First Grade Math Messages 4-1 Think about yesterday's weather. Do ...

First Grade Math Messages 

4-1 

Think about yesterday’s weather. Do you think the 

temperature today is warmer than, cooler than, or 

about the same as the temperature yesterday? 

4-2 

How would you tell someone how far it is across 

the classroom, using only your body or a part of 

your body to describe the distance? 

4-3 

An adult and a child measured the same thing with 

their feet. Why might they get different 

answers? 

4-4 

Estimate about how many feet it is from your seat 

to the meeting area. 

Call children to the meeting area in groups of 3 or 

4. Ask them to use the foot-long foot to measure 

and record in feet how far it is from their seat to 

the meeting area. 

First Grade Math Messages 1 

Everyday Math, 2007

4-5 

Look at the marks on your 6-inch ruler. Think abut 

what the marks might mean. 

4-6 

How could you measure the distance around your 

wrist? 

4-7 

Estimate about how many feet tall most of the 

first graders in our class are. 

4-8 

Draw a picture of a circular pizza. Divide the pizza 

into 2 pieces that are the same size. Then divide 

it into 4 pieces that are the same size. 

4-9 

Show quarter-past 6 o’clock on your tool-kit clock. 

4-10 

What is the largest 3-digit number you know? 



4-11 

Draw a domino. Write the 3 numbers that go with 

the domino. 

4-12 

Write 3 addition facts. 

4-13 

Complete the Self Assessment (Assessment 

Handbook, page 149). 

5-1 

Line up cubes next to a long. How many cubes equal 

the length of a long? 

5-2 

What number comes after 9? After 39? After 99? 

5-3 

Henry has 2 nickels and 1 dime. Ada has 2 dimes 

and 1 nickel. Who has more money? 



5-4 

Post one of the units and indicate the surface to 

be covered; for example, a number card and a 

table. 

About how many (units) would you need to cover 

(surface)? 

5-5 

A fox weighs 14 pounds. A cat weighs 7 pounds. 

What is their total weight? 

5-6 

Display pictures of four obviously different-size 

animals from Lesson 5-5. 

Which is heaviest? 

5-7 

Lou saved 5 cents. Lisa saved 8 cents. 

Who saved more money? How much more money? 



5-8 

Take out your Animal Cards. How much more does 

the koala weigh than the eagle? 

5-9 

1 + 6 = ___ 2 + 5 = ___ 

___ = 3 + 4 ___ = 4 + 3 

5 + 2 = ___ ___ = 6 + 1 

5-10 

Write 5 addition facts that you are sure about. 



5-11 

Write the turn-around fact for each of these 

facts: 

0 + 4 = 4 6 + 5 = 11 

8 = 3 + 5 10 = 2 + 8 

5-12 

How are these facts alike? 

1 + 1 7 + 1 

4 + 1 5 + 1 



5-13 

Draw a function machine on the board. 

If you put a 7 in the function machine, what 

number will come out? 

in --> out 

2 4 

6 8 

9 11 

10 12 

5-14 



6-1 

On your slate, write two addition facts that have 5 

as a sum. 



6-2 

On your slate, write as many addition facts as you 

can that have 7 as a sum. 

6-3 

Display Math masters, page 166. 

Take a half-sheet of paper and complete the 

problems. 

6-4 

Draw a 4/6 domino on the board. [:: I ::: ] 

Write the fact family for this domino. 

6-5 

Use the table on the inside front cover of your 

journal to solve: 

6 + 7 = ___ 

13 – 6 = ___ 

6-6 

Take 1 long. Measure it with both edges of your 

ruler. 



6-7 

Draw two different triangles on your slate. 

6-8 

Draw the function machine on the board. Put a 

question mark on the rule box. 

Find the rule. 

In / out 

1 / 3 

2 / 4 

3 / 5 

4 / 6 

7 / 9 

10 / 12 

6-9 

Use your tool-kit coins. Show two different ways 

to make 25¢ using dimes, nickels, and pennies. 



6-10 

Take a half-sheet of paper. Write the numbers 

you say when you count by 5s to 60. 

