Pick a Stick
This game, which plays similarly to “War”, provides a fun opportunity for students to practice their math skills.
Standards
Idea Sheets are cross-referenced to subjects listed in the Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and California Content Standards.
Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Kindergarten||Mathematical Practices|||K.OA.1. Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings2, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.||Common Core Mathematics||Kindergarten||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Understand Addition As Putting Together And Adding To, And Under- Stand Subtraction As Taking Apart And Taking From|||K.OA.4. For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.||Common Core Mathematics||Kindergarten||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Understand Addition As Putting Together And Adding To, And Under- Stand Subtraction As Taking Apart And Taking From|||K.OA.5. Fluently add and subtract within 5.||Common Core Mathematics||Kindergarten||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Understand Addition As Putting Together And Adding To, And Under- Stand Subtraction As Taking Apart And Taking From|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Mathematical Practices|||1.NBT.4. Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Add And Subtract|||1.NBT.5. Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Add And Subtract|||1.NBT.6. Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (positive or zero differences), using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Add And Subtract|||1.OA.3. Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.3 Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.)||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Understand And Apply Properties Of Operations And The Relationship Between Addition And Subtraction|||1.OA.4. Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 ? 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Understand And Apply Properties Of Operations And The Relationship Between Addition And Subtraction|||1.OA.5. Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Add And Subtract Within 20|||1.OA.6. Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 ? 4 = 13 ? 3 ? 1 = 10 ? 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 ? 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Add And Subtract Within 20|||1.OA.7. Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. For example, which of the following equations are true and which are false? 6 = 6, 7 = 8 ? 1, 5 + 2 = 2 + 5, 4 + 1 = 5 + 2.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Work With Addition And Subtraction Equations|||1.OA.8. Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = ? ? 3, 6 + 6 = ?.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Work With Addition And Subtraction Equations|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 2||Mathematical Practices|||2.NBT.5. Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 2||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Add And Subtract|||2.NBT.6. Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 2||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Add And Subtract|||2.NBT.7. Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three- digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 2||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Add And Subtract|||2.NBT.8. Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100?900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100?900.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 2||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Add And Subtract|||2.OA.2. Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2 By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 2||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Add And Subtract Within 20|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 3||Mathematical Practices|||3.NBT.2. Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 3||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Perform Multi-Digit Arithmetic.4|||3.NBT.3. Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10?90 (e.g., 9 ? 80, 5 ? 60) using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 3||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Perform Multi-Digit Arithmetic.4|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 4||Mathematical Practices|||4.NBT.4. Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 4||Number And Operations In Base Ten2||Use Place Value Understanding And Properties Of Operations To Perform Multi-Digit Arithmetic|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 5||Mathematical Practices|||5.NBT.5. Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 5||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Perform Operations With Multi-Digit Whole Numbers And With Decimals To Hundredths|||5.NBT.7. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 5||Number And Operations In Base Ten||Perform Operations With Multi-Digit Whole Numbers And With Decimals To Hundredths|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 6||Mathematical Practices|||6.NS.3. Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 6||The Number System||Compute Fluently With Multi-Digit Numbers And Find Common Factors And Multiples
2.0 Students understand and describe simple additions and subtractions.||CA Mathematics||Grade Kindergarten||01. Number Sense|||2.0 Students demonstrate the meaning of addition and subtraction and use these operations to solve problems.||CA Mathematics||Grade 1||01. Number Sense|||2.0 Students solve problems and justify their reasoning.||CA Mathematics||Grade 1||05. Mathematical Reasoning|||2.0 Students solve problems and justify their reasoning.||CA Mathematics||Grade 2||05. Mathematical Reasoning|||2.0 Students estimate, calculate, and solve problems involving addition and subtraction of two- and three-digit numbers.||CA Mathematics||Grade 2||01. Number Sense|||3.0 Students model and solve simple problems involving multiplication and division.||CA Mathematics||Grade 2||01. Number Sense|||2.0 Students calculate and solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.||CA Mathematics||Grade 3||01. Number Sense|||2.0 Students use strategies, skills, and concepts in finding solutions.||CA Mathematics||Grade 4||05. Mathematical Reasoning|||2.0 Students use strategies, skills and concepts in finding solutions.||CA Mathematics||Grade 5||05. Mathematical Reasoning|||2.0 Students use strategies, skills and concepts in finding solutions.||CA Mathematics||Grade 6||05. Mathematical Reasoning
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