Students will use the elements of visual art to create a composition inspired by painter Piet Mondrian that models and solves addition problems within 10, with an optional extension of adding within 20.

Students create and perform body percussion patterns using clapping, stomping, and snapping to represent and solve subtraction equations within 10.

Students use the familiar tune and movements of “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” to identify the place value of each digit in a multi-digit number.

Students become architects designing a block of Baltimore row homes. They will sketch rows of connected row homes and use floors and windows to model the Associative Property of Multiplication.

Students use folding to create a paper quilt to explore the Associative Property of Multiplication. Students fold their paper in different sequences to create the same number of equal sections, discovering that changing how the folds are grouped changes the process but not the total number of panels.