1st Grade Subtraction Missing Addend Game Puzzles Unknown Number Addition

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for missing part addends? Well look no further as Subtraction as Missing Addend Game Puzzles, for CCSS 1.OA.4, 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 game 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 as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to improve their skills.

This basketball themed puzzle set includes 40 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 tub or bin for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a notebook or journal as a reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers representing a subtraction problem in the form of an equation with an unknown addend. By solving the problems to sort and match the puzzle pieces, students can gain confidence in an important skill. Your first graders will love to practice and learn to develop strategies about finding missing addends with this resource!

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.OA.B.4
Understand subtraction as an unknown addend problem. For example, subtract 10 - 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.