Lessons For Teaching "Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add"
Breaking a 2-digit or larger number apart, or ungrouping the number, is a
strategy that helps students see the value in place value. The tens place
is not just a 4. It’s value is 40 or 4 tens. The more mental math tips
that students have in their tool kit of skills, the easiest each step of
the harder math skills become.
One of the best ways to each this strategy is with base ten blocks. I
teach my students a "banking method" I'm taking a ten and I'm going to
the bank and returning with 10 ones. It is a lot of fun to model it in
the beginning, taking your ten piece and walking over to another table
to trade it out for 10 ones. Later as they are practicing and reviewing
this skill by themselves, it is wonderful to hear, "I'm taking these
three hundreds to the bank..."
I like base ten blocks that are all one color, that way the students
don't get confused with trading "red" for "green" instead of the skill of
trading ones for tens. The above picture is a wonderful set at
Amazon that are magnetic for your
board or an independent center.
Students can roll their dice at the same time and the winner is the one
with highest number. They can play to ten points, or if you have a few
minutes before lunch or dismissal, play the lightening round... winner
needs two wins. By having the students check each other's dice, there is
more mental math going on in a short period of time.
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For each unit, I stick to one color to make it easier for the teacher to
make, sort and store the lessons each year. For each section of the lesson
I try to use the same adorable student clip art. That way, indirectly, the
children know the task cards, the color your answers printables and the
center games are all focusing on the same skill.
Finding class time during the day to allow students to work on
reviewing the math skills you have taught can be challenging! But
knowing those skills quickly will help your students master the harder
math skills ahead of them! You will love the low prep, print and go
ease of this 3rd Grade Go Math 1.6 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Center
Games, Color By Number, and Task Cards Bundle for your class.
My students LOVED having Color By Numbers, Center Games and Task
Cards at our Math Centers and your students will too! You can dedicate
one of your math centers (math workstations) as a math skill only math
center. By changing out the skill each day, each week, or each month,
your students already know the directions for using that math center.
Your math center can be placed in a folder with the included folder
cover and the student can take the center back to their seat if
classroom space is limited. Your students will enjoy the freedom of
center games and task cards while learning and reviewing important
skills at the same time! This 3rd Grade Go Math 1.6 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Center
Games, Color By Number, and Task Cards Bundle is also perfect for assessment grades for 3rd Grade Go Math Chapter
1!
These Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Center Games, Color By Number,
and Task Cards Bundle also include the answer keys. You can laminate the answer keys for
the task cards and leave at the center to allow it to be student led,
self-checking sheets. In small group lessons you can give each student
three to four task cards and they can help each other and review
the Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Skill by checking the answers that their partner or neighbor
answered, keeping everyone involved! Keep your students engaged, alert
and on their toes with this one little, cute Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Skill Resource! Place the Color By Number Answer Keys at your center for a Student
Self-Checking Sheet too! OR place it in a folder in a different
location that they may go check once they show you, or a classroom
helper, the completed worksheet.
Once your students are used to the expectations of using center
games and task cards, your math skills math center can run all
year with different skills from my TpT Store.
This 3rd Grade Go Math 1.6 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add
Center Games, Color By Number, and Task Cards Bundle Contains the
Following Resources:
This Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Bundle Includes:
The 14 Page Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Color By Numbers
Includes:
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A folder cover and/or center cover and/or workbook cover
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Weekly Lesson Plan Ideas and Suggestions
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A Twelve Page Letter From Me! This letter includes many ways to use Center Games, Task Cards,
and Color By Numbers in your classroom! This number of pages in this letter is NOT included in the TpT
description of actual page numbers.
The 10 Page Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Center Games
Includes:
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24 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Center Game Cards in
Color
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24 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Center Game Cards in Black
and White
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1 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Center Game Folder Cover
and/or Math Center Signs in Color
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1 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Center Game Folder Cover
and/or Math Center Signs in Black and White
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1 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Student Directions in
Color, including Teacher Directions
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1 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Student Directions in Black
and White, including Teacher Directions
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1 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Math Center Sign in
Color
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1 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Math Center Sign in Black
and White
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A Twelve Page Letter From Me! This letter includes many ways to use Center Games, Task Cards,
and Color By Numbers in your classroom! This number of pages in this letter is NOT included in the TpT
description of actual page numbers.
The 24 Page Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Task Cards
Resource Includes:
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36 Break Apart Strategy to Add Task Cards in Color
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36 Matching Break Apart Strategy to Add Task Cards in Black and
White
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1 Answer Key Sheet - Perfect for a Student Self-Checking
Sheet
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2 Teacher and/or Math Center Task Card Folder Covers
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Center Sign Stating "Task Cards" perfect for a student folder
cover too!
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A Twelve Page Letter From Me! This letter includes many ways to use Center Games, Task Cards,
and Color By Numbers in your classroom! This number of pages in this letter is NOT included in the TpT
description of actual page numbers.
This 3rd Grade Go Math 1.6 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add
Center Games, Color By Number, and Task Cards Bundle is Perfect
for...
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Scoot Game! Keep them all up and moving!
