CCSS.Math.Content.2.OA.B
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Add and subtract within 20.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
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CCSS.Math.Content.2.OA.B is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.
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What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find sums and differences mentally and accurately. They use strategies such as making ten, using doubles, and connecting addition facts to subtraction facts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students answer addition and subtraction facts accurately and without counting every object. They use known facts, make-ten strategies, doubles, or related facts to explain their thinking.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat subtraction as commutative and think 6 − 4 equals 4 − 6. They may miscount when crossing ten or confuse related facts such as 8 + 7 and 15 − 8.
How to Assess It
- Give an exit ticket with 9 + 6, 14 − 8, and 7 + 8. Ask students to solve mentally and show one strategy for any problem.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs ten-frames and counters to model 8 + 7 and 15 − 8 by making or breaking apart ten.
Ask, “How are 7 + 8, 8 + 7, 15 − 7, and 15 − 8 connected?” Students draw and explain.
Play Fact Family Match with cards showing equations and matching number triangles, such as 6, 9, and 15.
Set up a classroom store with prices under 20 cents, then have students find totals and change using play coins.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.5
Fluently add and subtract within 5.
- 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, wit...
- CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C
The 1st Grade version of this standard.
- CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.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 + ...
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