Carrie Burns

Subject: Chapter 6 (3-Digit Addition and Subtraction)

Grade Level: Second Grade
Number of Students: 18
Time: 3 Weeks
Rationale: Three-digit addition and subtraction draws children away from inefficient methods that they
may use to solve one or two-digit addition and subtraction problems (i.e. drawing a picture or using tally
marks) and leads them towards using the standard algorithm.
Domain: CC.2.NBT Number and Operations in Base Ten
Standard: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract

CC.2.NBT.7 Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based
on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction;
relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit
numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and
sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.

Mathematical Practices:

CC.K-12.MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically

CC.k-12.MP.8 Look for and express regularly in repeated reasoning

Misconceptions: Children may not see the need to regroup in subtraction. Instead of regrouping, children
often find the difference between the two numbers, regardless of their position in the problem. Children
should be discouraged from saying, You cannot subtract a big number from a small number. This may
cause confusion later when they encounter integers.

Week 1
Lesson

Objective

Goal

Chapter 6
Pretest

Assess prior
knowledge and
build
vocabulary that
is necessary for
the unit
Draw quick
pictures to
represent 3digit addition

Students will
complete the
chapter 6
pretest.

Lesson 1: Draw
to Represent 3Digit Addition

Lesson 2:
Break Apart 3Digit Addends

Apply place
value concepts
when using a
break apart
strategy for 3digit addition

Lesson 3: 3Digit Addition:

Regroup Ones

Record 3-digit
addition using
the standard
algorithm with
possible

Students will
use quick
pictures to help
them solve 3digit addition.
Students will
review place
value concepts.
Students will
also review the
break apart
strategy and
use it for 3-digit
addition.
Students will
decide when it
is necessary to
regroup ones
when solving 3-

Essential
Question

How do you
draw quick
pictures to show
adding 3-digit
numbers?
How do you
break apart
addends to add
hundreds, tens,
and then ones?

When do you
regroup ones in
addition?

Materials

Assessment

Mathboard, Go
Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,
various math
games
Mathboard,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards
MathBoard,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,
various math
games

Completed
Chapter 6
Pretest

MathBoard,
base-ten
blocks,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,

Completed Go
Math Lesson 3
pages and
Standards
Practice pages

Completed Go
Math Lesson 1
pages

Completed Go
Math Lesson 2
pages and
Standards
Practice pages
from lesson
6.1

regrouping of
ones

digit addition.

Record 3-digit
addition using
the standard
algorithm with
possible
regrouping of
tens

Students will
decide when it
is necessary to
regroup tens
when solving 3digit addition.

When do you
regroup tens in
addition?

Lesson

Objective

Goal

Essential
Question

Make-Up Day /
Math Game
Review

Complete
missing
assignments
from unit 6 and
do any
necessary reteaching

Lesson 5:
Addition:
Regroup Ones
and Tens

Record 3-digit
addition using
the standard
algorithm with
possible

Students will
complete work
that has not
been finished.
Students will
also review unit
concepts
through math
games.
Students will
decide when it
is necessary to
regroup both
ones and tens in

Lesson 4: 3Digit Addition:

Regroup Tens

pencils,
clipboards,
math games
MathBoard,
base-ten
blocks,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,
math games

from lesson
6.2

Materials

Assessment

Missing
assignment
pages, pencils,
clipboards,
various math
games

Completed
missing
assignments,
focused and
quiet work
during math
review games

MathBoard,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,

Completed Go
Math Lesson 5
pages and
Standards
Practice pages

Completed Go
Math Lesson 4
pages and
Standards
Practice pages
from lesson
6.3

Week 2

How do you
know when to
regroup in
addition?

regrouping of
both ones and
tens
Solve problems
involving 3-digit
subtraction by
using the
strategy make
a model

a single problem
when solving 3digit addition.
Students will
utilize a new
strategy when
solving 3-digit
subtraction.

Lesson 7: 3Digit
Subtraction:
Regroup Tens

Record 3-digit
subtraction
using the
standard
algorithm with
possible
regrouping of
tens

Students will
decide when it
is necessary to
regroup the tens
when solving 3digit subtraction
problems.

When do you
regroup tens in
subtraction?

Lesson 8: 3Digit
Subtraction:
Regroup
Hundreds

Record 3-digit
subtraction
using the
standard
algorithm with
possible
regrouping of
hundreds

Students will
decide when it
is necessary to
regroup the
hundreds when
solving 3-digit
subtraction
problems.

When do you
regroup
hundreds in
subtraction?

Lesson 6:
Problem
Solving: 3-Digit
Subtraction

How can making

a model help
when solving
subtraction
problems?

various math
games

from lesson
6.4

MathBoard,
base-ten
blocks,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,
various math
games
MathBoard,
base-ten
blocks,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,
various math
games
MathBoard,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,
various math
games

Completed Go
Math Lesson 6
pages and
Standards
Practice pages
from lesson
6.5

Completed Go
Math Lesson 7
pages and
Standards
Practice pages
from lesson
6.6

Completed Go
Math Lesson 8
pages and
Standards
Practice pages
from lesson
6.7

Week 3
Lesson

Objective

Goal

Make-Up Day /
Math Game
Review

Complete
missing
assignments
from unit 6 and
do any
necessary reteaching

Lesson 9:
Subtraction:
Regroup
Hundreds and
Tens

Record 3-digit
subtraction
using the
standard
algorithm with
possible
regrouping of
both hundreds
and tens
Record
subtraction
using the
standard
algorithm when
there are zeros

Students will
complete work
that has not
been finished.
Students will
also review unit
concepts
through math
games.
Students will
decide when it
is necessary to
regroup in the
tens and
hundreds place
when solving 3digit
subtraction.
Students will
practice many
different types
of 3-digit
subtraction
problems.

Lesson 10:
Regrouping
with Zeros

Essential
Question

Materials

Assessment

Missing
assignment
pages, pencils,
clipboards,
various math
games

Completed
missing
assignments,
focused and
quiet work
during math
review games

How do you
know when to
regroup in
subtraction?

MathBoard,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,
various math
games

Completed Go
Math Lesson 9
pages and
Standards
Practice pages
from lesson
6.8

How do you
regroup when
there are zeros
in the number
you start with?

MathBoard,
Counting Tape,
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,
various math

Completed Go
Math Lesson
10 pages and
Standards
Practice pages
from lesson

Chapter 6
Review

Chapter 6 Test

in the minuend
Review past
lessons and
work in small
groups to
reteach difficult
lessons

Show learning
and growth
through the
Chapter 6 Go
Math test

Students will
review 3-digit
addition and
subtraction to
prepare for the
chapter test.

Students will
complete the
chapter test.

games
Go Math pages,
pencils,
clipboards,
math
manipulatives,
various math
games
Go Math
chapter 6 test,
pencils,
clipboards,
various math
games

6.9
Completed
Standards
Practice pages
from lesson
6.10,
Completed
chapter 6
review sheet
Completed
chapter 6 test
graded

Accommodations: Small-group instruction, re-teaching, and additional support will be available for
children who are struggling every lesson/day. For children who are moving ahead of others, there are
additional enrichment worksheets for these students to do and these students may also do review math
games or work with math manipulatives when finished with their work.
Possible Challenges: Possible challenges that may arise with this unit would include students not
knowing how to regroup twice, in the case of 104 27. Students may have trouble going all the way to the
hundreds place to regroup for the ones.