First Grade Lesson Guides with Games

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$5

Blind Tic Tac Toe quietly builds algebraic thinkers.

Students build true number relationships, reason about hidden values, and justify their thinking to strategically mark the board.

The game adapts to your learners by developing foundational number relationships (Grades 1–2) and multi-step reasoning (Grades 3–4). Before students ever see formal variables, they:

  • Reason about unknown quantities

  • Treat the equal sign correctly

  • Justify their thinking

  • Adjust strategies based on mistakes

Because difficulty is self-selected, students naturally increase complexity as they grow more confident.

$5

Ice Breaker Subtraction builds powerful decomposers.

Through modeling and strategic play, students experience how wholes change when parts disappear. They build flexible number relationships while strengthening conceptual subtraction.

Students don’t just “take away.” They:

  • See what disappears

  • Model what remains

  • Discuss strategies

  • Adjust thinking through reflection

Because manipulatives come first, abstraction feels natural, not forced. Subtraction becomes something students understand, not something they memorize.