Teaching Number Sense, Grade 1

Lessons in this book are organized in an accessible, easy-to-read format that includes an overview, a materials list, the lesson duration, step-by-step teaching directions, and vignettes of how the lesson actually unfolded in a classroom. Each lesson concludes with a list of assessment questions to help guide teacher observations. In this book, children build their understanding of counting, number relationships, and landmark numbers. They also develop computation strategies, further their understanding of composing and decomposing numbers, and develop a beginning sense of place value.