Making Tens the Pirate Way
Storyboard Description
This is a storyboard designed to illustrate how to make a ten using a 10 frame. Using a 10 frame allows students to visualize the process of mentally making 10. Example: 8+5 First, I move 2 from the five and add it to the 8. Now I have made a 10 and it is easier to add 10+3 than 8+5.
Storyboard Text
- Ahoy Mateys! Follow me treasure map and ye will learn how to use a ten frame when you want find the sum of two addends. Savvy?
- This strange creature be a ten frame. We be callin' it a ten frame because when all of the spaces are filled you have ten. Here be ten doubloons, ya scurvy dog!
- For example, If you wanted to find the sum of 8+5, you could use the ten frame to make a ten and then find the final answer using mental math, you scalliwag!
- 8+5=
- First, ye needs to put put the greater number into the ten frame. 8 is greater than 5, so into me ten frame she goes, matey!
- 8+5=
- Ye be pretty smart for an old salt! Next, we need to finish filling in the blasted ten frame with booty from the 5. Now that our ten frame be full we know that we have 10! The left over emeralds are stacked on the poop deck like cannonballs.
- 10+3=
- Now that our ten frame be full, we know that we have 10. Now we just need to count on the remaining emeralds. 10, 11, 12, 13! Did you notice how much easier it was to add 10+3 in your mind than 9+5? That's why ten frames are a great math tool, land lubber!
- 10+3= 13
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