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    This document describes a lesson plan where students use counters to practice composing and decomposing numbers. Students are shown a total number of counters and then some are hidden under pieces of paper. Students then have to determine how many counters are under each paper by using their knowledge of operations and the revealed total. They are prompted to explain their reasoning. Extensions involve repeating the activity without revealing the total or finding possible totals without knowing the amounts under each paper.

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    This document describes a lesson plan where students use counters to practice composing and decomposing numbers. Students are shown a total number of counters and then some are hidden under pieces of paper. Students then have to determine how many counters are under each paper by using their knowledge of operations and the revealed total. They are prompted to explain their reasoning. Extensions involve repeating the activity without revealing the total or finding possible totals without knowing the amounts under each paper.

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    Class Counter Coverup - (Zorbit)

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    This document describes a lesson plan where students use counters to practice composing and decomposing numbers. Students are shown a total number of counters and then some are hidden under pieces of paper. Students then have to determine how many counters are under each paper by using their knowledge of operations and the revealed total. They are prompted to explain their reasoning. Extensions involve repeating the activity without revealing the total or finding possible totals without knowing the amounts under each paper.

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    Class Counter Coverup

    Materials
    Overview • Counters
    Students work on using their
    knowledge of composing and
    decomposing numbers to
    determine unknown values.

    Big Ideas
    Operations

    Directions
    1. Gather a number of counters (10-30) at the front of the class and announce the total
    amount of counters to the class.
    2. With your students’ eyes closed, take one, two or as many pieces of paper as you like and
    hide an equal number of the counters under each piece of paper.
    3. Your students need to guess how many counters are under each piece of paper.

    Key Questions
    • How do you know the total missing?
    • How did you determine the total number of counters under each piece of paper?
    • Could you know the total under each page if you did not know the values were equal?

    Supporting Learners Extensions and Variations


    • Provide students with ten frames. • Repeat the activity but do not reveal
    • Start with the original set of counters the total number of counters at the
    arranged on ten frames. beginning.
    • Without knowing how many counters
    are under each piece of paper how
    would your class determine the total.
    What are some possible totals? How
    are the possible total values
    connected?

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