Lesson Title Addition & Subtraction Top-It

Grade Level & Kindergarten Math

Content Area

Lesson Students will be able to use tactics to add and subtract quickly and
Objectives explain their thinking.
Students will be able to play a game with number cards to gain fluency
with addition and subtraction
State K.ATO.4 Create a sum of 10 using objects and drawings when given one
Standards of two addends 1 – 9.
K.ATO.5 Add and subtract fluently within 5.
Block Time 60 minutes
How will Students will be grouped based off of their ability to fluently use addition
students be and subtraction. To determined their ability students will be tested
previous to the lesson. Then they will work together in pairs based on
grouped?
their academic needs. Each set will consist of a higher academic level and
one middle or lower academic level.
What data will K.ATO.1 Model situations that involve addition and subtraction within 10
these using objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, acting out situations,
verbal explanations, expressions, and equations.
groupings be
based on? Students will be taught a lesson on ways to add and subtract. Following
the lesson they will be tested to see what they have learn and how much
information they have retained.
How will data Data will be collected in this lesson through teaching and informative
be collected in class discussion as well as through a short test that students will take in
class on paper as well as at home with a parent via Google Docs.
this lesson?

Introduction Estimated Time: 10 Min

Students will enter the classroom and put their things away in their cubbies and find their
seats. Following morning calendar and breakfast students will sit in a circle on the rug. Then
one lucky student will get to volunteer to help demonstrate how to play the game Addition
and Subtraction Top-it.
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Estimated Time: 10 Estimated Estimated Time: 10 Min
Min Time: 20
Min
I will direct students The students will begin In this section students will return
back to their seats playing the game. First to there spots on the rug . Then we
according to the everyone will play addition will watch a fun academic video as
arrangements I made Top it for the first 10 Minute a class.
previously based on and for the second 10
their academic level. Minute they can play https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Then they will discuss subtraction Top it. v=NHI0ePgwlgU
with their shoulder
partner what they have Students will take turns This video its just an example of
learned while they were drawing only two cards at a what ways students can add and
on the rug and during time then they will add the subtract. It describes and discusses
our class discussions. All numbers from each card addition and subtraction using
while I will be passing together. The player with music.
out all the materials the the larger number wins and
students need to play then they continue until all
the Top it game. the cards have been use or
until time is up.

Students will take turns

drawing only two cards at a
time then they will subtract
the numbers from each card.
The player with the smallest
number wins and then they
continue until all the cards
have been use or until time
is up.

Closure Estimated Time: 10 Min

After watching the video we will clean up all of the material. Then student will answer a few
question that I have for them as a class. Following a few students will come up with their
partners to discuss their strategies and tactics they used when adding and subtracting.