Savvy Subitizing Activity

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What is the Proper Way to Show Numbers in a Ten Frame?

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Ten Frames are amazing!  But after I presented today at my State’s Math Academy, I was thinking more about how you fill a ten frame and what reasoning each builds for kids.  For instance here are four different ways to show the amount 7 using ten frames:  ...

Card Games to Develop Number Sense

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I think almost everyone who teaches early elementary has heard about Make 10 Go Fish to help develop number sense around the benchmark number of 10.  But have you heard of Make Teen Go Fish?  Towards the end of the school year I got to attend a 2 day workshop by...

Building Number Sense and Fraction Sense While #TMWYK

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So this week, two situations arose involving my son’s food and math.  One built on some big ideas around Number Sense and the other built on his early Fraction Sense, but both gave me an opportunity to be Talking Math With Your Kids #TMWYK.   Scene #1:...

What the Heck is a Rekenrek??

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I am preparing for my presentation at the annual US Math Recovery conference and thought it would be a great time to post about one of my favorite math manipulatives for PreK through 2nd grade; the Rekenrek…which just so happens to be the focus of my...