Description
What our Skip Counting (5, 10, 100) lesson plan includes
Lesson Objectives and Overview: Skip Counting (5, 10, 100) equips students to understand and apply methods of skip counting with 5, 10, and 100. At the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand and apply methods of skip counting with 5, 10, and 100. This lesson is for students in 2nd grade and 3rd grade.
Classroom Procedure
Every lesson plan provides you with a classroom procedure page that outlines a step-by-step guide to follow. You do not have to follow the guide exactly. The guide helps you organize the lesson and details when to hand out worksheets. It also lists information in the blue box that you might find useful. You will find the lesson objectives, state standards, and number of class sessions the lesson should take to complete in this area. In addition, it describes the supplies you will need as well as what and how you need to prepare beforehand.
Options for Lesson
Included with this lesson is an “Options for Lesson” section that lists a number of suggestions for activities to add to the lesson or substitutions for the ones already in the lesson. One optional addition to this lesson is to create puzzles from magazine photos by cutting the photos in strips and labeling each strip with a number sequence to help students practice skip counting. You can also have your students complete a Pass the Paper activity, where one paper is given to a group of students and they have to each write one number and pass the paper to the next student until they reach the target goal provided.
Teacher Notes
The teacher notes page includes lines that you can use to add your own notes as you’re preparing for this lesson.
SKIP COUNTING (5, 10, 100) LESSON PLAN CONTENT PAGES
Skip Counting
The Skip Counting (5, 10, 100) lesson plan includes two content pages. To skip count, you count by groups or sets instead of individual numbers or objects. By counting using groups, you’re learning a new level of numeracy.
It’s important to learn how to skip count, as it helps you move from only counting individual items to counting a set as a whole group. To start learning skip counting, students can hold up their hands and count first their fingers and then the number of fingers in the whole room. An easy way to count the whole group is to count by tens, since each person has ten fingers. This is skip counting! When counting large quantities of something, it’s easier to count sets.
Skip counting is also a valuable skill to learn to prepare to work with larger numbers and place value. Another easy exercise to demonstrate skip counting is to either use a ball or clap your hands and have students count along by 5s. Each time you clap or bounce the ball, they should skip count by 5.
Another way to practice skip counting is by solving real-world problems. Let’s take a look at an example: If a house has five windows, how many windows are in 3 houses? To solve, students should fill in the rows in the chart on the worksheet and create a drawing. As they solve, they are skip counting by 5.
Let’s take a look at another example: If an aquarium has ten fish, how many fish are in 3 aquariums? Have students fill in the rows in the chart on the worksheet and create a drawing. When solving, the students will skip count by 10.
For both of these examples, it’s important to reinforce that counting each individual window or fish takes more time than counting them as a group.
Skip counting is essentially just repeated addition, because you add the same number each time; there’s no reason to say all of the numbers in between. Because of this, skip counting is the foundation of multiplication!
SKIP COUNTING (5, 10, 100) LESSON PLAN WORKSHEETS
The Skip Counting (5, 10, 100) lesson plan includes four worksheets: an activity worksheet, a practice worksheet, a homework assignment, and a quiz. You can refer to the guide on the classroom procedure page to determine when to hand out each worksheet.
ICE CREAM ACTIVITY WORKSHEET
For the activity worksheet, students will cut our the shapes (ice cream cones and scoops of ice cream) on the worksheet and glue each scoop on top of each other in the correct order, using skip counting. They will then color their ice cream cone!
SKIP COUNTING PRACTICE WORKSHEET
The practice worksheet asks students to practice skip counting by completing several exercises. They will find the next number in different skip counting sequences, find missing numbers, draw pictures, and solve math problems.
HUNDREDS BOARD HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
For the homework assignment, students will use the hundreds board printed on the worksheet to follow each of the instructions listed.
QUIZ
This lesson also includes a quiz that you can use to test students’ understanding of the lesson material. For the quiz, students will practice skip counting by completing a few different exercises. They will find the next number in different skip counting sequences; skip count by 100, 10, and 5; and solve a math problem using skip counting.
Worksheet Answer Keys
This lesson plan includes answer keys for the practice worksheet and the quiz. If you choose to administer the lesson pages to your students via PDF, you will need to save a new file that omits these pages. Otherwise, you can simply print out the applicable pages and keep these as reference for yourself when grading assignments.
