This Warm-up prompts students to carefully analyze and compare features of four different drawings. In making comparisons, students have a reason to use language precisely (MP6). The activity also enables the teacher to hear the terminologies students know and how they talk about characteristics of drawings. During the Activity Synthesis, students discuss three drawings that show a group of 5 and some more. Analyzing different drawings will be helpful as students make drawings to represent story problems in upcoming activities.

• Display Images B, C, and D.
• “¿Por qué estas van juntas?” // “Why do these go together?” (They show 2 groups. They all have one group of 5.)
• “En la siguiente actividad, vamos a hacer dibujos para mostrar lo que ocurre en un problema-historia” // “In the next activity, we will draw pictures to show what is happening in a story problem.”

The purpose of this activity is for students to draw a picture to represent and solve a story problem (MP2). Many students may draw pictures with details, such as a drawing of students playing soccer. Students should have access to connecting cubes and two-color counters to help them represent the story (MP5).

The purpose of this activity is for students to compare drawings to represent story problems. Students participate in a Gallery Walk to see the different drawings that were created. Consider creating a cue or signal to indicate when students should move from one drawing to the next. In the Activity Synthesis, students compare and make connections between using detailed pictures and symbols such as circles, to represent the story. Students also share different ways to represent subtraction in a drawing (MP2).

The purpose of this activity is for students to choose from activities that offer practice with addition and subtraction, as well as describing and building shapes.

Students choose any previously introduced stage from these centers:

• Bingo
• Math Fingers
• Subtraction Towers
• 5-Frames
• Math Stories
• Counting Collections