6-11 

Look through your My Reference Book. Be ready 

to share something you find interesting. Think 

about how this book can help you. 

6-12 

Program a calculator to count by 1s. How high can 

you count on the calculator in one minute? 

6-13 


Handbook, p. 157). 

7-1 

Take a block to use today. What shape is it? 

7-2 

Pick up one block to use today. 

What shape is it? What color is it? Is it large or 

small? 



7-3 

Take a pattern block. Find another person who has 

the same pattern-block shape. 

7-4 

Take 3 straws from each box. Take 15 twist-ties. 

Look for as many different shapes as you can in 

the room. Be ready to talk about what you see. 

7-5 

Which of these objects can roll? 

7-6 

Name an object that is shaped like a cone. 

7-7 

Take a sheet of paper with a picture of a heart. 

Carefully cut out the paper heart. 

7-8 





8-1 

1 nickel = _____ pennies 

1 dime = _____ pennies 

1 quarter = _____ pennies 

1 dime = _____ nickels 

1 quarter = _____ nickels 

8-2 

(Place the class blank near the Math Message.) 

Cut out the dollar bills from your Math Masters, 

pages 331 and 332. Put 5 bills in your money 

holder and the rest in the class bank. 

8-3 

Show 53 with base-10 blocks. 

8-4 

Turn to journal page 158. Pretend you have 1 

quarter, 2 dimes, and 2 nickels. Do you have 

enough money to buy a pencil and a pair of 

scissors? 



8-5 

You buy a toy elephant that costs 72¢. You pay 

with 3 quarters. How much money will you get 

back? 

8-6 

Draw a tally chart with the headings fruit bar, half 

of a fruit bar, and don’t know. Ask: Which would 

you want, a fruit bar or half a fruit bar? Make a 

tally mark to show your vote. 

8-7 

Look at the drinking glasses on journal page 168. 

Which glass is half full? 

8-8 

Take 14 pennies. If you share them equally with a 

friend, how many pennies will each of you have? 

8-9 

Take a piece of paper. Use you Pattern-Block 

Template to draw each pattern-block shape. Write 

the name of each shape. 



8-10 



9-1 

Count to yourself by 10s, starting at 57. Write 

down how far you counted. 

9-2 

Be ready to show how to use the number grid to 

solve these problems. 

15 + 8 = _____ 

24 + 10 = _____ 

32 – 6 = _____ 

28 – 10 = _____ 

9-3 

Take a quarter-sheet of paper. Fill in the missing 

numbers. 



9-4 

Take out your animal cards. Look at the side that 

shows the animal’s length in inches. Which animal 

is the shortest? Which is the longest? 

9-5 

Pretend that these 3 containers are filled with 

popcorn. Which container would hold the most 

popcorn? 

9-6 

Take a copy of Math Masters, page 267. Cut out 

each of the squares. 

9-7 

Take one copy of Math Masters, page 270. Write 

a fraction in each part of each fraction strip. 

9-8 

Cut your fraction strips apart. Stack the like 

fractions in piles. 

9-9 





10-1 

Look up the second measurement of your height on 

journal page 184. Write your second height 

measurement on a stick-on note. 

10-2 

How many minutes does it take for the minute 

hand to move around the clock? 

How many minutes does it take for the minute 

hand to move from the 2 to the 3? 

10-3 

A bag of sunflower seeds costs $0.60. Draw coin 

symbols to show one way to pay for them. Use (Q), 

(D), and (N). 

10-4 

Look at the vending machine on journal page 197. 

Draw two of your favorite snacks. Then draw the 

coins you need to buy the snacks. Use (Q), (D), and 

(N). 



10-5 

Take 10 long straws, 10 short straws, and 20 twistties. 

Find some triangles and other polygons in the 

room. 

10-6 

Which is cooler: 10º F or 40º F? 

Which is warmer: 5º F or 35º F? 

10-7 

How many pennies equal a dime? How many dimes 

equal a dollar? How many pennies equal a dollar? 

10-8 


handbook, page 173).

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