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- 1st
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Students use work mats, counting bears, and die-cut numerals to combine their numbers and demonstrate the commutative property of addition. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students investigate the commutative property of addition using manipulatives. They show that subtraction and addition are inverse operations. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore the commutative property of addition. They listen to the book, "Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On" by Lois Ehlert, solve various addition problems using goldfish crackers, and play an online computer math game. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students read, write, count, and model one-to-one correspondence with whole numbers. They model and explain the processes of addition and subtraction. Students describe the relationship between the operations. They use the commutative and identity properties of addition. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students read, write, count, and model one-to-one correspondence with whole numbers. They identify even and odd numbers. Students work with addition and the commutative property of addition (2+3=3+2). Students practice working with the commutative property. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students observe and demonstrate how to use the commutative and identity properties of multiplication. They discuss the two multiplication properties, and as a class solve examples of each. Next, they complete a multiplication chart and with a partner test each other on the multiplication facts. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students consolidate and extend examineing of simple properties of the four arithmetic operations. They use these properties as an aid to easy calculation. They discover and use some more complex properties of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students complete a math worksheet. They go over 5 "topsy turvey" (commutative property of addition) examples as a class and determine how many fish are in the fishbowl. They write the number sentence and then rewrite the sentence using topsy turvey. Full Review »
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- 7th - 10th
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Students use paper cups and colored chips to observe properties of operations with real numbers. As a class, students brainstorm uses manipulatives to demonstrate the associative, commutative, distributive identity and inverse properties. In groups, they write a "properties poem" and create a slide show explaining the properties. Additional multi-sensory projects are listed. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students identify and define various mathematical properties, such as Commutative Property of Addition and Multiplication, and the Associative Property of Addition. They also reason and communicate mathematically by making mathematical connections. Finally, students create their own simple array and exchange with a partner. Full Review »

