Math Activeness Thursday: Manipulatives

Time for MaTh action Thursday.  Today I'm doing manipulatives, only y'all tin link upwards amongst whatever math postal service y'all cause got done late or i y'all made specifically for Th : )

I was totally inspired the other twenty-four hours yesteryear Math Coach's Corner DIY Rekenreks.  I decided to brand some, only I didn't cause got the foam newspaper to brand that version.  I did, however, cause got doilies!  I idea that instead of the instructor making the Rekenreks the kids could decorate as well as brand their own.

They are super tardily to brand as well as y'all tin fifty-fifty brand them for unlike themes too...

I bet y'all could brand a bat i for Halloween, a decorated egg for spring, etc.

These math tools are actually neat!  It would hold upwards used to a greater extent than ofttimes than non inwards First degree as well as Kindergarten, only fifty-fifty kids a chip older tin purpose them if they don't cause got math concepts 1-20 mastered yet.  I know for myself, when I mean value amongst mental math I am ever thinking nearly how numbers are around a five or 10.

Also on Math Coach's Corner she shared nearly the non-profit grouping Math Coach's Corner or follow the link here.

Other than this type of manipulative, I honey to purpose everyday objects... food, pencils, balls, y'all cite it as well as it tin hold upwards used to speak nearly math.

What manipulatives create y'all savor pedagogy with?

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Sometimes the mere lift of the discussion "math" tin smasher fearfulness into the hearts of niggling learners. Math's challenges accept on a novel bird of significance inwards maiden of all grade, when kids are stimulate to gear upward novel skills on exceed of previous skills they direct keep learned. We know, based on our operate amongst teachers too students inwards this historic menses group, that edifice a rigid foundation inwards math skills is essential. But, it's too of import to brand math engaging. That's why nosotros acquire too thence serious most making math fun.

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Math Activeness Thursday: Temperature & Math

 So, kids know when it's hot together with when it's cold, simply produce they know virtually temperatures?

Time to endure out a thermometer together with read it.  The groovy matter virtually thermometers are they are a vertical pose out line!  Here is a link to a printable one.

When using thermometers it is proficient arithmetics practice.

My suggested action is a uncomplicated one.  Supplies: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 thermometer newspaper together with ruby-red together with bluish poker chips inward a chocolate-brown bag.

• Pick a starting temperature.
• Randomly choose a handful of poker chips.  Red are ascent (+) temperatures together with bluish are cooling (-) temperatures.
• After yous accept added together with subtracted, describe the novel temp (optional: yous could describe a scene that would become alongside that temperature).
• Repeat equally much equally yous desire ; )

What activities produce yous similar to produce alongside temperatures?  Feel gratis to link upwards whatsoever math post!

Now I am off to a working writers retreat for the weekend (I yet accept to pack).  I'm together with thence excited to run across a few editors together with agents for children's books.  And, equally always, hoping soul volition dear my math-related children's pic books I have.  Wish me luck!

1-100 Cards For House Value! Math Action Thursday: 1St Grade

Hey everyone!  For today's MaTh activeness Th nosotros are doing a 1st degree focus, as well as hence link upwards whatever 1st degree math posts you lot want.  I decided since I solely larn a duo links each time, I volition run the link for the whole calendar month : )

I chose to brand an activeness alongside 1.NBT.B.2 which is

• Understand that the 2 digits of a two-digit position out stand upwards for amounts of tens as well as ones. Understand the next equally exceptional cases:
• CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2a 10 tin survive idea of equally a packet of x ones — called a “ten.”
• CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2b The numbers from xi to nineteen are composed of a x as well as one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
• CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2c The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, ninety elevate to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).

I made a production that volition larn perfect for helping your students empathize this concept.  It goes hand-in-hand alongside my Trouble alongside Monkeys book, simply tin survive used past times itself equally well.  Last calendar week I gave the freebie, simply this is the whole pack of 1-100 cards alongside 4 versions.  You larn 48 pages of cards...

• 1-100 cards inwards B&W alongside numbers

• 1-100 cards inwards B&W without numbers

• 1-100 cards inwards color alongside numbers

• 1-100 cards inwards color without numbers

With these cards you lot tin create numerous games as well as activities!  It is tardily for kids to visualize alongside oranges instead of the normal manipulative of piddling blocks as well as sticks.

Here is a fun activeness you lot tin do--Make a hugger-mugger code.

Simply write a-z on your newspaper (leaving infinite for the code number)

Pick blank 1-100 cards as well as write the position out each fourth dimension you lot selection 1 up.

Make messages alongside your novel hugger-mugger code!

Thanks for visiting!  What math concepts are your kids working on?  Will you lot portion them alongside MaTh activeness Thursday?

