Balance It
Using a number balance and a few weights, your children will work with a partner to figure out how to make both sides balance. By recording their thinking on this recording sheet, they are exploring various parts of number as well as different ways equations can be represented.
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Size: 8.5 x 11 (letter)
Connections to Standards
CCSS.K.OA.A.3 Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).
CCSS.K.OA.A.4 For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.
CCSS.K.OA.A.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5.
CCSS.1.OA.B.3 Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.
CCSS.1.OA.B.4 Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 - 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.
CCSS.1.OA.C.5 Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
CCSS.1.OA.C.6 Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.
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