Card Number | Word | Ask | Answer |
1 | add | If I gave you 6 stickers and then I gave you 3 more, how many stickers would you have in all? | 9 |
2 | addend | Which two numbers are the addends: 8 + 2 = 10? | 8 and 2 |
3 | analog clock | What number is the hour hand pointing to when you wake up? What number is the minute hand on when you wake up? | Sample answer: The hour hand is on 7, and the minute hand is on 6. |
4 | bar graph | My class voted for their favorite sport. The choices were baseball, soccer, and volleyball. How many bars would I need to represent the data?
| 3 |
5 | calendar | What is your favorite day on the calendar? | Sample answer: Sunday |
6 | cent | Which is more money, 25 pennies or one quarter? | They are equal amounts. |
7 | circle | What can you see in the sky during the day that is shaped like a circle? | I can see the sun. |
8 | cone | Can you name something that is not the shape of a cone? | Sample answer: a baseball |
9 | corner | Do you see a corner in our classroom? | Sample answer: There is a corner on my book. |
10 | cube | Can you find a block in the block center that is the shape of a cube? | Check students’ answers. |
11 | cylinder | Can you name some cans of foods that are shaped like a cylinder? | Sample answers: soup, beans, carrots |
12 | data | What data would you like to collect to learn more about first graders in your class? | Sample answer: How many students like to play basketball? |
13 | difference | Find the difference: 7 – 2 = ? | 5 |
14 | digital clock | When it is 8 o’clock, what three numbers will you see on a digital clock? | 8, 0, 0 |
15 | dime | If you have 40¢ in dimes, how many dimes do you have? | 4 |
16 | equal sign (=) | Write an addition problem with an equal sign. Ask your friend to solve the problem. Check the answer. | Sample answer: 6 + 2 = 8 |
17 | estimate | How many crayons do you estimate that you can hold in one hand? | Sample answer: 8 |
18 | fact family | If 7 and 15 are members of the fact family, what number is missing? | 8 |
19 | graph | How is a picture graph different from a bar graph? | Sample answer: A picture graph uses pictures to show data and a bar graph uses bars of different lengths to show data. |
20 | half hour | What number is the minute hand on when it is a half hour past 4:00? | 6 |
21 | hour | If it is 2:30 now, what time will it be in 4 hours? | 6:30 |
22 | hour hand
| What number is the hour hand on when it is time for lunch/recess/gym class? | Sample answers: 12, 1, 2 |
23 | is greater than (>) | Name someone whose age is greater than yours. | Sample answer: my dad |
24 | is less than (<) | Name someone whose age is less than yours. | Sample answer: my baby brother |
25 | minus sign (-) | Write a subtraction problem with a minus sign. Trade it with a friend. Check your answers. | Sample answer: 7 - 3 = 4 |
26 | minute | It takes 8 minutes to eat breakfast and 2 minutes to brush your teeth. How many minutes altogether? | 10 |
27 | minute hand | Which hand do you think moves faster, the minute hand or the hour hand? | minute hand |
28 | month | In what month is your birthday? | Sample answer: April |
29 | nickel | You have 30 cents in nickels. How many nickels do you have? | 6 |
30 | number line | What numbers could you see on a number line? | Sample answer: any number |
31 | o’clock | What time each day do you think students go home from school? | Sample answer: 3 o’clock |
32 | ones | You have 5 tens. How many ones do you need to make the number 58? | 8 |
33 | pattern | How could you show a pattern using clapping and stomping? | Sample answer: clap, clap, stomp, clap, clap, stomp, clap, clap, stomp |
34 | penny | If you have 11 cents in pennies, how many pennies do you have? | 11 |
35 | picture graph | What pictures would we need if we wanted to graph the toys that students play with? | Sample answer: A picture of each toy students like. |
36 | place value | What number is in the tens place of your school’s address? | See students’ answers. |
37 | plane shape | List all the plane figures you can find inside your desk. | Sample answers: paper, bookmark |
38 | plus sign (+) | Write a number sentence with a plus sign. | Sample answer: 6 + 4 = 10 |
39 | pyramid | How many sides does a pyramid have? | 8 |
40 | quarter | If I give you 75¢ in quarters, how many quarters will you have? | 3 |
41 | rectangle | What other objects are in the shape of a rectangle? | Sample answer: shoe box, suit case, pencil box |
42 | rectangular prism | Name a favorite food of yours that comes in a box shaped like a rectangular prism. | Sample answer: cereal |
43 | solid shape | Which is a solid figure: a brick wall or a drawing of a rectangle? | A brick. |
44 | sphere | Can you name 3 things that can roll like a sphere? | Sample answer: a baseball, a grape, an orange |
45 | square | How many objects in our room are shaped like a square? Name them. | Sample answers: 3; math book, poster, table top |
46 | subtract | If you had 8 crayons and shared (gave away) 6, how many crayons would you have left? | 2 |
47 | sum | If you add up your fingers and your toes, what is the sum? | 20 |
48 | tally chart | What could you use a tally chart to show? | Sample answer: the number of girls and boys in class. |
49 | triangle | How many friends would you need to make a triangle on the playground? | 2 |
50 | week | If school is out in 2 weeks, how many days would that be? | 14 days |