Hot TEA on a Roller Coaster Ride!!!

 HHHEEEEYYYY y’all the weather is changing, and you know it's time for some warm Tea! I’ve never had warm tea before but I'm ready to try it with you guys while we spill this new “Tea”. So, remember I told you that I had something new coming? Well guess what! I’m so excited to spill the tea today. I can't wait for this tea to get ready. So, as you come in be sure to grab all of your essentials, and this week, I decided to bring some warm muffins. We have blueberry, banana nut, and of course the original flavor. Be sure to get comfortable because this will be a roller coaster ride of tea. Before we start, ask yourself, “Would Cluster Problems be a great idea to do for NT?” If you said yes, welcome to the roller coaster. And if you said no, hopefully by the end of this tea session you will be ready to take a ride on this roller coaster with us. As always students start with their “fist” to their heart because they are ready to start. Now this week we are not doing dot images; we will be doing Cluster Problems. So think of a way you can solve 15 + 15? While you take a minute to think about it, I'm going to post some of our Pre-Service teachers' responses.

                                                                 

• Student one: I decomposed 15 and 15 to 10+10 + 5+5= 30

• Student two: 15 x 2= 30 

• Student three: 15 + 15= 30

So, now that I have listed their ideas, did you come up with any of these ideas? If not, leave your answer in the comment section below. I told you I had some good tea coming, go ahead and take you another sip of that good ole tea. Round two for the roller coaster ride. Hopefully the people who don’t think this is a good idea for NT would join this ride now. As always, we put our “fist” to our hearts because we are ready to start, this time around think about how you would solve 15 + 16? As always, I’m going to post Pre- Service teachers' ideas below.

• Student one: Decomposed 16 to 15 which is now 15 + 15 + 1=31.

• Student two: Decomposed 15 to 10 + 5 and decomposed 16 to 10 + 6 which she added 10 + 10 then 5+ 6 to get 31.

Did you use any of these ways to get 31? If yes, great! If not, leave me a comment below. I'm always open to suggestions on finding multiple ways to get 31. Round three of the Roller will take off in a few seconds. Take a minute to adjust yourself and get comfortable. Hopefully, we have more people joining this time around. This tea is really good. Take a moment to take a sip or refill your cup if needed because this tea is delicious! Round three takes a minute and figure out how you would solve 14 + 14? I hope you haven't been using a calculator this whole entire time because if so, I’m going to get you lol! We are using our mental capability to solve these problems.  Below are our Pre-Service Teachers responses. Be sure to comment your answer below in the comments.  

                                                                                         

• Student one: 14 x 2= 28

• Student two: Decomposed 14 to 10 + 4 two times and added 10 + 10+ 4 +4 to give you 28

Lastly, now that we have done three rounds of the roller coaster, I hope we have changed everybody's mindset who didn’t think this was a great idea. As we get ready to take our final ride before you drink the last of your tea save it until we stop. This time we have our very own Pre-Service Teacher, Ms. Angel Scott, who led the last session. She's a junior here at Alabama A&M University. I’m pretty sure you weren't looking for this to come at you! This is her very first time teaching NT. She did a very outstanding job. She led the class with our “fist” to our heart because we are ready to start. She gave the problem 14 + 15, now take a minute because we have some defending going on during this session. Decide whether you're defending 29 this time or 27. Leave me an answer in the comments below. I'm counting on you to comment. If you picked 29, then you're correct. Below are Pre- Service teachers' answers but be sure to leave a comment on how you would solve this problem.

                                                                                               

• Student one:  10 + 10 + 4 + 5= 29

• Student two: 14 x 2= 28 + 1=29

Did you come up with some of the ways? If not, leave your comment below. 

Now this Number Talks deals with Doubles and Doubles plus One. That is, we add the same number twice and then add one to that number. When thinking about adding two numbers, think about how one number can be added twice (double) and then add 1 to the sum. Like 25 + 26. Just add 25 + 25 to get 50 and then add 1. The total will be 51. This is a great strategy to make adding numbers more friendly and efficient. 

 I hope we have everyone on board with us now to join the roller coaster because we have more coming at you next week. Please be sure to tune in because you don’t want to miss out on this good tea. Also, please leave us a comment below because we are counting on you, and have a great rest of the week.