moms' night out

Today during math we did a fun little activity to practice making up story problems, making the equations, and saying the equations out loud.

I used a big blow up die so the students could roll it to see what numbers to use in their equation. One student rolled the dice and then started to tell a story problem using that number. Then a second helper came up and rolled the die again to see what the second addend would be for the equation and then the rest of the kiddos showed the answer to the problem with their fingers. We used magnetic numbers on the whiteboard to show the equation and then we read the equation aloud to practice the math vocabulary (plus and equals).

We had many repeats of the sample problem I had given involving children who went to go play at the park.

Then it was Michael's turn....

He rolled a 2 and started his story problem:

2 moms went for a moms' night out at the Olive Garden....

SO cute!