T For Telling Time! (A To Z Challenge)

I've been super busy as well as I'm starting to instruct behind on the H5N1 to Z blogging challenge, but hopefully I tin grab up.

T is for telling time.  For simple schoolhouse a big focus on telling fourth dimension is existence able to read an analog clock (the clocks alongside hands).  Reading a digital clock is easy, but knowing all nearly fourth dimension is good.  I intend it's of import that kids utter nearly time, knowing that in that place are 24 hours inward a 24-hour interval which are typically broken into the 12 AM hours as well as the 12 PM hours.  You tin depict pictures of what you lot are doing at each hr of the day.  Children mightiness last surprised past times how many hours are taken upwardly past times sleep!

Regarding reading clocks...

it is a science kids take away to practice, but in i trial they sympathise the organisation is should last easier to do.  The brusk mitt reads the hr as well as if it isn't precisely on a number, the hr is the end position out it touched (when it is 7:50 simply about children intend the hr is 8).

Have fun didactics time!

Math For 1St Graders: Activities At The Beach!

It has been a busy summertime here!  But it's fourth dimension for 1st Grade MaTh (Math activeness Thursday)!

So, I get got been busy but I get got taken the kids to the beach a few times in addition to I couldn't attention to run across all the math teaching opportunities there!

Activity Name: Beach math activities--a whole bunch of niggling things to create to brand math business office of every kids life in addition to to attention them realize math is all only about them.

Concepts:  Almost whatever concept tin reach the axe endure taught at the beach, but for s graders I idea of counting, colors, shapes, time, length, in addition to height.  You could belike brand charts for all of the interesting beach information too, but non surely if y'all desire to select newspaper in addition to pencils to the beach : )

Supplies:  A beach setting (hopefully amongst sand), frisbee, blanket, ball, stopwatch, sand toys (and whatever else y'all unremarkably bring).

Time needed:  Actually y'all tin reach the axe verbalize nearly these activities in addition to create them for a few minutes or longer.  The signal is to brand math in addition to observations fun.

Various instructions:

• Lay downward your towel, how many tyke human foot lengths is the top?  How nearly the side?  What is the total perimeter inwards tyke human foot lengths?
• Have fun tossing a Frisbee...  Throw it in addition to allow it land.  How many equal steps did it nation away from you?  What is the farthest y'all tin reach the axe toss it?
• Observe all the colors only about you.  How many swim suits get got green?  How many get got pink?  Are in that place dissimilar colors inwards the grains of sand?
• Counting.  Tons of things to count 1 past times one, but endeavor counting past times twos (how many feet are inwards the water?)
• Shapes.  What shapes create y'all see?  Are their circles? Rectangles?  Any triangles?
• Time the waves crashing.  How long is it betwixt each wave?  Can y'all fourth dimension it betwixt 20 consecutive waves?  Is it ever the same fourth dimension betwixt waves?  Estimate how many waves crash inwards 1 hour.  How nearly inwards 1 whole day?
• With your sand toys how high tin reach the axe y'all railroad train upward the sand?  How long did it take?

There are countless things to create amongst math at the beach.  You tin reach the axe run across how many boys in addition to how many girls are there.  You tin reach the axe verbalize nearly temperature (of the air in addition to the water).  Height of waves.  Take a surely distance in addition to run across how long it takes to operate it.  Does it accept the same amount of fourth dimension if y'all were on grass or cement?

Hope everyone is having a smashing summer!  I know some classes are only nearly to start.  You tin reach the axe link upward your 1st degree math activities all month. Here is your re-create to create total out : )

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First Cast Math: Telling Fourth Dimension 1.Md.B.3

Hello!

Welcome to Math activeness Thursday!  Link upwards your math post service at the bottom.  I can't hold back to encounter your activities!

Today mine is on telling fourth dimension amongst the hr as well as one-half hr as well as a thumbs up, thumbs downward activity.

Activity name: Thumbs up, thumbs downward (perhaps in that location could live a improve title, but creative juices aren't flowing at the moment)

Concepts: 1.MD.B.3 Telling fourth dimension for at the hr as well as one-half hour, checking for accurate hr manus position.

Supplies: Little clock faces for each student.  I flora this slap-up 4-pack at Dollar Tree.  The picayune plastic hands are decently sturdy (not certain how long they volition final but certain improve than paper).

Time needed: 20-30 minutes for teaching, practicing, checking, as well as playing amongst the clocks.

Instructions:  Take 5-10 minutes teach. Talk virtually the the hr seat as well as if they withdraw to review which manus reads the infinitesimal as well as which manus reads the hour, produce hence now.  Explain, at the top of the hr nosotros are only starting a novel hr as well as the infinitesimal manus is at the top.

Digitally it looks similar 1:00.  Show other hours past times moving the hr manus but hence come upwards dorsum to this one.

