ClassX Video Lessons Youtube Channel Teaching Without Frills Ways to Make 5 Using Drawings – Kindergarten Math – “Making 5”
Today, we’re going to have fun learning how to make the number five using drawings! You can join in with some paper and a pencil, or just watch and enjoy.
Imagine we’re going to the beach for five days. Each day can be sunny or cloudy. Let’s see how many different ways we can have sunny and cloudy days!
What if all the days are sunny? We can draw five suns! That’s 5 sunny days and 0 cloudy days.
Maybe 4 days are sunny. We can draw 4 suns and 1 cloud. That’s 4 sunny days and 1 cloudy day.
What if 3 days are sunny? We can draw 3 suns and 2 clouds. That’s 3 sunny days and 2 cloudy days.
What if only 2 days are sunny? We can draw 2 suns and 3 clouds. That’s 2 sunny days and 3 cloudy days.
What if just 1 day is sunny? We can draw 1 sun and 4 clouds. That’s 1 sunny day and 4 cloudy days.
What if there are no sunny days? We can draw 5 clouds! That’s 0 sunny days and 5 cloudy days.
Now, let’s solve another fun problem with flowers! Imagine we planted five flowers. One flower is yellow, and the rest are blue. How many flowers are blue?
Let’s draw 5 circles for the flowers. Color one circle yellow for the yellow flower. The rest are blue, so we have 1 yellow flower and 4 blue flowers. That’s 5 flowers in all!
If you don’t have colors, you can use letters! Draw 5 circles. Write “Y” in one circle for the yellow flower and “B” in the others for the blue flowers. This still shows 1 yellow and 4 blue flowers, making 5 flowers in total.
There are so many fun ways to make the number five! Keep exploring and drawing to learn more. Thanks for learning with us!
Sunny and Cloudy Day Chart: Create a chart with your child to track the weather for five days. Each day, draw a sun if it’s sunny or a cloud if it’s cloudy. At the end of the five days, count how many sunny and cloudy days you had. Discuss how this is similar to the different combinations of sunny and cloudy days you learned about.
Flower Garden Craft: Use colored paper or crayons to make a flower garden. Cut out or draw five flowers. Color one flower yellow and the rest blue. Arrange them in different patterns and count how many yellow and blue flowers you have each time. Ask your child to explain how they know there are always five flowers in total.
Story Time with Numbers: Create a short story with your child about a week at the beach. Each day, decide if it was sunny or cloudy and draw a picture for each day. At the end of the story, count how many sunny and cloudy days there were. Ask your child if they can think of another story where they can use drawings to show combinations that make five.
**Ways to Make Five Using Drawings**
by Teaching Without Frills
In this video series, we’re going to learn different ways to make the number five. One way to show ways to make five is by drawing pictures. If you want to follow along, you’ll need paper and something to write with, or you can just watch.
Let’s get started! Here’s my problem: I am going on a trip to the beach for five days. Each day will be sunny or cloudy. Let’s show different combinations of sunny and cloudy days that I might have on my trip.
So, all of the days could be sunny, right? I’ll draw five suns. That’s 5 sunny days and 0 cloudy days. Or, 4 of the days could be sunny. I’ll draw 4 suns and 1 cloud. That’s 4 sunny days and 1 cloudy day.
Maybe 3 of the days will be sunny. I could have 3 sunny days and 2 cloudy days. What if only 2 of the days are sunny? How many days would be cloudy? Right! Three. So that’s 2 sunny days and 3 cloudy days.
What if I only have 1 sunny day on my trip? The rest of the days would be cloudy. That would be 1 sunny day and 4 cloudy days. That’s 5 days in all. Oh no! What if I have zero sunny days? Then I would have 5 cloudy days. 0 and 5 is 5.
Now here’s one more problem about making 5 that we can solve by drawing pictures. I planted five flowers in my garden. 1 of the flowers is yellow and the rest are blue. How many flowers are blue? You can pause here to solve the problem on your own or keep watching.
The problem states that there are five flowers in all, so I’m going to start by drawing five circles. It also says that one of the flowers is yellow, so I’ll draw and color one yellow flower. The rest of the flowers are blue: 1, 2, 3, 4. So, 1 yellow flower and 4 blue flowers is 5 flowers in all. Therefore, the answer is 4.
But what if you were trying to solve this problem with just a pencil and didn’t have anything to color with? That’s okay! This time I’ll just draw my flowers with a pencil. Instead of coloring one flower yellow, I’ll just write a “Y” because yellow starts with Y. The rest of the flowers are blue, so instead of coloring with blue, I’ll write a “B” for blue.
And guess what? You might not even draw flowers at all! Sometimes when we solve math problems by drawing pictures, we don’t draw a picture of the exact object. Sometimes we use symbols to represent the objects from the story problem. For example, I could just draw five circles to represent the five flowers from the problem, and again I would use “Y” to represent the yellow flower and “B” to represent the blue flowers. This picture still shows that 1 yellow and 4 blue is 5 flowers in all.
Check out the other videos in this series to learn more strategies for making the number five. And if you’re a teacher, you can find more from Teaching Without Frills on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and TPT. Thanks for watching!
