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Fact Families SMARTBoard Lesson Plan

**Grade Level**: 1st and 2nd **Task:** This is a great introduction to fact families. It is difficult for young students to think in abstract ways so fact families seem to be harder for them to grasp. With this lesson I will model how numbers are used in different ways and how a group of three numbers can all be realted to eachother, hence fact family. **Step 1: **In slides 2 through 7 students will use houses to understand the concept of fact families. To demonstrate the relationship, students will use the numbers on the roofs of the houses and create equations. Students will use the SMARTBoard to drag and clone the numbers from the roof into the pre-made equations that I have placed on the front of the house (ex: ___ +__ _ = ___). By using the houses, students can think about how a family lives in the house together. They can connect the numbers to this concept.
 * Process: **
 * Step 2: **In slides 8 through 12 students will use triangles to create fact families. In each angle of the large triangle is a number. The three numbers in the triangle has a fact family relationship. Students will go up to the SMARTBoard to drag and clone the numbers from the triangle into the pre-made equations that I have placed under the large triangle. These are called "Fact Triangles" in the math world.
 * Step 3: **In slides 13 through 15, students will use multi-colored cubes to try to figure out which numbers will make up the fact family portrayed. To do so, students will need to count the number of purple cubes. That number will be the first number in the fact family. Then they will need to count the number of yellow cubes. That number will be the second number in the fact family. Then, to figure out the third number in the fact family, they will need to add or subtract those two numbers. They will need to determine which sum or difference will be used for the third number by looking at the relationship between all the numbers. They will come up to the SMARTBoard to write in the numbers of the fact family.

Here is a link to my lesson: ‍‍‍‍
 * Note: in order to open this lesson, you must download the Notebook software from the [|SMART Technology website].**