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Remediation and RTI Groups
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Substitute Teacher Folders
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Early Morning Arrival Students
More, Detailed Descriptions of What is Included in This 3rd Grade
Go Math 1.6 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Center Games,
Color By Number, and Task Cards Bundle:
TASK CARDS:
Page 1 - Teacher Folder - Cute, colorful cover for your personal teacher files. Attach to the
front of a folder, keep all your pages inside the folder, place into
your file cabinet, and you are all ready for next year with this
easily identified Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add task cards
folder cover.
Page 2 - Matching Printable Center Sign saying "Task Cards"
Pages 3 to 11 - 36 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add Task Cards. The task cards state, "Solve" above the problem that
reinforces the Break Apart Strategy to Add.
Page 12 - Recording Sheet.
Page 13 - Answer Key / Student Self-Checking Page
Page 14 - Teacher Folder In Grayscale - Cute, colorful cover for your personal teacher files. Attach to the
front of a folder, keep all your pages inside the folder, place into
your file cabinet, and you are all ready for next year with this
easily identified Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add task cards
folder cover.
Page 15 - Matching Printable Center Sign saying "Task Cards" in Grayscale,
print on colored paper to save colored ink and to really make your
sign POP!
Pages 16 to 24 - 36 Estimate Sums Task Cards in a black and white outlined style of
clip art. The first two task cards on every page focuses only on
estimating for ten and the last two task cards on every page focuses
only on estimating for hundred. This way you can differentiate your
class by giving a few cards to your lowest group, more cards to your
average group, and all the cards to your highest group, but everyone
will still get experience with rounding to nearest ten and rounding to
the nearest hundred while estimating sums.
Pages 25 to 36 -
NEW FREE BONUS FILE
A Twelve Page Letter From Me! This letter includes many ways to use Center Games, Task Cards, and
Color By Number in your classroom! ** PLEASE NOTE ** This BONUS FILE appears in all the resources in this bundle, but the
12 pages are not included in the TpT description page listing of
number of pages.
COLOR BY NUMBER:
Page One - A cover page stating "Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add" that can
be used for a cover sheet for your file folder in your files. It can
also be a folder cover for your students, give them a file folder with
this cover and they can keep all the student sheets in the file folder
to work on during math centers, morning work, or as a fast finisher
activity. You can take a large piece of construction paper, 12 inches
X 18 inches, fold it in half and use that as a "File Folder" to hold
your students' work too.
One of my favorite uses for this cover
page is to use it as a workbook cover and staple the other six pages
with it, perfect for a Fast Finisher book!
Page Two - This Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add
Page has a cute little boy and an adorable little girl on this solve and
color page. Students solve the Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add problems on this page and then use the Color Code to color it in. A
fun idea is to have the students do the math during morning work, and
then they can use color pencils, markers, water color paint, etc. to
color by code during math center time or seat work time.
Page Three - This Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add
Page has a cute little teddy bear reading a book and enjoying a nice warm
drink in his pumpkin mug on this solve and color page. Students solve
the Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add problems on this page and then use the Color Code to color it in.
Another fun idea is to have the students do the math for homework, and
then they can use color pencils, markers, water color paint, etc. to
color by code during their math morning work time!
Page Four - This Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add
Page is one of my very favorites! It has a cute little dog with his doggie
bowl and a big WOOF to color too! Students solve the Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add problems and then use the code box to color their answers!
Page Five - This Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add
Page has 16 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add problems on this page. When your student is done solving these
problems, there is also a little girl and a fancy border that they can
color for fun!
Page Six - This Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add
Page has 16 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add problems on this page. When your student is done solving these
problems, there is also a little boy in the corner that they can color
for fun!
Page Seven - This Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add
Page has 10 COMPLEX Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add problems. There are underlined spaces to help your students to
remember and do all the steps involved with adding two 3-digit
numbers. This page is perfect for an end of the week, end of the
skill, assessment.
Pages Eight to Thirteen - Six Answer Keys
Page Fourteen - Weekly Lesson Plan Ideas and Suggestions
Pages Fifteen to Twenty-Six -
NEW FREE BONUS FILE
A Twelve Page Letter From Me! This letter includes many ways to use Center Games, Task Cards, and
Color By Number in your classroom! ** PLEASE NOTE ** This BONUS FILE appears in all the resources in this bundle, but the
12 pages are not included in the TpT description page listing of
number of pages.
Lesson Plan Ideas For The Color By Number Pages:
Monday - Use pages 5 or 6, as a Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add pre-assessment. Plan your small groups for the week around the data
from this and your other observations.
Tuesday - Use page 5, the 16 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add math problems that break the 3-digit number down using their place
value skills as morning work. Depending on the level of your boys and
girls, they can complete the page alone, in pairs, or in a group. You
can have the answer key on the board so that they are copying the
correct answers as a very basic, low math level activity. OR Once the
boys and girls are done, you, or a student, can project the answer
key, covering up the problems and call them out one at a time, while
revealing the answer.
* During math rotations, use page 2, a cute
little boy and an adorable little girl solve and color page to
review Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add during your student seat work time.
