Teaching students to make teen numbers can be a challenging task for teachers. It requires a great deal of patience and creativity to come up with activities that can help students comprehend the concepts of addition and subtraction. When teaching students to make teen numbers, addition sentences can be a fun activity to experiment with. Here are a few activities to help your students become experts in creating addition sentences to make teen numbers.
Activity One: Teen Number Matching Game
A fun way to engage students and teach them to make teen numbers is through a matching game. This game requires a deck of cards with numbers ranging from 1-10. The students will pick two cards from the deck, add them together, and see if they can match the teen number on the gameboard. For instance, if a student picks up cards with numbers 8 and 4, they would add up the numbers to get 12 and then match that on the gameboard to images of sixteen or eighteen.
Activity Two: Teen Numbers with Counters
Use counters to help students grasp addition problems. Supply students with a set of counters and they must group them to display certain teen numbers. For instance, a student will group 9 counters with 1 counter to make 10, which is then added to 4 to make 14. This activity will help students develop an understanding of the base ten structure, odd and even numbers, and how to combine groups of numbers to make different sums.
Activity Three: Memory Challenge
Create a memory game to sharpen math problems skills, using a set of cards with addition sentences and determine whether the number is a teen number or not. Divide kids into pairs to race against the clock to see who can the most pairs. This game will focus on memorizing the sum of numbers to determine if they’re teen numbers and the equation that makes them.
Activity Four: Art Project
A fun art project, get students to decorate teen numbers to remember them better. Assign each student a specific teen number, and using a whiteboard and a variety of colors and materials, they will illustrate the number to understand it better. Students will note if it is even, odd, and what the equation is to make that number. Once completed, they can be posted around a classroom as a flashcard for a group reference and review.
In conclusion, teaching students to make teen numbers using addition sentences can be made fun with a range of hands-on activities. As school can be stressful for students at times, including interactive learning activities will brighten everyone’s day and increase student engagement, comprehension, and memorization skills.
