Owl Helper: Use Math to Balance the Trees and Save the Owls

Teachers and Parents: (Target player age: 1st grade)
Missing number addition problems are amazing for students beginning their math journey. This game will allow your student or child to practice the following concepts:

Number sense: The numbers are represented in four different ways, text, number, ten-frame, and in the form of owls. 

Equation Sense: Students will see that that the equal sign only remains if both sides of the equation are balanced. 

Challenging but enjoyable: Missing number addition is considered the hardest of four types of addition problems. In my experience as a teacher, the students also liked it the best because it felt like a puzzle.  I did an activity similar to this in the classroom and students loved it.

A precursor to subtraction, algebraic thinking, and word problems.