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 will act out “add-to” and “result unknown” animal-themed word problems to model and solve. Students will use the Read–Represent–Write routine to demonstrate their understanding and thinking.

Students analyze a piece of jewelry by Douriean Fletcher to practice looking for groups, patterns, and quantities. Through Notice & Wonder and partner discussion, students connect what they see to strategies for adding two-digit numbers within 100.