Unit 8: Grade 1 Lessons

This activity focuses on representing money amounts to 50 cents in different ways. To start, students review the names and values of Canadian coins, then discuss how much money is in a small collection of coins.

In pairs, students find the total value of a small collection of coins, then show the same amount in different ways. To consolidate, students share the strategies they used to show an amount in different ways, then discuss how coins can be traded for other coins. The concept of trading coins will further build students’ understanding of equality.

In this lesson, children learn to make a mathematical model in order to predict the number of candies required for a candy bag. Major foci include determining important questions that need answering, missing information that is needed to solve the problem, and making assumptions about missing information.

In this lesson, students are challenged to find a route for a hockey player around numerous obstacles down the ice to the opposing team’s goal.