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This lesson plan focuses on teaching subtraction to 1st grade students using story problems. Students will understand subtraction concepts by listening to subtraction stories involving objects like donuts. They will then practice subtracting within 10 by acting out story problems using objects and dice. To assess learning, students will solve word problems by writing equations and drawings, and will retell original story problems using numbers rolled on dice. The lesson aims to help students represent and solve subtraction word problems within 10.

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Math Lesson Plan

This lesson plan focuses on teaching subtraction to 1st grade students using story problems. Students will understand subtraction concepts by listening to subtraction stories involving objects like donuts. They will then practice subtracting within 10 by acting out story problems using objects and dice. To assess learning, students will solve word problems by writing equations and drawings, and will retell original story problems using numbers rolled on dice. The lesson aims to help students represent and solve subtraction word problems within 10.

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Lesson Plan # Module 2

Central Focus:
Subject:
The students will use story problems to understand the
First grade Math concept of subtracting. They will also solve math problems
and create new stories.
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
NC.1.OA.1 Represent and solve addition and
subtraction word problems, within 10, with Date submitted: November 2019
unknowns, by using objects, drawings, and
equations with a symbol for the unknown number Date taught:
to represent the problem.

Daily Lesson Objective:


Students will be able to understand the subtraction concept through stories.
Students will be able to use objects to subtract within 10.
21st Century Skills:
Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Communication: when sharing and retelling the
story. Collaboration: when working in pairs, Vocabulary): Vocabulary: take away, subtract, counting,
subtracting with the dice. count back, dice, how many, lefts.

Prior Knowledge:
Counting up to 10.
Subtracting within 10

Activity Subtraction with stories Time

The teacher reviews the vocabulary: subtraction, take away, equals, left. 10min
and ask students the meaning of those words. After that students listen
1. Focus and Review to the song about donuts that reviews the concepts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbiSXUNqPMw&t=91s
2. Statement of 2 min.
Objective Teacher explains that they are going to study subtraction and practice it
with objects and dice while listening to different stories.
for Student
After watching the video, teacher asks what happened with the donuts 10 min
3. Teacher Input
and why there were zero strawberry donuts left.
Teacher choses three students to be part of the story. Students sit down
in a circle to listen to the story:
Once upon a time, Juanita was in Walmart with her mom and they
bought 10 cupcakes. Then, she met a friend from school named
Tah’mere and gave him three donuts. He was very excited and
thankful.

Shoulder partner activity: Students take turns to retell the same story to 10 min.
their classmate.
Then, from a bag they take out a question written on a piece of paper.
How many cupcakes Does Juanita have at the beginning of the story?
4. Guided Practice How many cupcakes did she give to Tah’mere?
Does Juanita have the same cupcakes at the end of the story?
Students socialize the answers and the teacher explains some strategies
to take way and find the result. Some strategies are number line,
drawings and, manipulatives.
Dice to subtract. Students work in pairs. Each couple gets a number 10 min.
dice and a dot dice. They play to take away the number dice to the dot
dice using one of the strategies explained before. The teacher models
5. Independent Practice the activity.
When she walks around to monitor what the students are doing, she
encourages them to tell a story with the numbers they got.
Students answer a worksheet with two problems.
6. Assessment Methods 1. There is a story problem and students write equations and drawings to show the
of answer.
all objectives/skills: 2. There are two dice and the students retell a problem taking into account the
numbers they got.
Exit ticket: 10 min.
7. Closure
Math worksheet
8. Assessment Results of
all objectives/skills:
Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations
Students are going to work in pairs to write the dialogue
and practice it orally. Teacher is going to create the
groups so intermediate students help the beginners.
Materials/Technology: smartboard or projector, dice, math worksheet.
Worksheet

1. Once upon a time Milena had 9 stickers that the teacher gave her as a
birthday present. She took the stickers home and gave 4 to her little brother.
How many stickers does she have left? Use a strategy to show your answer.

2. Retell a story problem with the numbers you got in the dice.

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