Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for decomposing numbers up to ten? Well bingo! Look no further as Composing and Decomposing Numbers Game Puzzles for Number Bonds to 10, CCSS K.OA.3, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for kindergarten elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this task as a homework assignment, kids will love working on these at home to study and improve their skills. This monster themed puzzle set includes 10 colorful jigsaw puzzles (covering numbers 1-10), answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a foldable bin or tub for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a craft project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a spiral notebook or journal as a model reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart. For these puzzles, students will match the number with two equivalent addition expressions. By solving the problems to sort, scoot, and match the puzzle pieces, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your kindergartners will love to practice and learn to develop strategies about how to decompose numbers! I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try! Relevant Kindergarten Common Core Standard K.OA.A.3 Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way. Cross Reference: Texas TEKS K.2I

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for telling time to the hour and half hour? Well bingo! Look no further as Telling Time to the Half Hour and Hours Puzzles, for CCSS 1.MD.3, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 1st grade elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this task as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these for at home to study and improve their skills. This puzzle set includes 24 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a foldable bin or tub for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a craft project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a spiral notebook or journal as a model reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart. These puzzles cover matching the time in word form, digital form, and on a visual picture of an analog clock. By solving the problems to sort, scoot and match the puzzle pieces, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your 1st graders will love to practice and learn to develop strategies about telling time to the nearest hour and half hour with this telling time game! I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try! Relevant Grade 1 Common Core Standard 1.MD.B.3 Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks. Cross Reference: Texas TEKS 1.7E and Virginia SOL 1.8