This blog is maintained by a first grade teacher in Texas named Cara Carroll. She is a classroom teacher who is responsible for all content areas, but she is a great resource for math activities in grade 1. The activity I would like to highlight is one meant to be done independently by students or in partners and it's working on odd and even numbers. The students flip a coin and if it lands on heads, they cover an even number with a red cube; if it lands on tails, they cover an odd number with a blue cube. This would make a great centers activity (as would many of her math posts on her blog) and would be a great way for students to become familiar with numbers on a 100s chart as well as with the characteristics of odd and even numbers.
Standards:
The standards addressed for the lesson mention and linked above are not in the first grade standards but this skill is helpful, if not essential, for students to access the second grade standard 2.OA.3. Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends. Students need to know what odd and even means to be able to meet the second grade standards and this activity can help them do that.
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