Moore Math Messages

1. Work with a partner.
2. Start with the greater addend and add up.
3. Decompose your smaller addend to hundreds, tens, and ones.
4. Show each jump you make and the number you land on.
5. Check your work with your partner.
6. Repeat with other task cards.

Link to full directions and task cards

1. Work with a partner. Shuffle numeral cards and place them face down in a pile.
2. Take turns to flip over a numeral card and decide where to place it on your Tens and Ones board. Your goal is to build three 2-digit numbers that have a sum close to 100.
3. Continue until you both have three 2-digit numbers on your board.
4. Add your three numbers.
5. The player with the sum closest to 100 scores one point for the round.
6. The first player to score five points wins the game.

Link to full directions, place value mat, and task cards.

1. Work with a partner.
2. Take turns to flip over the top card in the stack.
3. Decide whether the equation is true or false.
4. Place the equation on the board.
5. Explain why the equation is true or false.
6. Take turns until all the cards are placed on the board.

Link to full directions, Gameboard, and cards.

Looking for a fun way for students to complete a multiplication chart? Try four in a Line!

1. Students take turns to say a multiplication facts and write the product in the blank multiplication chart.
2. The goal is to write four products in a line in your color (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally).
3. Each time you have four products in a line, circle them to score a point.
4. Block your opponents when necessary to stop them from scoring a point.
5. Continue until the multiplication chart is filled.

Link to full directions and chart

• Each player used 8 linking cubes of one color.
• Take turns to flip over a numeral (quotient) card and place a cubes on the expression with the matching quotient.
• If your partners cube is on the expressions, BUMP it off.
• If you cube is on the expression, link the two cubes together to FREEZE the spot.
• Say and write the division facts.
• Continue play until one player has used all 8 cubes.

Link to full directions and gameboard for 6.

Link to full directions and gameboard for 7.

1. Players numbers their papers from 1 -10 to record each expression they find.
2. Players take turns rolling all 3 dice.
3. They can use just two or all three of the numbers to try to make an expression equal to 1. If they can do this, they mark off the 1 outside the "house."
4. Without rerolling,, the player tried to make an expression equal to 2, then 3, and so one.
5. The player's turn is over when an expression cannot be made with the 3 numbers.
6. Play goes to the next person who repeats the process.
7. The first person who crosses out all the number around his "house" IN ORDER is the winner.

Full directions and game board are linked below.

Directions

Game Board

1. Each player counts out 10 counters and places them on the Subtraction Stacks card wherever they want, stacking them on the numbers.
2. Players take turns tolling both dice and finding the difference between the two numbers.
3. If the difference is 2, for example, the student removes a counter from the 2 stack.
4. If the player has no counters on the stack, nothing is removed.
5. They player who removed all his/hers counters first is the winner.

Full directions and game board are linked below.

Directions

Boards

1. Place Dot Pattern Cards Face Down in a single stack.
2. Turn over the top card. "How many dots are shown?"
3. "What would we need to make five?"
4. Student turns over the next card in the stack to see if that card would complete the sum to 5.
5. Repeat.

Complete directions and dot cards a linked below.

Directions and Dot Cards

Subitizing, a basic beginning math skill, connects with ten frames in this easy activity. Provide your students with ten frame mats and counters. Then, silently hold up some of your fingers and have your students quickly fill their ten frames with counters to match the number they see. As your students become accustomed to this task, you can add to the challenge by quickly flashing a number with your fingers and then giving a little wait time while they model that number on their ten frames. Incorporate verbal cues like “Ready, set…count” so they will know where to focus their attention.

Here’s another easy way to integrate subitizing practice with ten frames. As in the previous activity, have students use ten frames and counters to model the quantities you show them on a dot card. You can use flashcards or images projected on a screen for this. (This set of ready-to-use flashcards includes both printable and digital dot cards.) As students become more experienced with this ten-frame game, shorten the amount of time that you display the dots (to encourage automaticity).

Again, take time throughout your practice to encourage students to describe what they are seeing and doing. Ask questions like, “How did you know that there were five dots?” or “What’s different about the dots on the card and the counters on your ten frame?”

This activity does double duty as a ten-frame practice and a tally mark lesson. Tallying is a useful method for collecting and organizing data, but it can be tricky for children to remember the procedure of making four sticks and then using the fifth to bundle the set of five together. Tally marks and ten frames go hand in hand, as they both help use five as a benchmark.

For this activity, have students count out loud as you draw tally marks on a whiteboard before making their ten frames match with the same number of counters. This activity, like many of the others, can also be used as a partner game, with students taking turns being the tally mark maker and the ten-frame filler.

Help students correspond numerals with quantities with this easy activity that also draws their attention to numerals in their classroom environment. Using your finger or a pointer, point to numerals around the classroom (on a number line, calendar, anchor chart, date, etc.) and have the students model that number on their ten frames with the correct number of counters. When working with a small group, you can use flashcards, a small number line, or even a counting book as the source of numerals.

This simple ten-frame activity is great for independent practice but can also be a whole- or small-group warm-up. Using one or two six-sided dice, students (or the teacher) roll and then add counters to ten frames to match the number rolled. If students are using two dice and a single ten frame, encourage them to think about what happens to the one or two extra counters if they roll eleven or twelve. This is a good way to introduce the idea that teen numbers are made up of a group of ten and some extras. If you are using a double ten frame, students can roll three dice to get a wider variety of results.

This ten frame activity requires focus and listening skills in addition to counting. Here’s how you play: While students quietly listen, drop between one and ten heavy counters (coins work well) into an opaque container. I like to use a disposable plastic drink cup because those resonate nicely. As you drop the counters (slowly, one at a time), students count in their heads. They then add counters to their ten frames to match the number of coins in your cup. Finally, dump the cup out and lay your own counters on a ten frame so the students can check their work.

Here’s another one that’s great for activating those listening skills! This simple ten frame activity requires students to count in their heads while you clap between 1 and ten (or twenty) times. Then, they add counters to their ten frames to show the claps they counted. You can add an extra level to this quick game by having a student come up to the board and tally as you clap (or have them tally privately on a sheet of paper) so students can check their counting against the record. Activities like this one are great for calming students during transitions because they are forced to be quiet while listening.

Ten frames are also a great tool for modeling simple number stories. Try reciting a very simple math story like, “I have two yellow apples and three green apples. How many apples do I have all together?” After students listen to the story, they can solve it with counters in their ten frames. Thinking about how numbers go together and come apart to make new numbers is an excellent precursor to formal addition and subtraction.

Another way for students to begin to explore addition and subtraction concepts is with this “one more/one less” ten-frame activity. This game can be used as a variation on any of the previous ten frame activities. Simply have the students model the number in question and then have them show one more and one less than that number. For example, if you hold up seven fingers, the students would place seven counters on their ten frames. Then say, “Show me one more than seven.” After the students successfully show eight, ask them to show you one less than seven.

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