Ten Black Dots
by Donald Crews

*This book lesson is appropriate for grades 1-3.

I. Introduction
What can you do with ten black dots? This book helps children relate everyday situations to mathematics. It focuses on critical thinking and geometric and spatial skills. The objective is to help children to learn and practice math facts that add up to ten.

II. PASS Standards:
a. Geometry/spatial sense
b. Critical thinking
c     uses manipulatives

III. Lesson structure:
a. Introduce book/ read to students.
b. Ask relevant questions during story:
-What can you do with ten black dots?
- Do you see anything in the classroom with black dots?
-How many dots are total if we add the snowman and the beads together?
-If five black balloons fly away, how many are left?

Memory Ten

     IV.      Materials
c. Dot cards (0-10 four of each)
V.       Procedure
` 2-3 people can play this game. The object is to get two cards that total ten.

· Arrange 20 of the cards face down on the table, in even rows (ex. 4 rows of five). Leave the rest face down in a pile on the table.
· Take turns. On a turn, turn over a card and then another.
-If the total is less than 10, turn over another card.
-If the total is more than 10, the cards are turned back over and kept in the same place. Your turn is over.
-If the total is 10, take the cards and replace them with the cards from the deck. You get another turn.
· Keep track of your 10 combinations in separate piles.
· The game is over when no more combinations can be made.
· Try the game with subtraction!
 
 

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