Game Instructions
We are going to play a subtraction game using the “Take It Away Game Cards.”
If you do not have a printer to print out the Take It Away game cards, you can use 10 of any object you have in your house.
STEM Exploration Lesson
Subtraction: Take it Away Game
Grades: K-1
Time: 30 minutes
Overview
Play a game to practice subtraction.
Materials
Goals
Objectives
Common Core Math Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
Materials
Optional: 10 of any item in your house (such as 10 socks, or 10 shoes, or 10 toys, or 10 spoons, or 10 candies, or 10 crayons, or 10 of anything!)
Goals
- Think about what things we can subtract;
- Learn to use language and signs associated with subtraction; and
- Practice subtracting objects.
Objectives
- Subtract objects used in ancient Hawaiʻi; or
- Subtract objects you use around the house.
Common Core Math Standards
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4.b
Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.D.7
Understand the meaning of the equal sign.
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.2
Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.1
Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.5
Fluently add and subtract within 5.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.D.8
Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = _ – 3, 6 + 6 = _.
Next Generation Science Standards
ESS3.A:
Natural Resources. Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Humans use natural resources for everything they do. (K-ESS3-1)
