[Cyrene St. Amant]

I am a first grade with a general ed classroom and I have found that Floor Maps are my “go to” EASE Integration activity. I have used it to teach Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, Drama, and Standard English instruction. One of our favorite activities is to play “Partners to 10”. We use Eureka Math (Engage NY) curriculum and “Partners to 10” is an EM activity that provides students fluency practice in decomposing/composing 10. Basically the teacher either says a number or shows fingers to represent a number between 0 -10 and students shout out or show with fingers a number that represents the number needed to compose 10.

Instead of me always leading the activity, we create a Floor Map in the shape of an “H” with line that bisects a central pathway. There are x’s on each end of the pathway and on both sides of the line in the center. The students form two lines along each side of the pathway. Students from opposite ends of each line stand on the x’s at each end. Student A holds up fingers to represent a number between 0-10. Student B holds up fingers to represent a number needed to compose 10. To keep all the students interested in the activity, the students in line use hand signals to show if they agree or disagree with the number combinations. If they agree, we all recite, “A + B = 10.” If there are disagreements, we discuss them and student B fixes their representation or “partner” to 10. The children really look forward to this activity. It is flexible and we have used it to not just compose addition equations, but to tell math stories and do subtraction equations.

[Cyrene St. Amant]

I forgot to add that after we all say the equation that matches the our composition of 10, Student A and B meet at the center of the pathway, give each other high fives and pass each other to get to the end of their respective lines. Then the next student in line at each end takes their position on the x’s and we repeat the procedure.

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