Other Options

NC.1.NBT.1

• Use 8 base ten blocks to make a number. Can you make a different number with a different set of 8 blocks?

• Draw a number line with the endpoints of 0 and 120. Place a dot on the number line. What number on the number line does the dot represent? How do you know?

NC.1.NBT.2

• How many different ways can you represent 82 using tens and ones?

• Does 4 tens and 8 ones have the same value as 3 tens and 18 ones? Explain your thinking.

• Do 2 tens and 6 ones have the same value as 2 ones and 6 tens? Use models and/or hundreds chart to help explain your answer.

• A two-digit number has more tens than ones. What could the number be? What is another possibility?

• The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is12. Use a hundred chart, what could the number be? What is another possibility?

• How are the numbers 30 and 35 alike? How are they different?

• Kendra made a two-digit number with a 6 in the ones place. What possible numbers could she have made?

NC.1.MD.4

• How could you sort a group of toys (stuffed animals, balls, and trains) and make a graph to show how many toys are in the different groups?

• Think about a question you might ask your classmates to which there are three possible answers. Conduct a survey and then graph the results by using either a pictograph or a bar graph.

Other Options

NC.1.OA.1

• Gail and Bill found 12 seashells on the beach. Some of them were shaped like cones. The rest of them were shaped like half circles. How many could have been shaped like cones? How many could have been shaped like half circles?

• Maria has eight more crayons than Brian. Maria has 10 crayons. How many crayons does Brian have? Use this answer to solve the next question.

• Ana has 4 crayons. If she puts her crayons with Brian and Maria’s crayons, will they have enough crayons to fill a box that holds 16 crayons? How do you know?

• Jim had sixteen toy cars. He went to the toy store with his father. His father bought him some more cars. When Jim got home, he counted his cars and then he had 20. How many cars did his father buy for him?

• On Monday, Cara made 5 cupcakes. On Tuesday, Cara made some more. She had 11 cupcakes altogether. How many cupcakes did Cara make on Tuesday?

NC.1.OA.3

• How would you describe the commutative property to someone from another planet?

• Show me 2 different examples that proves the commutative property.

• Why does the total stay the same, even though you are adding in a different order? (example 6+5=11 and 5+6=11) Use drawings and/or models to help explain.

• Would you get the same sum if you had two blue buttons and three red buttons as you would if you had three blue buttons and two red buttons? Can you write the addition sentences that show that?

• Laura had 5 fish. Her mother gave her 1 more. Laura’s brother Frank had 1 fish. Their mother gave Frank 5 more. Laura cried, “That’s not fair! He has more fish than I do!” Frank doesn’t agree. Who is correct? How do you know?

• I own a pet store. There are 9 dogs, 1 cat and 3 fish in the store. How many pets are in the store? What number sentence could you write to match this story problem? Where is 10 in this number sentence? What new number sentence could we write to match what we did?

• Laura solved the following problem: 7 + 2 + 3 = 12 How do you decide which numbers to add together first? What “friendly” number combinations do you see? Will we get the same number if we solve it different ways?

NC.1.OA.6

• How is 9+2 related to 29+2, 49+2, and 79+2?

• How does the make-ten fact, 4+6 help you find the sum of 34+6 or 54+6?

• Does the doubles strategy work with numbers greater than 10?

• When we subtract 2 we can think of counting back. Does this work with two-digit numbers? How are 61-2, 31-2, and 11-2 related?

• How could you use doubles to help you find the sum of 7 + 6?

• Julie picked out three different dominoes out of a pile of dominoes. If she added the dots on each domino, the sum of each domino was 10. What could the three different addition sentences be for the three dominoes she picked?