In this lesson, students will have fun creating addition sentences by drawing and counting ladybug dots.

This lesson helps students develop an ability to compare and contrast as they explore two strategies to solve three-digit addition problems. This EL Math lesson can be used alone or alongside Three-Digit Addition Strategies Review.

Use this lesson to introduce composing and decomposing as part of your students’ addition and subtraction toolkits.

Your students will turn boring number sentences into fun, Christmas-themed word problems! They will get practice with math and writing as they use their creative juices to write and solve single digit addition word problems.