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Math Story: Act It Out
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Today I am practising: modeling a join or separate story with objects
1
Read: 5 birds sit on a fence. 3 more land. Act it out with counters.
2
Draw the two groups. What is the question asking for?
3
Write an equation for the bird story.
4
Read: 9 blocks are on a rug. 4 are put away. Cross out to show it.
5
Tell whether the blocks story grew or got smaller.
6
Make a tiny add-or-take-away story for an adult to act out.
- Use counters only as story characters; move them when the story says something changes.
- Ask what happened before naming an operation or symbol.
- Have the child say the answer as a sentence with the story object.