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Doubles and make-a-ten tricks: 1st grade math

Count on; make ten; doubles; near doubles. A free 1st grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: count on; make ten; doubles; near doubles.

Teach (10 min)

  • A double is a number added to itself: 4 + 4 = 8.
  • Know the doubles by heart and they help with others: 4 + 5 is one more than 4 + 4.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/whole.doubles?lesson=1-doubles&at=1

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. 1 + 1 = ?
  • 2. 1 + 1 = ?
  • 3. 2 + 2 = ?

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. 1 + 1 = ?
  2. 1 + 1 = ?
  3. 2 + 2 = ?
  4. 1 + 1 = ?
  5. 1 + 1 = ?
  6. 2 + 2 = ?
  7. 1 + 1 = ?
  8. 4 + 4 = ?
  9. 2 + 2 = ?
  10. 2 + 2 = ?
Answers
  1. 2
  2. 2
  3. 4
  4. 2
  5. 2
  6. 4
  7. 2
  8. 8
  9. 4
  10. 4

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Doubles and make-a-ten tricks (1st grade)

  1. 2 + 2 = ?
  2. 1 + 1 = ?
  3. 1 + 1 = ?
  4. 1 + 1 = ?
  5. 5 + 5 = ?
  6. 2 + 2 = ?
  7. 3 + 3 = ?
  8. 7 + 7 = ?
  9. 3 + 3 = ?
  10. 2 + 2 = ?
  11. 7 + 7 = ?
  12. 10 + 10 = ?
Key
  1. 4
  2. 2
  3. 2
  4. 2
  5. 10
  6. 4
  7. 6
  8. 14
  9. 6
  10. 4
  11. 14
  12. 20

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