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Students need to know "how many in all" versus "how many of each critter"

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Students need to know "how many in all" versus "how many of each critter"

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We could use manipulatives of tiles or unifix cubes to symbolize the heads or legs. 

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We could use manipulatives of tiles or unifix cubes to symbolize the heads or legs. 

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Students would need to know the amount of legs per animals. 

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Students would need to know the amount of legs per animals. 

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how many heads and legs does each animal have

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how many heads and legs does each animal have

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Students need to know how many legs each animal has

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Drawings of the animals in circles with lines for the legs. Students can recognize when they have enough legs for each of the 15 heads.

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Drawings of the animals in circles with lines for the legs. Students can recognize when they have enough legs for each of the 15 heads.

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I would use unifix cubes or other items to demonstrate the different arrangement of legs/possible outcomes.

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I would use unifix cubes or other items to demonstrate the different arrangement of legs/possible outcomes.

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¨how many¨
skip counting

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Go over each animal to activate prior knowledge. Legs in ostrich; legs in giraffe 

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Go over each animal to activate prior knowledge. Legs in ostrich; legs in giraffe 

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Addition, repeated addition

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This could lead to great conversations, and student explanations.

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This could lead to great conversations, and student explanations.

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animal figurines

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Start with drawing 15 circles for heads, then add 2 legs to each and then double each one until you get to 44

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Start with drawing 15 circles for heads, then add 2 legs to each and then double each one until you get to 44

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yes- I also started by drawing the 15 heads and then added the legs

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Popsicle sticks for legs and draw circles for heads

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Popsicle sticks for legs and draw circles for heads

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Unifix cubes exploring different answers

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project pictures of each animal so students can see how many legs each one has

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project pictures of each animal so students can see how many legs each one has

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Point out key words- 15 heads, ostriches have 2 legs, giraffes' have 4

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Point out key words- 15 heads, ostriches have 2 legs, giraffes' have 4

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Drawings. Explanation of answer.

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Unifix cubes

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skip counting by 4's and then skip  counting by 2's-process of elimination

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skip counting by 4's and then skip  counting by 2's-process of elimination

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Counting by 2s and 4s

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how many heads and legs does each animal have

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how many heads and legs does each animal have

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drawing, labeling, skip count.

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Ditto

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Manipulatives, popsicle sticks, markers, paper, white boards

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Being able to count and think cognitively

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Have a discussion about the animals listed and legs. Approach the word problem from a sequenced way of solving. Draw the heads first, then the lesser amt. of legs.

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They will need to be able to draw a total of 15 circles and from there reason with how many legs each animal has, skip count and then continue to do process of elimination

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They will need to be able to draw a total of 15 circles and from there reason with how many legs each animal has, skip count and then continue to do process of elimination

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Paper
Pencil

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2.OA.1 I can solve addition and subtraction word problems within 100

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Change the animals to something you are working with in another contenct areas. For example: Penguins and polar bears (from benchmark close reading passages).

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counting, grouping, skip counting

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Making charts to organize your thinking.

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Know how many legs a giraffe and ostrich have.

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start with both animals have at least 2 legs.

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start with both animals have at least 2 legs.

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Drawing pictures circles and lines starting with 15 heads. Add 2 legs at a time for each head then add 2 more until you count to 44. 

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Drawing pictures circles and lines starting with 15 heads. Add 2 legs at a time for each head then add 2 more until you count to 44. 

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speaking clearly to share your thinking.

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speaking clearly to share your thinking.

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Discuss the problem.

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Use different colored unifix cubes so one color can be the head, and the other color can be the legs.  Then, trial and error "building" the animals.

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Use different colored unifix cubes so one color can be the head, and the other color can be the legs.  Then, trial and error "building" the animals.