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How Many of Each?

Students will work in pairs to create drawings that represent a specified number of objects.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

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  • Paper

Steps

  • Step 1

    Explain that the word "number" can represent how many objects are in a set. Have students form pairs. Ask each child in the pair to write the numerals 1 to 10 along the side of a paper. Then have each secretly write the name of an item next to each numeral. For example, one child may put "apple" next to 1, "flowers" next to 2, etc. Then have the students exchange their lists and create drawings based on the number of items as instructed by the list they were given.

  • Step 2

    Have the pairs present their work. Then have the class identify patterns, similarities and differences in the way teams approached this math-guided drawing experience.

  • Step 3

    Display the drawings with the lists of numerals and objects that guided the art.

Standards

MATH: Analyze, compare, create, and compose math ideas using written, oral, and drawn lines, shapes, forms, and patterns.  

MATH: Create models that demonstrate math concepts and attend to precision.

MATH: Write numbers from 0 to 20 (or a subset of that quantity). Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). 

Adaptations

Play a number memory game. One student begins by saying one item, for example, "One apple." The next student would repeat the first and add another, such as "One apple, two pencils." Each subsequent student repeats the previous numbers and items and adds a new one.

Go outside on a nice day and make a "number path" by drawing boxes with consecutive numerals with sidewalk chalk. Then have each student take a turn giving classmates a direction such as, "If you are wearing red, stand on the numeral that is one more than 7" or "If you are wearing yellow, stand on a numeral that is two steps away from 5."