Lesson Plan

Adding it All Up

In this lesson, students will learn how to add a one-digit number to a two-digit number. This will help students build upon the skills needed for regrouping larger numbers.
Need extra help for EL students? Try the Using Regrouping to Add pre-lesson.
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Need extra help for EL students? Try the Using Regrouping to Add pre-lesson.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to add a one-digit number to a two-digit number with regrouping.

The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.
EL adjustments

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Ask two volunteers to come to the front of the classroom.
  • Give one student a two-digit number. Give the other student a one digit number. Instruct the students to use base-ten blocks to add their numbers together.
  • Have the rest of the class use base-ten blocks to model the addition problem at their desks.
  • Ask students to share some information. Great questions include: What is the sum of your addition problem? What strategies did you use to find the sum?
  • Tell students that today we're going to add two-digit numbers.

Beginning

  • Define vocabulary words such as: addition, sum, strategy, digit, and place value prior to the lesson in student's home language (L1) and English.
  • Provide students with a story in their L1 to provide context for the numbers they are going to add.

Intermediate

  • Instruct students to complete a think-pair-share, explaining what it means to add.
  • Provide students with a bilingual dictionary with important vocabulary words from the lesson (e.g. sum, strategy, digit, place value, addition).