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The school I taught my unit in is located in the city of North Hornell. North Hornell Elementary school holds grades Pre Kindergarten to first grade. North Hornell Elementary serves many low income students, every student in the school receives free breakfast and lunch.The job market is scarce in Hornell.The majority of my students parents work at the local Hospital Saint James Mercy and Alstrom or in the service profession.In my first grade classroom there are 22 students ranging in age from six to seven. Nine students in my classroom receive special education services,three students get speech therapy, and one student receives occupational therapy. North Hornell Elementary has adopted the New York State Common Core Curriculum and follows it thoroughly in instruction and assessments.

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In my class of twenty two student nine students get pulled out for special education services in mathematics. Student engagement in math varies, but student have had previous knowledge on my unit topic of addition of tens and ones using
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For my unit I taught Module 4 Place Value, Comparison, Addition and Subtraction to 40. Specifically targeting common core standard CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.C.4

Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.

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