First Grade Formative Assessment Lessons
Number Relationships (Equal or Not Equal)
This lesson is intended to help you assess how well students are able to use various strategies to add and subtract within 20 using various strategies. It will help you to identify students who have difficulty recognizing equivalent equations and expressions, and or using strategies to determine related equations and expressions.
This lesson involves mathematical content in the standards from across the grade, with emphasis on: Operations and Algebraic Thinking 1.OA: Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction, add and subtract within 20, and work with addition and subtraction equations.
This lesson involves a range of Standards for Mathematical Practice, with emphasis on: 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
This lesson involves mathematical content in the standards from across the grade, with emphasis on: Operations and Algebraic Thinking 1.OA: Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction, add and subtract within 20, and work with addition and subtraction equations.
This lesson involves a range of Standards for Mathematical Practice, with emphasis on: 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Place Value Pieces of Hundreds Chart
This lesson is intended to help you assess how well students are able to count to count from any number and recognize patterns on the 100 chart that will help them to count on or back. It will also help you to assess how well they write numbers between 1 and 100. It will help you to identify students who have the following difficulties:
Recognizing patterns on the hundred chart.
Counting on or back from a given number
This lesson involves mathematical content in the standards from across the grade, with emphasis on: Number and Operations in Base Ten 1.NBT Extend the counting sequence and Understand place value.
This lesson involves a range of Standards for Mathematical Practice, with emphasis on: 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 7. Look at and make use of structure.
Recognizing patterns on the hundred chart.
Counting on or back from a given number
This lesson involves mathematical content in the standards from across the grade, with emphasis on: Number and Operations in Base Ten 1.NBT Extend the counting sequence and Understand place value.
This lesson involves a range of Standards for Mathematical Practice, with emphasis on: 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 7. Look at and make use of structure.
Formative Assessment Lessons written by other organizations
Fun in the Snow with Max and Ruby from New York City Dept of Education
UNIT OVERVIEW This 4-5 week unit is designed to introduce students to the operations of addition and subtraction, and to provide students the opportunity to apply these operations. Throughout the unit, students will model by counting all or taking away, and counting on. Guided practice with these methods will lead to growth in Grade 1 and fluency and precision in Grade 2. The Formative Assessment Lesson, All Aboard the Train, is embedded in the unit on page 54.
This Formative Assessment Lesson relates to the following Common Core State Standards:
1.OA.1 Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. 1.OA.4 Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 – 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8. Add and subtract within 20. 1.OA.5 Relate counting to addition and subtraction.
1.OA.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 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums.
Standards for Mathematical Practice: MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them; MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively; MP.3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others; MP.4 Model with mathematics; MP.6 Attend to precision; MP.7 Look for and make use of structure.
This Formative Assessment Lesson relates to the following Common Core State Standards:
1.OA.1 Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. 1.OA.4 Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 – 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8. Add and subtract within 20. 1.OA.5 Relate counting to addition and subtraction.
1.OA.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 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums.
Standards for Mathematical Practice: MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them; MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively; MP.3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others; MP.4 Model with mathematics; MP.6 Attend to precision; MP.7 Look for and make use of structure.