Georgia 1.MP.7
The Standard
Look for and make use of structure.
Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards · Display perseverance and patience in problem-solving. Demonstrate skills and strategies needed to succeed in mathematics, including critical thinking, reasoning, and effective collaboration and expression. Seek help and apply feedback. Set and monitor goals.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students notice how numbers, shapes, and patterns are organized. They use groups, parts, and repeated features to solve problems more efficiently.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students spot useful groupings, repeated units, and parts within numbers or shapes. They use them to solve problems and explain why their approach works.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students see 14 as a 1 and a 4, not one ten and four ones. Others copy the last item in a pattern instead of finding the repeating unit.
How to Assess It
- Show 9 + 6. Ask students to split 6 into parts, solve by making ten, and draw or write how the parts helped.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs ten-frames and counters; students build 14, then explain how one full frame and four counters show its parts.
Show 8 + 5 and ask, "What parts can you see that make it easier to solve?"
Play Structure Snap: students match equation cards, ten-frame cards, and number cards that represent the same amount.
Photograph floor tiles or window panes, then have students mark repeated shapes, rows, columns, and groups they notice.
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