operations and number sense- with the Motion Math Hungry Fish iPad app

The First Grade Butterflies are learning, growing, and developing as mathematicians!

As mathematicians, the Butterflies have been developing their understanding of mathematical operations and their number sense. 

Focusing on the First Grade Math Operations and Algebraic Thinking Common Core Standard 1.OA, the Butterflies have been engaging in learning activities to support their understanding and application of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.

The Motion Math Hungry Fish iPad app encourages the Butterflies to think mathematically and apply operational understanding to compose a quantity (or decompose a quantity).

Butterfly Math Partners cooperatively engaged with the Motion Math Hungry Fish app to compose quantities in "addition" or decompose quantities in "subtraction".

Encouraging students' number recognition and use of mathematical language, iPad math partners alternate verbally stating the combinations (or decompositions) for a quantity, with the operation (for example- "3 plus 2 plus 5 is equal to 10"), and identifying the numbers referenced by the partner and manipulating the corresponding "bubbles" on the app screen to demonstrate the equation.

Butterfly Math Partners identifying combinations for a quantity

thinking about and identifying combinations
on the Motion Math Hungry Fish iPad app 



Mathematicians "sharing" thinking for
decomposing numbers for a quantity