Wyoming Math 1.NBT.4
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Add within 100, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value: Including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number. Adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten. Relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
2023 Wyoming Mathematics Content and Performance Standards · Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
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1.NBT.4 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.
- 1.NBT.4a
Including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number.
- 1.NBT.4b
Adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10.
- 1.NBT.4c
Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.
- 1.NBT.4d
Relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
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What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students add within 100 using blocks or drawings, including adding one-digit and two-digit numbers to two-digit numbers. They combine tens with tens and ones with ones, making a new ten when needed. They show how their model matches a written method and explain their steps.
What Mastery Looks Like
- For 27 + 15, a student shows 3 tens and 12 ones, trades 10 ones for a ten, and writes 42. For 36 + 20, they keep the 6 ones and get 56.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students write 27 + 15 = 312 because they leave 12 ones instead of making a ten. Others change the ones digit when adding 20 or count a traded ten twice.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Draw tens and ones to solve 28 + 15, then write the matching equation. Show where you trade 10 ones for a ten.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs base-ten rods and cubes to build 28 + 15, trade 10 cubes for a rod, and record the sum.
Ask students to draw 34 + 20 and write why the tens change but the ones stay the same.
Play a card game: draw two numbers from 10 to 49, sketch tens and ones, add, and check a partner's work.
Tell students a library has 28 books and receives 15 more, then have them sketch and total the books.
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Related Standards
- 2.NBT.7
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- 3.NBT.2
Fluently add and subtract within 1,000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of addition, and/or the relationship between addition an...
- 2.NBT.5
Add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of addition, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
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