Want to seem like an excellent math teacher? Play the substitution game. It is worth 1000 worksheets. It's never boring and it's different every time.
Want to help your kids better understand fractions and fraction operations? Visualize with fractions area models and explore lots of important concepts.
Students make sense of multiplying decimals when they explore with manipulatives and draw or look at pictorial representations.
KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 1 I am thrilled to be sharing this huge Counting and Cardinality Unit with you! This is the math unit we start the year with in kindergarten. The kids love all of the hands-on activities we get to do, and I love how easy it is to keep them engaged.
Make a Kindergarten DIY number line with painter's tape and shoes! This hands-on math activity improves counting and quantity.
This apple tree number matching activity is a fun way for young children to practice number recognition and subitizing this fall!
These pumpkin counting mats are a super cute, hands-on way for preschoolers and kindergarten students to learn to count and develop number sense this fall.
(This post contains affiliate links) This was a pretty simple activity to set up and play. First I took our dot marker set, which includes 6 colors, and dotted each side of a 1 inch wood block with each color. Then C and I took turns rolling a number die and the color die. If we rolled a "3" and a "teal" then we would put 3 teal dots on a piece of paper. We weren't making any special pictures, we were just going to play until the paper was filled up (or until C was done with the game) But you could play with any dot marker printable out there, or make a picture as you go. We ended up filling up almost the entire paper.
Hands-on activities are so important for early learners because this is how they make sense of their learning! Here are 11 pizza themed math activities!
Tweet This week I was working with a small group of first and second graders who are having a hard time with this grade 1 Common Core Standard around equality. CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.D.7 Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. For example, which of the following equations are true and which are false? 6 = 6, 7 = 8 – 1, 5 + 2 = 2 + 5, 4 + 1 = 5 + 2. They are also having a difficult time with addition and subtraction facts so that is what I decided to tackle first. We were working on fluency of addition facts using a dice game and our 10 bead sticks when the opportunity to work on this idea about equality presented itself. A pair of students had just rolled a 9 and an 8 and were talking with each other about how they found their answer using the 10 bead sticks to help explain their thinking. The student whose sticks are in the top of this picture said, "I put 9 on one stick and 8 on the other but then I took one from the 8 stick and gave it to the 9 stick and made it 10 and 7." I asked this student if he thought 10 and 7 was the same as 8 and 9 and he said yes. His partner then said that she showed 9 on one stick and 8 on the other and said he saw 8+8+1. I asked him if he thought that was the same as 9+8 and he said yes. Here is where I stopped the whole group and had these two students share what they had noticed. I recorded their ideas as equations on the board. We talked about one equation at a time and kids shared ideas about whether or not they thought the equation was true and how they could prove it. There were some kids who were not convinced that these equations were true, so I pulled out my math balance and the kids who thought the equations were true used it to convince the other kids that they were right. The left side is showing 9 + 8 and the right side is showing 8 + 8 +1 the bar is parallel to the table which means the equations are equal After discussing the equations 9 + 8 = 8 + 8 + 1 and 9 + 8 = 10 + 7 a student pointed out that we could write 17 = 9 + 8 so we added that to our list of true equations. The students got back to playing their game and several times I had groups notice something similar about equivalent expressions and add their equations to the board. Next time I take this group, we will continue talking about the ideas of equality as well as addition and subtraction facts with my Frog and Flower Equality game. How do you make sure your students understand equality? I chose the math literature book Equal Shmequal to follow up this lesson. Click here to read more about it! You might also be interested in Another lesson on equality Penguin themed equality freebie Frog and flower equality
Concrete-Representational-Abstract Instructional Approach What is the Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) Instructional Approach? The CRA Instructional Approach is “an intervention for mathe…
Looking for a free gumball math activity? Print these fun counting mats!
Building a strong number sense is the foundation of most math applications. It's important for our students to know what numbers repres...
Use these hands-on, easy to prep One More One Less Number Sense Activities to help strengthen these important math concepts in preschool and kindergarten.
This free snowman 20 frames math game for Kindergarten is a great winter math center for building up number sense with teen numbers!
This Christmas tree counting math activity is a hands-on way to develop number sense this holiday season. The clothespins also add fine motor practice.
Do your kids have a strong fraction sense? This fun, yet challenging comparing fractions game will deepen their understanding & critical thinking skills.
Match the sense to the picture in this five senses worksheet! Download to complete online or as a printable!
Dinosaur themed math activities for preschoolers. Help with counting, comparing numbers, number sense & more with this engaging, free printable activity.
The Apple Taste Test is a wonderful way to incorporate the sense of taste into your lesson. It also sneaks in vocabulary, math, and science.
Explore the wonders of the ocean with these math and literacy activities that provide hands-on learning through play for our preschoolers!
Geometry is not one of those really beloved math topics (are there any?), but this product aims to help your students see the beauty (in the sense of its logical organization) and utility of geometry. Your students will discover the truth of the saying 'Great minds think alike' when they see that mathematicians in other ancient civilizations also came to the same realizations as the Greeks' Pythagoras, who, nevertheless, gets the credit for his theorem. Everyday examples of the need to understand and use the basic principles of geometry are presented, including in the three assignment options given. Also provided, for you, is a 2-page PDF called 'Geometric Constructions: What, Why and Bits of History'. This product was made specifically for the BC History of Mathematics 11 course; for all non-BC teachers (including everywhere else in the world!) there's a second title slide.
Help students understand numbers better with these number sense ideas for Kindergarten. Students will learn how to represent numbers in many ways.
