Begin with Buttons

In this lesson, students review classification, make sets of a given number, explore relationships between numbers, and find numbers that are one more and one less than a given number. They apply their knowledge of classification as they play a game similar to bingo.

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Begin with Buttons

Standards & Objectives

Learning objectives:

Students will:

Identify objects that have a given attributes.
Create a set that corresponds to a given number less than 10.
Count the elements in a set of up to 10 members.
Write the number of elements in a set with up to 10 members.
Create sets of one more and one less than a given number to 10.

Essential and guiding questions:

How many of your buttons are blue? How many are big? How many have four holes?

What number words did we use that help us describe how many we have of something?

What words did we use that help us tell about the order of objects?

Make a set with nine buttons or less. How many buttons would be in a set with one more? With one less? (Repeat with other numbers.)

Here is a set of buttons. Write how many are in the set. Then write how many will be in a set with one more. Then with one less.

What number comes after 6? After 9? Write those numbers.

What number comes before 4? Before 7? Write those numbers.

What number comes before 1? After 1? Write those numbers.

How many buttons will there be in a set of one less than six buttons?

Lesson Variations

Blooms taxonomy level:

Evaluating

References

Contributors:

Angela Hamilton

Originator:

Ayers Institute for Learning & Innovation

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