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My Book of Numbers: Count the Frogs!
Count the frogs! This template is all you need to help your counters create adorable number books. Each of the six pages features 1-5 frogs with the number written out. Learners must not only write the number in numerical form, but also...
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Rectangles and Shapes
A rectangles and shapes online learning exercise in which young learners determine what fraction is shaded in eight rectangles. They also answer three word problems and color the parts shown and requested on five shapes. They get...
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Count the Images!
Based on a selection of images, learners create a bar graph depicting how many of each image is shown. There are two graphs, each with three images to chart. After they are finished, scholars can analyze the data and draw conclusions. To...
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Shelf Stacker 1-5
What a fun way to practice counting for youngsters! Especially effective for kinesthetic and visual learners, this activity has scholars stacking "books" on a "bookshelf." Templates are provided for the bookshelves and books; consider...
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Fill in the Missing Numbers
What comes next? Drill your new counters as they fill in a blank space when given two consecutive numbers. Each page features four sets of numbers, and learners fill in the third of the series. Differentiate by having beginners fill in...
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Ten Sly Piranhas: Subtraction with Goldfish Crackers
Class members listen to the William Wise book Ten Sly Piranhas and act out the story with one child playing the piranha. They use goldfish crackers (eating them to show subtraction) to demonstrate and understand equations they see on...
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Sunflower Measuring and Counting
Youngsters improve their measuring and counting skills using sunflowers. They view pictures painted by Van Gogh. Everyone works in groups to measure sunflowers and record their findings, and they all use sunflower seeds to create...
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Counting in Kindergarten: Make Number Books
Emergent math masters practice 1:1 correspondence, number recognition, and quantity-to-number relationships. They view number flashcards, state the correct number name, and circle the corresponding numeral to represent the number of...
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Dusty Digits: 0 to 20
How many is this? Practice number value recognition between 0 and 20 using this interactive activity idea. It's all here for your easy use: cut and laminate the twenty-one individual cards, each labeled numerically 0-20. Also cut out the...
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My Ten-Frame Riddle
Learners will have fun trying to trick their classmates in this interactive ten-frame riddle activity. After choosing a number and filling in the frame, they create three clues to challenge a classmate trying to guess their number. A...
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Count the Objects
Are there more apples or pears? Learners count images of familiar objects, and write the number below. Then, they color the object group with the most in number. There are four sets of objects to compare. Consider having students circle...
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How Many?
Establish 1:1 correspondence by counting students, first one gender, then the other. Give each child a colored cube (one color for boys, another for girls) and have small groups determine more or less and how many all together. As a...
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We're Counting At The Zoo!
Budding mathematicians use sets of concrete materials to represent, count, and match quantities to 10 or more given in verbal or written form while participating in hands-on activities. This lesson uses the book 1, 2, 3 To The Zoo.
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Grouping Buttons
Looking for a good lesson on counting and sorting? This lesson is worth a look! In this classification lesson, learners sort buttons by color, shape, shiny verses not shiny, or number of holes.
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Investigation--Can You Build This?
Early learners explore shapes using colored blocks. They first get some hands-on time with the blocks and then look at beginning math concepts regarding spatial relationships. They work with a partner to build a 6-8 block tower with...
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Measuring our Hands!
How do we compare? Get your scholars measuring using this interactive and kinesthetic math activity. First, learners compare something (you announce- could be index finger, palm, feet, etc.) to classmates. Consider having them record...
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Rhythm, Math, Rhythm
Learners play instruments in math class to learn the interconnectedness between math and music. In this math instructional activity, students subdivide a piece of music, clapping rhythms and charting rhythm patterns in the song. A guided...
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Yummy Apples!
Young learners listen to a read aloud of Gail Gibbons book, Apples and the story A Red House With No Windows and No Doors. They compare characteristics of a number of kinds of apples, graph them and create a apple print picture. Learners...
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Mouse Count
How many ways can you arrange ten mice? After listening to the story, Mouse Count by Ellen Stone Walsh, it's the young scholars' turn to figure out how their mice can be organized, with some inside a jar and some out. Using visual and...
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Fill the Frames
This simple and fun game collaborates young mathematicians as they practice counting. Using a double ten frame each, partners alternate rolling a die and filling in spaces with as many counters as was rolled. They continue until both...
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Number Jigsaw
This is a fun way to interact with numbers, and it hardly takes any preparation! Give youngsters pieces of ten cards, each of which has a number from 1-10. The cards are provided, and it's recommended to print on cardstock. Laminate if...
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Ten Frame Numeral Match
Ten frames make counting to ten visual and tangible for young mathematicians. In partners, learners take turns holding up a numeral card while a classmate puts markers on the ten frame chart to match the number. After checking the work,...
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Apple Math-Focus on Patterning
Young scholars construct patterns with apples. In this mathematical thinking and patterning lesson, students compare and contrast several types of apples. Young scholars complete patterns with a SmartBoard activity, and then draw apple...
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Critical Thinking Problems
Young mathematicians practice their reasoning as well as adding and subtracting skills with this worksheet that includes five simple word problems about birthdays. Learners are give pictures of birthday cakes and based on the number of...