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Fact Families
By Traci

My first graders just learned the concept of fact families using stuffed animals. To introduce the concept I taped nametags on 3 different animals. On each animal's nametag I wrote a number. ex.(8,4,12)We then moved
the animals around the plus, minus and equal sign to create 4 different equations.
The kids were then given 3 blank cutouts of kids with a different number on each one. Given story-paper (blank at the top with lines on the bottom) the kids glued the cut-outs to the top of the paper and wrote sentences below as follows:
Hi my name is 8.
Hi my name is 4 and my name is

12.
We are a fact family.
We can do 4 things together.
8+4=12, 4+8=12, 12-4=8, 12-8=4.