East Detroit Public Schools
Lesson Design

Author: Kimberly Ayrault
Subject: Math
Grade Level: Second grade
Course: Math
Title: Odd and Even Numbers

Length of Unit: Approximately two weeks

Materials Needed:
Power Macintosh G3 computers
math textbooks (Harcourt Brace, 1992)
paper and pencils
cube manipulatives

software programs:
Zoo Zillions
Carnival Countdown

Standards-Based Outcomes (MDE):

Math:

IV. Number Sense and Numeration

Content Standard IV, 2: Students recognize that numbers are used in different ways such as counting, measuring, ordering, and estimation, understand and produce multiple representations of a number, and translate among equivalent representations. (Representation and Uses of Numbers)

3. Investigate ways numbers are used (e.g., counting, ordering, naming, locating, and measuring).

Content Standard IV, 3: Students investigate relationships such as equality, inequality, inverses, factors, and multiples, and represent and compare very large and very small numbers. (Number Relationships)

3. Classify numbers as odd or even and explore concepts of factors and multiples.

Prior Knowledge:

• The students are familiar with the concept of odd and even numbers as a result of instruction from their math textbooks.
• The students are familiar with cube manipulatives.
• The students have basic knowledge of the computer keyboard.

Cue Set:

• The teacher begins a discussion by asking the children to brainstorm all the even and odd numbers which they know. As they work in pairs or small groups, they must write all the odd numbers on one sheet of paper and all the even numbers on another sheet.
• Then the children use cube manipulatives to make pairs and sets of even and odd numbers.

Best Shot Instruction:

• The children move to the computer lab where the teacher models the use of the program Zoo Zillions.
• The children begin working independently or in pairs with even and odd numbers, using one and two-digit problems. As the children master a program level, they progress through each successive one until they complete the entire program. They begin at level “I”, which is appropriate for second grade, and master increasingly difficult levels until they end with level “Z”.

Reteaching and Enrichment:

If the children know the program Carnival Countdown from kindergarten and first grade, they can use it as a good review before the test. (The concept of odd and even numbers is in several chapters of their math books, and needs to be constantly reinforced.)

Review and Closure:

The students have a contest to see which group can correctly identify and write the most odd and even numbers.

Assessment:

• The student's progress is measured by the final level which he/she masters in the program Zoo Zillions.
• This skill is also assessed with the chapter tests in the Harcourt Brace math textbooks.

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