and partners throughout the lesson will serve to assess student progress.
    • The Open Number Line Activity Sheet (M-1-2-2_Open Number Line Activity Sheet.docx) serves as a review of the strategies students were exposed to in Lesson 2 and can be used as a formative assessment.

Suggested Instructional Supports

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    Scaffolding, Active Engagement, Modeling, Explicit Instruction
    W: Introduce the empty number line to students. Practice placing numbers on the line.  
    H: Put the number 30 on the line and ask how you can get to 35 with one hop.  
    E: Have students continue making one hop, and then add off the decade with two hops. 
    R: Give students the opportunity to practice hops/jumps with off-decade numbers and plotting them on number lines.  
    E: Assess students through class discussions or small-group work, and provide opportunities for questions and clarification. Emphasize that any strategy is valid if it works for the student and gives the correct answer.  
    T: Have students who are struggling focus on jumping from decade numbers and adding single digits, or starting at single digits and jumping to 10. Students who already know how to add across the decades can work on subtracting.  
    O: The lesson begins with the whole group but then moves to independent work. 

Instructional Procedures

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    Draw an open number line on the board. Show students how an open number line is helpful because you can use it for any numbers or ranges. Write a 32 on the number line; then count by ones and plot where 40 would be. Explain to students that the goal is to hop to the nearest 10. Continue this process until students seem to understand how the number line works.

    Plot the number 35 on the number line. Ask students “How can I hop to 40 in just one hop?”

    Ask for ideas. Draw the hop on the number line and label it with “+5” above the jump. Then record the number sentence 35 + 5 = 40. Plot the number 48 on the number line. Ask students “How can I hop to 50 in just one hop?” Have students share their ideas with a partner. Then choose one student to share out. Repeat this process with other off-decade numbers and ask students how to hop to the next decade.

     

    Next plot the 35 on the number line again. This time ask students “How can you add 6 to 35 using two hops?” Have students talk with their partner about strategies for solving the problem.

    Ask for volunteers. Students might say they would add 5 to get to 40, and then add 1 more.

     

    Pose another problem, this time starting with the number 46. Ask students “How can you add 8 using two hops?” Repeat this process until students have a good understanding.

     

    Then pass out an Open Number Line Activity Sheet (M-1-2-2_Open Number Line Activity Sheet.docx) to each pair. Allow students time to work together on the number-line hops.

    Have the class come together in your meeting spot. Ask for volunteers to show the jumps they made for a few of the problems on their sheet.

    Extension:

    • Routine: The number of the date can be used to add to the next decade, or add across decades each day during a calendar routine.
      • 50 jump back 6
      • 60 jump back 4
      • 63 jump back 6 in two hops
      • 72 jump back 5 in two hops.
    • Small Group: Have students practice adding single-digit numbers to decade numbers on the empty number line. Then you can start with single digits and add to get to 10.
    • Expansion: Students who are easily making the jumps across the decades can begin working with subtracting from a decade number and subtracting across decades. For example:

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Final 4/27/14
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