Teaching Resource

Fact Family Rocket Blast Off - Blank Version

PDF | 2 pages|Grades: 1 - 3

A sorting activity to demonstrate an understanding of fact families.

Use this teaching resource when your students are learning about fact families.

Print the rocket ships and the blank number sentence cards on cardstock. Cut out the blank cards and write your own fact family facts on them. Store them in a resealable bag so that they can be used over and over again. Slide the rocketships into a dry erase sleeve so that students can write on them with dry-erase markers.

First, students will find 4 number sentences that belong in the same fact family and place them inside of a rocketship. Then, have them write the three numbers that make up each fact family in the circles at the top of the rocketship. Repeat until all three rocketships are completed.

This activity works well as a math center activity.

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Common Core

Common Core Curriculum alignment

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.B.3
Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.2 Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 ...
In Grade 1 Standards for Mathematical Practice Operations & Algebraic Thinking Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.6
Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - ...
In Grade 1 Standards for Mathematical Practice Operations & Algebraic Thinking Add and subtract within 20
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.5
Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
In Grade 2 Standards for Mathematical Practice Number & Operations in Base Ten Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.B.6
Understand division as an unknown-factor problem. For example, find 32 ÷ 8 by finding the number that makes 32 when multiplied by 8.
In Grade 3 Standards for Mathematical Practice Operations & Algebraic Thinking Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division

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