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LESSON PLAN

Number Concepts to 20

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Apothem Team
Grade 1 · Number
LESSON AT A GLANCE
Warm-up
5 min
Explore
15 min
Consolidate
10 min
Practice
12 min
Exit ticket
3 min

Warm-up

Flash a double ten-frame briefly: full left frame plus some on the right. Ask: How many? How did you know? Try quantities 11-19. Ask: What do you always see in the left frame? (Always 10.)

Explore

Pairs roll a number cube, move along a number line 0-20, and say each landing number as ten and ___. When above 10, the ten-frame is full; below 10 it is not. Ask: How many more to reach 20?

Consolidate

Practice

Students build numbers 11-20 on double ten-frames, record them as __ and __, and write the numeral. Exit ticket: show a double ten-frame with 16 and students write the number and say ten and ___.

Exit ticket

Students build numbers 11-20 on double ten-frames, record them as __ and __, and write the numeral. Exit ticket: show a double ten-frame with 16 and students write the number and say ten and ___.

TIP  Use the phrase ten and ___ consistently when showing 11-20 on the double ten-frame. This language directly builds base 10 understanding before symbolic notation arrives.
WORKED EXAMPLES
A student counts 17 by starting from 1 each time. How do you develop counting on?

Cover 10 objects and say: I already know there are 10 here. Start from 10 and count the rest: 10 ... 11, 12, 13, ... 17. You counted on from 10 without starting over.

A student writes 15 as 105. What misconception does this reveal?

They understand 15 as 10 and 5 but do not know these are written together. Use a place value mat showing tens and ones columns: 15 = 1 ten and 5 ones, written as 15.

MATERIALS
Double ten-frames
Counters in two colours
Number line 0-20
Hundred chart
Counting books from Native Northwest
WATCH FOR
!Students may treat 11-19 as unrelated new numbers rather than extensions of base 10. Consistent use of the double ten-frame and language ten-and-___ directly counters this.
!Skip-counting errors are common: the hundred chart as a visual anchor prevents losing track of the sequence.