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Lumi's Bead Mysteries: How Many to Start?
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About
Lumi the lemur helps first graders solve take-away stories where the start is a mystery. Students add two-digit numbers in their heads, hear Ivy's bead story three times, find how many beads were in the jar to start, and fill in both equations for it. Then one picture of beads tells three stories, and students find where the question is in each one. Every direction is read aloud, and every wrong answer gets a spoken hint.
Lesson details
- Grade level
- 1st Grade
- Subjects
- Standards
- 1.OA.A.1
- 1.OA.C.6
- 1.NBT.C.4
- Length
- 17 scenes, 14 questions
- What students do
- Multiple choice
- Number sentences
- Audio
- Includes audio
- Scoring
- Includes scored questions
- Last updated
What's included
- 18 narrated scenes with Lumi the lemur
- A Number Talk: four two-digit sums on a digit pad
- Ivy's bead story told three times, with tap-to-hear cards
- One picture of beads that tells three take-away stories
- A spoken hint after every wrong answer
Learning objectives
- Add two-digit numbers in your head, using one sum to find the next.
- Solve a take-away story where the start is a mystery, by putting back what was taken.
- Find where the question is in one picture for three take-away stories, and answer each.
