Content Area: Algebra

lessons

Who’s Hiding?

In this lesson, children will analyze the book’s illustrations to determine which animal is hiding. The children will use the partial data in a guessing/thinking format to figure out which animal is hiding.

Wonderful Worms

In this lesson, children will use colorful plastic worms of different sizes to measure various objects around the room.

Yahtzee

In this lesson, children will add the numbers of two dice and cross out the sum.

Remainder of One

In this lesson, children will arrange them 25 cubes into groups of two, three, four and five. The children will examine the different groups and learn about the concept of a remainder.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

In this lesson, children will graph the different vehicles that they scoop out of a bucket and then analyze their collected data.

Quack and Count

In this lesson, children will use manipulatives to form different groups that make up the number seven.

Sandwich Shop Game

In this lesson, children look at a menu and count out sandwich pieces to build sandwiches and then calculate the prices of their sandwiches.

Soft Patterning Fun

In this lesson, children will create and extend patterns using spoons and forks or counters from the math kit.

Subtraction Bowling

In this lesson, children will subtract the number of “bowling pins” that are knocked down and calculate the remaining pins left standing, using a base of 10.

Take a Trip with Rooster

In this lesson, children will predict, sort, add and subtract the various animals that Rooster meets on his trip.