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Unit Plan
Addition Detectives
This Mathematics unit covers a range of mental computation strategies for addition.
It consists of 8 lessons of approximately 60-minutes duration.
The sequence of lessons and suggested time frames should be regarded as a guide only; teachers should pace lessons in accordance with the individual learning needs of their class.
An assessment task for monitoring student understanding of the unit objectives is included and will require an additional lesson.
This unit plan includes the following resources:
- Addition Detectives PowerPoint
- Suspect Board Wall Display
- Number Talks – Double Digit Addition Task Cards
- Rainbow Numbers Worksheet
- Colorful Tens Frames
- Making Ten PowerPoint
- Jump Strategy PowerPoint
- Jump Strategy Worksheet
- Jump Strategy Addition Game
- Hundreds Board Mystery Picture Addition Task Cards
- Split Strategy PowerPoint
- Split Strategy Worksheet
- Split Strategy Addition Dominoes
- Addition and Subtraction Fact Families PowerPoint
- Fact Family Rocket Blast Off (Middle)
- Linking Addition and Subtraction Worksheet
- Compensation Strategy PowerPoint
- Find Your Detective Call Sign Worksheet
- Addition Strategies Worksheet
Overview
Objectives
- To reinforce student understanding of basic addition principles, using concrete materials.
- To recall 'friends of ten' facts and use this knowledge to solve addition sums.
- To explore the jump strategy for adding two- and three-digit numbers.
- To explore the use of number boards/hundreds charts when adding numbers.
- To progress student understanding of mental addition by partitioning numbers into place value to help them find a total.
- To investigate the relationship between addition and subtraction.
- To build upon students' understanding of addition and subtraction by exploring compensation.
- To reinforce that students can choose to use different addition strategies in different situations.
Addition Detectives is themed as an investigation in which students will uncover a new suspect at the end of each lesson. The unit concludes with the students narrowing down the list of suspects until only one remains.
Prior to commencing the unit, familiarise yourself with the Addition Detectives – Teaching Presentation. This presentation contains a consolidation activity for each lesson and will reveal the new suspects.
Create a display in the classroom by printing the Suspect Board Wall Display. Place the banner in a central location and put the pictures of the suspects in a large envelope (or similar), ready to add them to the display during each lesson.
This unit covers a range of addition concepts and strategies that increase in complexity. Teachers are encouraged to browse each lesson before beginning the unit and to adapt the lessons and teaching resources to suit the needs of their students.
Lessons
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACMNA053
Apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup numbers to at least 10 000 to assist calculations and solve problems
- ACMNA054
Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction
- ACMNA055
Recall addition facts for single-digit numbers and related subtraction facts to develop increasingly efficient mental strategies for computation
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My students ADORED this unit. If more maths units like this could be put together, that would be amazing!
Karina Ferguson · Mar 22nd, 2020
Hi Karina,
Thank you so much for your lovely feedback! I am so glad your students enjoyed uncovering the mystery in the Addition Detectives unit.
We will definitely take your suggestion into consideration when making our future units! Thanks again!
Tom (Teach Starter) · Mar 23rd, 2020
Hi Joanne,
The link is now included in the text of the lesson plan. Clicking on the hyperlink should take you directly to the video.
Paul (Teach Starter) · Feb 24th, 2020