Lesson Plan: Counting Equal Groups
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to identify equal groups and count how many groups there are and how many objects are in each group.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- recognize equal groups,
- recognize that equal groups do not always look the same but always have the same number of objects,
- count how many groups there are in a model and how many objects are in each group,
- complete and write sentences identifying the number of groups in a model and the number of objects in each group.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- counting up to 20.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- arrays,
- the multiplication symbol.
