Counting On

We have spent several weeks building a strong foundation for addition.  Now, the children are working on moving addition facts to fluency and solving addition word problems.  We have talked about some important addition strategies.  One strategy we worked on this week is counting on.  To count on, if students are given the problem 5+3, they would start at 5 and count 3 more, 6, 7, 8.  To introduce counting on we read the book Mouse Count.



In Mouse Count, the snake counts on to count the mice. After reading, we played a partner game to practice counting on. Everyday, I see that the students are getting more efficient with addition. So smart! After playing the Mouse Count game, we used an app called Addimals. The app Addimals walks the student through "missions."  To complete the different missions, the students must use the addition strategies we are working on developing in first grade.  The app begins with counting on.  Introducing Addimals worked perfectly into our math lesson.  Look at the concentration!

Here are a few more great math apps we will be doing in the next few weeks to practice addition strategies and fact fluency: Adding and Subtracting to Ten, Math Bingo, Teach Me Math Facts, Quick Math, Butterfly Math, and TopIt.