Lecture/Lab Activity Notes

Activity: Before or After1

Name: __________________
Date: ____________

Common Core:
Counting and Cardinality K.CC
Compare numbers.
6. Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal
to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting
strategies.
7. Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.
*NCTM Content Standard (with justification):
Pre-K through Grade 2
Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and
number systems

develop understanding of the relative position and magnitude of whole numbers

and of ordinal and cardinal numbers and their connections;

*NCTM Process Standard (with justification):

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*Materials:
Playing cards 1-10 (all suits)

*Engagement:

*Exploration:
Deal all forty cards among the players. Each player keeps his/her cards face-down in
a pile. Player 1 turns over top card of his/her stack and places it in the middle of the
table. Player 2 turns over top card of his/her stack and tries to make a set of 1 more (or
one less) than the card on the table. If the player can make a set, the 2 nd player keeps the
cards. If not, the new (2nd) card becomes the new target card. And so on. (See pictures at
end of write-up.)

*Facilitating Questions:
Kamii, C. & Housman, L.B. (2000). Young children reinvent arithmetic: Implications of Piagets theory (2nd
ed.). New York: Teachers College Press.
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*Evaluation:

*Expansions/ Extensions (Activity Variations):

*Differentiation (Modifications for Diverse Learners):

Limit the cards used in the game to 1-6.

Use Dot Cards or Ten frame Cards

Diagrams/ Pictures/ Other: Target card from Player 1:

Possible set 1:

Possible set 2: