And they're off! Working in pairs, young mathematicians roll dice to see who can fill in their double ten-frames first. When students finally fill in their arrays, they create addition number sentences that represent their rolls, helping to reinforce the underlying math concepts. A simple activity that offers all primary grade students an opportunity to strengthen their number sense. Perform this activity once as a whole class or as part of rotations before offering it as an option for early finishers during math lessons.

Concepts

addition, dice, number sentence, numbers

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Additional Tags

addition, number sentences, dice activity, dice game, double ten-frame, math

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Pros

• Includes an account of a teacher's experience using this activity with her class, complete with student quotes and work samples
• Provides a list of key questions to help guide students during the activity
• Offers an idea for extending the Race to 20 activity

Cons

• Requires the teacher to create double ten-frames for students to use in this activity
• The Race to 20 Assessment is not provided, but can be recreated from the pictures included in the resource

Common Core

K.CC.A.3 K.CC.B.4.a K.CC.B.5 K.OA.A.1 K.OA.A.4 K.OA.A.5 1.OA.B.3 1.OA.C.6 1.NBT.B.2.a 1.NBT.B.2.b 2.OA.B.2 2.OA.C.4 MP5 MP7