ESOL STRATEGIES FOR MATH!!! Number Hat

Number Hat

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards

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MACC.1.OA.2.3 Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract. 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 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.) 

Common Core Standards

• CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.A.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

ESOL Standards
10) Analyze student language and determine appropriate instructional strategies, using knowledge of phonology, morphology, syntax semantics, and discourse.

Directions:

• Make a cardboard crown (big enough to fit your children's heads) and decorate with colored pom poms, metallic card, sequins etc... The crown / hat can be used in maths oral and mental starters to practice number bonds.

• A child at the front of the class wears the hat and the teacher blue tacks a number from 0 - 10 on the front of it, keeping it hidden from the hat wearer. The rest of the class looks at the number and works out what they need to add to it to make 10. They could show the answer on their fingers or a number fan.

• The hat wearer then knows what they must add to the number on the hat to make 10 so they can work out the hidden hat number. e.g. number on the hat is 6, the class hold up 4 fingers. The hat wearer works out what they need to add to 4 to make 10 and this is the number on the hat. You could extend this to practicing number bonds to 20, 50, 100, 1000 etc or even blue tack a 2D shape to the hat and the class gives the hat wearer clues so they can work out what shape is on the hat (e.g. this shape has 3 corners).

• The number hat can be used for any activity involving guessing what the hidden number, shape, coin is.