Tens and ones: 1st grade math
Tens and ones; 10 = a bundle of ten ones. 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: tens and ones; 10 = a bundle of ten ones.
Teach (10 min)
- A long rod is 1 ten. A small cube is 1 one.
- 3 rods and 4 cubes is 34.
- 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/numsense.g1_blocks?lesson=1-numsense-blocks-1&at=1
Exit ticket (5 min)
- Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.
Printable sheet
Name: ____________________ Date: ____________
Tens and ones (1st grade)
- What number do the blocks show? (Each long rod is 1 ten, each small cube is 1 one.)
- What number do the blocks show? (Each long rod is 1 ten, each small cube is 1 one.)
- What number do the blocks show? (Each long rod is 1 ten, each small cube is 1 one.)
- What number do the blocks show? (Each long rod is 1 ten, each small cube is 1 one.)
- What number do the blocks show? (Each long rod is 1 ten, each small cube is 1 one.)
- What number do the blocks show? (Each long rod is 1 ten, each small cube is 1 one.)
- How many tens (long rods) are there?
- What number do the blocks show? (Each long rod is 1 ten, each small cube is 1 one.)
- How many ones (small cubes) are there?
- What number do the blocks show? (Each long rod is 1 ten, each small cube is 1 one.)
- How many ones (small cubes) are there?
- How many ones (small cubes) are there?
Key
- 13
- 33
- 10
- 29
- 57
- 35
- 3
- 56
- 8
- 10
- 9
- 3
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