Building Thinking Classrooms 100 Chart, Decompose 10, Skip Counting & Fair Share

Are you looking for a collection of Building Thinking Classrooms style math tasks to help your students decompose numbers to 10, skip count by 5s work on numbers to 100, and begin to make sense of fractions and fair shares? 

These low floor high ceiling math tasks are for you! This resource comes with Google Slides and PowerPoint versions of the task launch, done-for-you thin slicing, and 3 levels of challenging but achievable check-your-understanding questions!

These tasks are no-prep and powerful! The best thing about these tasks is students can make sense of them! Just print the recording sheets and launch the task! A perfect time-saving math activity when you are short on planning time or energy, but want your students to engage in rich, low floor high ceiling math tasks!

The Tasks!

• 100 Chart Thief - Find the Numbers to 100 the 100 Chart Thief stole!
• How Many Goals? - Decomposing Numbers to 10
• Skip Counting By 5’s- Repeated Addition with Dice
• 7 Cupcakes - Beginning Fractions and Fair Shares

What’s Included?

• 4 Google Slides and Powerpoint Task Launch and Partner Expectations slides
• 4 PDF with
  • Step-by-step Task Directions
  • Recording Sheets
  • Thin Slicing Ideas
  • Mild, Medium, and Spicy Check Your Understanding Sheets
  • Answer Keys 
  • Table of Contents
  • Building Thinking Classrooms Terms Cheatsheet and additional resources
    

How to use

Going through this task from start to finish can take 1-2 class periods depending on the task, and your students, especially if you are giving your students ample time to support each other and move through all the difficulty levels.

1. Make copies of check your understanding recording sheets.
2. Introduce the task in either PowerPoint or Google Slides.
3. Give your students random partners and let them work together with whiteboards and markers to solve.
4. Give them a choice of which Check Your Understanding activity they would like to do to reinforce and apply the strategies they worked on. 

These tasks are perfect if you are just beginning to implement the Building Thinking Classrooms Framework. Even if you are unfamiliar with the Building Thinking Classrooms Framework, these tasks are a fantastic way to engage your students in math tasks they will love with detailed task directions, PowerPoint and Google slides visual supports, and recording sheets!

Your students will practice

✅100 Chart Patterns

✅Double Digit Number Writing and Recognition

✅Fair Shares and Beginning Fractions

✅Decomposing Numbers to 10

✅Skip Counting By 5

✅Critical Thinking

✅ Social skills and cooperative learning

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