Lesson Plan
Ways to Represent Skip Counting
There are many ways to represent skip counting, so help students find their chosen method! Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for *Skip Counting to Understand Multiplication*.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Skip Counting to Understand Multiplication lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Skip Counting to Understand Multiplication lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to use skip counting as a strategy to multiply two single-digit factors.
Language
Students will be able to explain different representations of skip counting using visual aids and sentence starters.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Ask students to think about a common activity in which they all participate, such as getting to school each morning. Have them think of a few words or a short sentence to describe how they get to school, and direct them to share that information with a partner.
- Tell the class that you overheard several different ways that people get to school (e.g., riding the bus, riding in a car, walking, etc.), but the thing you noticed is that everyone has the same goal: get to school. Point out that everyone achieves the same goal each morning since they get to school, but that they use different ways to get there.
- Add that mathematics, and specifically multiplication, has many different methods for finding an answer. Share the Language Objective for today's lesson, and share that students will look at different methods of skip counting as a way to find answers to multiplication problems.