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Fact Families

3/28/2016

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In first grade, fact families are a big deal. We are all about playing around with numbers to see the different relationships that form.
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Our favorite way to practice fact families is through centers! I started doing math centers this past fall after attending an SDE conference. I went to Reagan Tunstall’s session on guided math groups and fell in love! We don’t get to centers every day, unfortunately, but they BEG for them! Sometimes we even choose to do math centers instead of indoor recess. (My kids are crazy…crazy awesome!)

ANYWAY. Back to fact families. Here are some of our favorite centers to practice those pesky fact families!

I love Three Corner! Basically, it’s a fact family triangle. The sum or whole is always on the top in purple and the parts or addends are on the bottom in blue. We switch up covering up either the part or the whole to practice! I do this whole group as a warm up a lot of the time under my document camera. We use them in a center and the kids quiz each other. This builds great number sense!
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We always use dice in our room. Here kiddos would roll two dice for the two parts, then write down the whole. Then we would write the fact family to match. This page is from Brown Bag Teacher.
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In my small group, we practiced moving numbers around with playing cards. This concrete moving of the numbers really helped my lower students see how the numbers related to each other. The kiddos practiced writing the related facts as we moved them around.
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This is the same idea as the triangles above, but this time its our turn to create the facts. We would roll a dice twice and write the two numbers on the bottom part of the triangle (blue). We then add then numbers together to find the sum and write it at the top (green). It’s then time to write out the fact family in the middle! I love that they are dry erase!
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We LOVE the iPod center. Here are two of our favorite games. They aren’t exactly “fact family” practice, but simple addition and subtraction practice. 
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One fun app is Math Duel. Two students (or teams) compete to answer the question. The kiddos get really into this game!

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Math Bingo is by ABCya and is super fun! You figure out the math fact, then find the answer. Once you answer correctly, you get a little bug on that space. When you reach bingo, you get to play a game with the bugs. We love it!

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​How do you practice fact families in your room? Any other fun tips you can share?

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Yanique link
3/29/2016 06:42:10 pm

These are great tips for practicing fact families. My son is in second grade and they are reviewing fact families so this is a great help. Thanks for sharing!

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Nancy Strout link
3/29/2016 06:57:20 pm

Love all of these great ideas! Thanks for the two apps.

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Melanie
3/29/2016 08:41:10 pm

Great ideas!! I am not teaching math this year, only literacy, but I love these ideas and will send my teammate your way to check these out!!

Thank you :)

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Laura link
3/30/2016 07:03:54 am

I love this ideas! Can't wait to try them. I also love the clean design of your blog!

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2 Teachers 1 Goal link
3/30/2016 08:03:32 am

I love teaching fact families! I loved seeing how it works in younger graders! We teach third graders! :)

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Sarah Sewell
4/1/2016 01:14:26 pm

Lots of new ideas to try for fact families! Thanks for sharing!

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