Lesson Plan
Borrowing Center
Using base ten blocks, cards, and clear cups, your students will practice the concept of borrowing for subtraction problems in this lesson.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to borrow in subtraction.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Call students to your group area.
- Have a table with the cups (one set of 3 cups higher, one set of 3 in the middle, and one set of 3 lower using books to stack them, or tape them to your board) and your set of base ten blocks. The cups represent the hundreds (higher cups), tens (middle cups), and ones (lowest cups) place values.
- Write 2-8 on the board with 2 on top and 8 on the bottom, as in a subtraction problem.
- Ask students if they can subtract 8 from 2 while pointing at the numbers.
- When they say no, write a 1 in front of the 2 and ask if they can take 8 from 12.
- When they say yes, point out the addition of the 1 in front of the 2, which represents an addition of 10.