Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: Second

Content Area: Operations and Computation

Skills: Demonstrate the commutative property of addition (sums 10-18) using manipulatives

and illustrations.

Instructional Practices: Problems Solving, Connections, and Reasoning

Materials Needed: Two cubes with number 5-10 for each team of students. Paper and pencils or markers.

Technology:

IBM MECC

Math Concepts Level I Speedway Math

Math Practice Level I, II, III Coordinate Math

Math Strategies Circus Math

Counters and Equations Addition Logician

Modeling Operations Path Tactics

Examining Operations Early Addition

Mental Math

Activity:

Working in pairs, have the students roll two cubes (each numbered 5-10). Then have each partner write a different number sentence with the same addends and sum.

Theme:

When writing the number sentences a central theme could be used .