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:  ...

Talking Math With Your Kids #TMWYK

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Okay, I’m stealing my title for this post from one of my favorite blogs out there; Talking Math With Your Kids.  My kids get A LOT of math talk in our household, more than they get read to.  In most households it is the other way around; more time is spent...

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...

Easter Egg Math Activities

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I am a firm believer in doing math activities that make kids feel like they aren’t doing math at all.  So, seeing all the cute ways teachers are using easter eggs to help kids with literacy and math got me inspired to create some math eggs of my own for my...

Christmas Math Centers

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As I stated in my December Read Aloud post, I get to spend time in my son’s kindergarten classroom doing math centers.  Here is what we did in the Christmas Math Centers: Memory using Snowmen Subitizing Cards.  I used this set of subitizing cards and set it up...