The Contexts for Learning Mathematics Teacher Pack: Grades 1–2 contains 1 Getting Started guide, 3 unit books, and 3 context-setting read-aloud books.

 

In Organizing and Collecting the hopelessly disorganized Masloppy family’s efforts to inventory their possessions create a context for investigating place value patterns and efficient ways to count with five- and ten-structures. As the unit progresses, children develop place value and addition strategies.

 

Measuring for the Art Show builds on children’s early addition and measurement strategies within the context of preparing labels for an art show. The open number line is developed as a model for recording children’s addition and subtraction strategies.

 

In Trades, Jumps, and Stops, the equitable distribution of funds from the Masloppy piggy bank to finance a family trip introduces big ideas and strategies in algebra, including using substitution to examine for equivalence and using associative and commutative properties to make equivalent expressions. The double number line is used as a model for understanding exchange and equivalence.

 

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