Wednesday - Use page 6, the 16 Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add math problems that break the 3-digit number down using their place
value skills as morning work. Depending on the level of your boys and
girls, they can complete the page alone, in pairs, or in a group. You
can have the answer key on the board so that they are copying the
correct answers as a very basic, low math level activity. OR Once the
boys and girls are done, you, or a student, can project the answer
key, covering up the problems and call them out one at a time, while
revealing the answer.
* During math rotations, use page 3, the
cute little teddy bear reading a book solve and color page to
review Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add during your student seat work time.
Thursday - During morning work, classwork, small group instruction, or seat
work, have the students complete pages 5 & 6 copied front to back,
the Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add pages as a review. You can have the students self-correct the page or
peer sharing to review and come to a final answer together, all sorts
of review possibilities.
OR PLAN B - Just give one of the pages from 5 and 6, (the easier page) Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add pages as a final assessment.
* During math rotations, use page
4, the cute little dog with his doggie bowl solve and color page to
review Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add during your student seat work time.
Friday - Use page 7, the Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add page that has 10 problems as a final assessment.
Weekly Homework - You can use any and all of these pages as your weekly homework
review, they are completely student self-directed so you will not have
any problems or concerns with parents that are unable to help their
children with this assignment. Win-Win for everyone!
CENTER GAMES:
Page One - A cover page stating "Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add" that can
be used for a cover sheet for your file folder in your files. It can
also be a math center folder cover for your students, by putting this
math center in a folder with the folder cover, your students can take
it back to their desk if your classroom space is limited. You can also
use the cover page as a poster, placing it on the wall over your math
center. Multiple uses with just this one, colorful, inviting
page!
Page Two - Twelve center game cards with cute clip art and the math
problems.
Page Three - Twelve center game cards with cute clip art and the answers.
Page Four - A Student Directions page, perfect to place in a center folder, a
center Ziploc baggie, or staple up above the math center on the wall.
The bottom of the page also includes Teacher Directions too!
Page Five - A cute, matching clip art sign stating "Math Center" to place on the
wall over your math center, and if you like, it can stay up all year!
Or to place on a folder to identify a movable, portable math center if
your class space is limited!
Page Six - A black and white version of Page One - A cover page stating "Use the Break Apart Strategy to Add" that can
be used for a cover sheet for your file folder in your files. It can
also be a math center folder cover for your students, by putting this
math center in a folder with the folder cover, your students can take
it back to their desk if your classroom space is limited. You can also
use the cover page as a poster, placing it on the wall over your math
center. Multiple uses with just this one, adorable, inviting
page! Perfect for a Math Night Take Home Center Game!
Page Seven - Twelve center game cards with cute clip art and the math problems in
a black and white colorable student page, perfect for a Parent Math
Night or a Take Home Math Center!
Page Eight - Twelve center game cards with cute clip art and the math answers in a
black and white colorable student page, perfect for a Parent Math
Night or a Take Home Math Center!
Page Eight - This page is a Common Core poster for your math center, or Classroom
Focus Board with the main focus of the lesson.
Page Nine - A black and white version of Page Four - A Student Directions page, perfect to place in a center folder, a
center Ziploc baggie, or staple up above the math center on the wall.
The bottom of the page also includes Teacher Directions too!
Page Ten - A black and white version of Page Five - A cute, matching clip art sign stating "Math Center" to place on the
wall over your math center, and if you like, it can stay up all year!
Or to place on a folder to identify a movable, portable math center if
your class space is limited! Print this on color paper to save ink,
but still add some joy to your classroom!
Pages Eleven to Twenty-Two -
NEW FREE BONUS FILE
A Twelve Page Letter From Me! This letter includes many ways to use Center Games, Task Cards, and
Color By Number in your classroom! ** PLEASE NOTE ** This BONUS FILE appears in all the resources in this bundle, but the
12 pages are not included in the TpT description page listing of
number of pages.
There are many ways to use this 3rd Grade Go Math 1.6 Use the
Break Apart Strategy to Add Center Games Resource, here are a few
of my favorite ways:
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Use one page as a game board, cut the other page. Place all those
cards face down. Have the students turn over one card at a time,
solve and place face up on the board. If they are incorrect, the
card returns to the bottom of the pile. The winner is the student
who places the final card. OR, for a "no winner" version, the goal
is for the students to solve the cards independently, but to
completely cover the board together. This version can ALSO be
played two ways. One way is with the answer page as the game
board, another way is with the math problem page as the game board
instead.
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You can also play this game with cutting all the cards and
matching up the problems with the solutions.
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For movement, place the problem cards around the room and the
student(s) have to solve the math problem and leave the correct
answer card at that location. Have a second student check the
answers to extend the game.
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Mix all the cards together, with two students, deal 5 cards to
each student and then place the remaining cards face down. Use as
a Go Fish card game!
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Lay all the cards upside down on the floor and use as a
Concentration (some call it Memory) Game!
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Common Core State Standards
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CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NBT.A.2
Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms
based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the
relationship between addition and subtraction.
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