The Dice Game
Halima Haji
First Grade/Math
Common Core Standards:
1.NBT.2 Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand
the following as special cases: 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones called a ten; the numbers from
11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones; and the numbers
10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).
1.OA.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 = .
Lesson Summary:
In this lesson students will be able to understand place value in two-digit numbers and solve equations that
have missing parts. They will play games and watch videos to better understand the content. They will also be
working in partners to better understand the content.
Estimated Duration:
This lesson will be divided into three days and will last somewhere between 30-40 minutes.
Day 1
Introduction to Place Value (20 minutes)
Watch video (10 minutes)
Day 2
Instruction on how to play the game (15 minutes)
Play Dice Game (20 minutes)
Day 3
Introduction to number sense/ Watch video (10 minutes)
Watch video on Chromebook (15 minutes)
Play game (20 minutes)
Commentary: My approach to lesson is to explain the topics to the children and then have them do a hands-on
activity. I will get my students hooked into the lesson by starting by watching videos and listening to songs
about the topic.
Instructional Procedures:
Day 1:
First 20 minutes: Introduction to Place Value
I will have all the students sitting on the carpet. I will explain to the students what a place value is and how we
use it. I will then use the smart board and put up a 2-column chart labeled with the tens and ones. I will then
have students one by one tell me a number and have them put the number in the t-chart with the smart board
markers.
10 minutes: After being done explaining place value I will have students watch a YouTube video called,
Place Value First Grade- Tens and Ones. I will stop the videos from time to time to let students answer the
questions the video asks.
Day 2:
First 10 minutes: Instruction on How to Play the Game
I will start by showing the students how to pay the dice game. I will have 2 column chart drawn labeled tens
and ones chart already drawn on the board before the students come in the class. I will have two big dice and
roll them on the floor and the numbers I get I will put them on number in the tens column and the other one in
the ones column. And then I will draw an arrow and have the 2 numbers written out together. After that I will
go over safety rules.
5 minutes: Put children into groups of two and pass out dice to each group and place value worksheet labeled
tens and ones.
20 minutes: Students will start playing the dice game with their partners and writing the numbers they get on
the worksheet. I will walk around and see if there is any student who needs help.
Day 3:
First 10 minutes: Students will be seated on the carpet and they will watch the YouTube video called, The
Addends and the Sum Singalong. Then I will explain to students more what addends are and then I will start
showing examples of addends that have missing sums or ones that have one addend missing.
15 minutes: Students will go back to their seats where there are chrome books at their table where each student
will watch the video, Missing Addends and each student will be provided a headphone. I will walk around
and see if there are students who need help.
20 minutes: The students will come back to the carpet and bring the worksheet they used to play the dice game
and they will each come up and pick 2 from their sheet and then I will put those 2 numbers on the board as an
equation and then have students figure out whats the number that is missing.
Pre-Assessment:
One strategy to pre-assess student knowledge is by giving them a worksheet that has equations that have miss
addends or sums and having them circle what number is in the tens place and put a square on numbers that are
in the ones place.
Scoring Guidelines:
I will collect the worksheets when the students are done and will see how each student did. I will mark
the ones they did wrong and keep the worksheets with me to compare when I give to them again at the
end of the lesson.
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Post-Assessment:
I will hand students the same worksheet they have gotten for the pre-assessment and see how they will do after
they learned everything.
Scoring Guidelines:
I will collect the worksheet when students are done and take an actual grade for it and put a percent on
it. Then I will compare the student worksheet from before and now and see how much they improved.
Differentiated Instructional Support
Describe how instruction can be differentiated (changed or altered) to meet the needs of gifted or accelerated
students: Students who know the content very well and there is a child in class who is struggling. I will have
that student be peers with the student who is struggling and try to have that student explain to the other student
the content and see if they will understand that way.
Discuss additional activities you could do to meet the needs of students who might be struggling with the
material: I can also have a one-on-one session with that student and provide them with extra worksheet to help
them better understand.
Extension
The website I chose is Khan Academy. Khan academy is an online website that help students with materials
they need more help in. Khan academy is a great website that can help students with more practice on the topic
and they can take practice quizzes at the end.
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Homework Options and Home Connections
I will give students a worksheet that has what they must do each day for homework and on each day, they will
have a website to go on. Like one website may be playing a game or taking a quiz.
Interdisciplinary Connections
This lesson can be integrated with reading. When children are sounding out a word and then putting it together.
The lesson can also be integrated with writing, when children are trying to out words there spelling out.
Materials and Resources:
For teachers Smartboard: To watch videos and for examples
For students Chromebook
Worksheet
Headphones
Key Vocabulary
Addends
Place value
Whole
Part
Additional Notes
