Cluster 2: Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction. (Major Cluster)Archived

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Number: MAFS.1.OA.2
Title: Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction. (Major Cluster)
Type: Cluster
Subject: Mathematics - Archived
Grade: 1
Domain-Subdomain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Related Standards

This cluster includes the following benchmarks.

Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Points

MAFS.1.OA.2.AP.4a
Recognize subtraction as the inverse of addition.
MAFS.1.OA.2.AP.3a
Recognize addition as commutative.

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Formative Assessments

Turtles in a Pond:

Students are given pairs of word problems that can be solved using the Commutative Property of addition.

Type: Formative Assessment

Using Inverse Operations:

Students identify an addition equation that can be used to solve a subtraction problem.

Type: Formative Assessment

Two Students' Strategies:

Students examine two related strategies to solve a subtraction problem.

Type: Formative Assessment

Does It Work For Subtraction?:

Students discuss if the Commutative Property holds for subtraction.

Type: Formative Assessment

Using Addition to Solve Subtraction Problems:

Students use the relationship between addition and one subtraction to solve a subtraction equation.

Type: Formative Assessment

Use Addition to Solve Subtraction:

Students are given a subtraction problem and asked to solve the problem using a related addition fact.

Type: Formative Assessment

Lemons and Oranges:

Students are given pairs of word problems that can be solved using the Commutative (and/or Associative) Property of addition.

Type: Formative Assessment

Justifying the Commutative Property of Addition:

Students work with cubes or color tiles to understand and justify the Commutative Property of addition.

Type: Formative Assessment

Lesson Plans

Let’s Find the Missing Addend:

This lesson will strengthen student understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction equations. Students will use counters and part-part whole boards to model restating subtraction equations as addition equations with a missing addend.

Type: Lesson Plan

Help Amelia Bedelia Look for the Missing Addend:

This lesson introduces the relationship between the related subtraction and addition in fact families and helps students understand that they can use the missing addend to help find the difference in related subtraction problems.

Type: Lesson Plan

Mystery Bag to 12:

This lesson deals with finding an unknown number in a subtraction equation by thinking addition and counting on. It utilizes the part-part-whole organizer and manipulatives to support the learning of students.

Type: Lesson Plan

Thinking Addition to Solve Subtraction Problems:

Students will use the knowledge of Sums of Ten and apply that skill to solve related subtraction problems. Students will learn the strategy Thinking Addition to solve subtraction problems.

Type: Lesson Plan

Related Equations:

Students will understand how addition and subtraction are related using math manipulatives.

Type: Lesson Plan

My Fact Family:

Students will use cut out people shapes and number cards to create two addition problems and two subtraction problems using the same three numbers of a fact family to explore the commutative property.

Type: Lesson Plan

Original Student Tutorial

Addition Switcheroo :

Change the order of the numbers in an addition sentence and use the counting on strategy to become quicker at your math facts in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Tutorial

Adding 5 + 3 + 6:

Learn how to add 5 + 3 + 6.

Type: Tutorial

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Original Student Tutorial

Addition Switcheroo :

Change the order of the numbers in an addition sentence and use the counting on strategy to become quicker at your math facts in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Tutorial

Adding 5 + 3 + 6:

Learn how to add 5 + 3 + 6.

Type: Tutorial

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