A friend of mine opened her first grade child’s homework folder to find the assignment depicted below. She found herself wondering how to teach her son how to add complex numbers and do division to complete this assignment. Are these first grade concepts?

Well, yes….essentially they are. The concept of spiraled math is that the same math principals will be introduced and taught at each grade level with varied complexity. So with that in mind this assignment is appropriate for a first grader with the proper tools! A hundreds chart is a tool that can be used to teach how to add and subtract by tens easily. Thus completing the assignments for Monday and Tuesday with ease.

I created my Hundred’s Chart Bingo game to help first grade students learn how to add and subtract tens with ease while having fun! The player first draws a number from the first pile and places her finger on that number on the chart. Then the player draws a card from the second pile. That card tells them a number to add or subtract from the first number. The student slides their finger up the chart in the same column to subtract by tens and down the chart in the same column to add by tens. It’s that easy! Check out my Teachers Pay Teachers store to get the full description of the game here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hundreds-Chart-Bingo-Adding-and-Subtracting-by-Tens-955491

The Hundreds Chart Bingo game covers CCSS.1.NBT.C.4, CCSS.1.NBT.C.6 and practices the skills necessary to complete these computations as mental math which covers CCSS.1.NBT.C.5.

If you want to learn how to teach your child how to answer Wednesday and Thursday’s assignments from above check out my Turkey Tens set here:http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Turkey-Tens-2-Matching-Games-and-Word-Book-base-ten-blocks-and-ten-frame-928133