Wednesday, June 4, 2025

FREE MATH LESSON - “Find the Unknown in Addition & Subtraction Picture Math Puzzle #1 (1st Grade)”

by The STEM Shop - NGSS Science STEM Resources
1st Grade


Originally included in our Compare & Contrast Parents & Their Offspring- 1st Grade NGSS Life Science Bundle, this mystery math puzzle is perfect as a stand-alone math activity or center for your first graders!

Students will add and subtract within 20 and Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction to complete these puzzles!

Laminate them to use as centers over and over again!

What's Included in this resource

  • Picture Puzzle #1 (Penguins) with assembly instructions
  • BONUS: 1st Grade NGSS Life Science Word Wall Vocab Cards w/ Picture Support

Address CCSS Math Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.B.3

Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.2Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.)

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.B.4

Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 - 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.6

Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.D.8

Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = _ - 3, 6 + 6 = _.

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