Use Mental Strategies -Counting - Lesson for Grade 1, Chapter - Make it Easy Strategies
In the "Use Mental Strategies - Counting" lesson, part of the "Make it Easy Strategies" chapter, first-grade students embark on an exciting journey to enhance their mathematical skills, specifically focusing on applications in operations within 100. This lesson is critical as it lays the foundation for understanding and applying basic arithmetic operations, such as addition and subtraction, through engaging activities designed to capture young learners' interests and imaginations.
Through the "School of Magic: Addition and Subtraction," students will learn to apply mental math strategies in a fun and magical setting, enhancing their ability to quickly and accurately solve addition and subtraction problems. The "Counting Backwards: Treasure Hunt Worksheet" activity will teach students the importance of counting in reverse order, a skill crucial for effective subtraction. The "Count by 2's: Trains Worksheet" introduces the concept of skip counting, which is not only a building block for multiplication and division but also aids in developing a sense of number patterns and sequences. Lastly, the "Count in the School of Magic Worksheet" reinforces these concepts within a magical context, making learning both enjoyable and memorable.
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Activity 1 / School of Magic: Addition and Subtraction
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Activity 2 / Counting Backwards: Treasure Hunt Worksheet
It's important when building math foundations to 'see' number lines in their heads, so this fun and inviting treasure hunt PDF worksheet will help give young math students the opportunity to see what it looks like when we 'count back.' It's a colorful and inviting sheet, and they'll also work on fine motor skills as they trace their way backward from 20 to 10 and help the pirate find his treasure!
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Activity 3 / Count by 2's: Trains Worksheet
When we are teaching our kids to do quick computations, it's important that they learn how to count up and backward efficiently. Skip-counting, or counting by 2s can help, and your little mathematician will love filling in the missing numbers for each train simply as they count by 2s. The colors are engaging, and your children will gain practice 'counting up' out loud, on paper and in their heads—vital for quick and efficient computations later.
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Activity 4 / Count in the School of Magic Worksheet
Your little mathematicians will be able to join the school of magic as they read the basic addition and subtraction equations and then count back or forward to find the correct answer and complete the counting sentences. This worksheet will have them clamoring for more, as the pictures are fun and interesting and the math sentences set them up for success with numbers less than 20 for easy accuracy.
