Number Sentences for Tile Designs

Use the display of the Make Your Own Tile Design page in the Student Activity Book to demonstrate how to make a tile design, color the squares to match the design, and write a number sentence describing the colors, rows, columns, or diagonals.

Have students create their own designs with square inch tiles on the Make Your Own Tile Design pages. After creating their designs, ask students to color in the squares beneath the tiles to permanently record it. On the next page, they write a number sentence to describe their design and show how the number sentence fits the design by circling the appropriate word. Then have students exchange designs with a partner and write a different number sentence for their partner's design and explain how their number sentence fits the design. For each tile design, they combine the two number sentences to make a true statement, with two or more addends on each side of the equal sign. They work together and use strategies and tools to show how the new number sentence is a true statement.

Assign the Tile Designs and Number Sentences pages in the Student Activity Book to assess students’ abilities to write number sentences and determine if number sentences are true or false. Have colored square-inch tiles, connecting cubes, number lines, and ten frames readily available.