Posted by: Rita Taylor
Title: Click, Clack, Splish, Splash
Author and Illustrator: Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten-1st Grade
CCSSM Content Standards:
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
1. Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1
2. Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
3. Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.2 Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.)
4. Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 – 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8. Add and subtract within 20.
Add and subtract within 20.
5. Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
6. Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 – 1 = 10 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).
Work with addition and subtraction equations.
7. Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. For example, which of the following equations are true and which are false? 6 = 6, 7 = 8 – 1, 5 + 2 = 2 + 5, 4 + 1 = 5 + 2.
8. Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = _ – 3, 6 + 6 = _.
CCSSM Standards for Mathematical Practice:
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Summary: This book details the adventures of numerous types of animals on a farm. They are busy doing something suspicious while the farmer is sleeping. Each animal in the story has a specific role in their plan and the numbers 1-10 are associated with each step of the animal's plan. It is eventually found out that the animals took the day off while the famer was sleeping and they have "gone fishing". The farmer eventually wakes up to a fish tank.
Rating: For the ages of Kindergarten and 1st graders, I would give this book a 5 out of 5. It has animals that all children know about and it tells a funny story. In addition, this book could be incorporated into numerous math lessons.
Classroom Ideas/Lesson Ideas: I would use this book in a 1st grade classroom. I think it would be very helpful in teaching the children about adding and subtracting. The students could add up all of the animals in the book, the feet of the animals and other appendages. In addition, comparing and contrasting numbers is also a lesson that could be used. Students could figure out which group of animals is bigger and which is smaller, allowing them to learn to use the greater, lesser or equal signs.
Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
1. Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1
2. Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
3. Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.2 Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.)
4. Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 – 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8. Add and subtract within 20.
Add and subtract within 20.
5. Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
6. Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 – 1 = 10 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).
Work with addition and subtraction equations.
7. Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. For example, which of the following equations are true and which are false? 6 = 6, 7 = 8 – 1, 5 + 2 = 2 + 5, 4 + 1 = 5 + 2.
8. Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = _ – 3, 6 + 6 = _.
CCSSM Standards for Mathematical Practice:
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Summary: This book details the adventures of numerous types of animals on a farm. They are busy doing something suspicious while the farmer is sleeping. Each animal in the story has a specific role in their plan and the numbers 1-10 are associated with each step of the animal's plan. It is eventually found out that the animals took the day off while the famer was sleeping and they have "gone fishing". The farmer eventually wakes up to a fish tank.
Rating: For the ages of Kindergarten and 1st graders, I would give this book a 5 out of 5. It has animals that all children know about and it tells a funny story. In addition, this book could be incorporated into numerous math lessons.
Classroom Ideas/Lesson Ideas: I would use this book in a 1st grade classroom. I think it would be very helpful in teaching the children about adding and subtracting. The students could add up all of the animals in the book, the feet of the animals and other appendages. In addition, comparing and contrasting numbers is also a lesson that could be used. Students could figure out which group of animals is bigger and which is smaller, allowing them to learn to use the greater, lesser or equal signs.
I love this book I read it all the time to the children i work with. children enjoy the story because of the differen places, and more important it associated each step to a number making it fun for children to learn about mathematical expressions. Great Book
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your classroom ideas, I know in other classes I observed the teacher would read a story but only focus on the math part but you are also keeping the use of animals and numbers. This book seems good for kindergarten as a way to introduce addition.
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