Explain that each of the picayune dots inward dark is i infinitesimal passing as well as when the infinitesimal manus passes each of the numbers nosotros truly exercise skip counting (AKA multiplication) of 5.  But for now, nosotros are going to brand the infinitesimal manus larn to the bottom.  How many minutes is that?  We could count each of them or nosotros could skip count--it's 30!  Then why produce nosotros telephone telephone if one-half an hour?  Lets await at the clock equally a circle.  If nosotros shade all the minutes nosotros passed from 1:00-1:30 that is one-half the circle.  It is one-half of the whole hour.  (But hither is the business office nosotros don't ever teach) While the infinitesimal manus is going, does the hr manus remain inward the same place?  No, it advances slowly, getting closer as well as closer to the adjacent hour.  So when the infinitesimal manus is at the one-half hr position, lets encounter where the hr manus points.

It is one-half means betwixt the 1 as well as 2.  Yes, that is because it is one-half means through the whole hr of minutes.

If you lot saw a clock similar this

 or this

it only wouldn't seem precisely right.
Let's encounter if you lot tin approximate which i of these clocks accept the right manus position.  (put ii clocks side past times side as well as brand i right as well as i wrong as well as produce this a few times).
Now you lot are fix to try!  Practice as well as play.  Play could include reading a storey amongst times inward it as well as the children motility their clocks each fourth dimension it says the fourth dimension inward the story.

Have fun!

Now it's your fourth dimension to link upwards if you lot want.  Here is the 1st flat MaTh template.

We volition live doing 1st flat math for the remainder of this calendar month as well as hence inward September we'll live into sec flat math.

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1St Shape Math: Throwback Thursday Alongside Disclose Lines! Fun Frogs & Lillypads!

Bringing upward a past times post service that was actually cute together with fun for this commencement bird MaTh (Math activity Thursday)!

This past times MaTh was inwards the sometime format precisely if you lot desire to bring together me you lot tin fill upward out this template together with link upward at the bottom.

Enjoy this post service from concluding year...

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Recently on Google+ I was reading through my Community pages (I bring an Elementary School Teachers Community by the agency that anyone who wants to bring together tin endure business office of) together with at that topographic point was an article shared on 1 of the math teachers community most how of import disclose lines are.  Kids oft don't bring a expert feel of numbers together with their placement.

I thought I would throw out a few ideas to produce amongst disclose lines.  Number lines aid kids visualize which numbers are closest to zero, higher or lower than each other, together with the placement of where numbers check along the line.

Many times inwards schoolhouse nosotros are solely supposed to instruct the positive numbers, precisely I know my ain children ever wondered if at that topographic point were numbers going the other way.  We shouldn't endure hesitant to demonstrate them that indeed at that topographic point are negatives.  When nosotros instruct a subtraction occupation nosotros tin demonstrate them that at that topographic point is a negative inwards there.  5-2=3 is also 5+(-2)=3.

In college I had an amazing math instructor that taught us how to instruct higher bird math to immature children inwards uncomplicated ways.  He did a demonstration inwards a minute bird class amongst poker chips.  The cerise chips were hot chips together with the bluish chips were mutual depression temperature chips.  He used a thermometer drawing to demonstrate how the temperature would become upward or downwards according to the chips the kids were given.  The thermometer was basically a disclose line of piece of work inwards the vertical position.

At commencement the instructor gave the sec graders to a greater extent than hot chips.  For example: 1 pupil got nine hot together with roughly other pupil got ii cold.  What's the temperature?  The kids figured out it was 7.  But afterwards a few of those, he gave to a greater extent than mutual depression temperature chips: v hot chips together with 10 mutual depression temperature chips.  Guess what?  They figured out it was -5!  You should bring seen how the kids were together with hence excited to know they could become below zero!

So, that's 1 activity you lot could produce amongst your students.  I would beloved to ask heed if they learn every bit excited every bit the kids inwards that minute bird class.

For today, I made a minor freebie which is 1 page out of a bundle I am made.  I'm giving away the dark together with white re-create of the Lilly Pad Number Line!

The 12 page bundle is $3 if you lot desire the colored pages together with frogs to become amongst it : )

With the disclose lines, the kids fill upward inwards the numbers on the Lilly pads together with they tin produce roughly dissimilar things amongst them afterwards they are cutting into strips together with made into a long horizontal line.  Here are roughly ideas...

• With a minor edible bean pocketbook every bit a frog, run across what numbers they nation on together with croak along a record.  Have the children compare the numbers.  What was the highest number?  Which disclose was landed on the most?
• Have the students croak along rails of how many books they bring read amongst the disclose line.
• Use the Lilly Pad Number Line for the days of school.
• Use the line of piece of work to croak along rails of daily points inwards the classroom.  You could purpose the negative numbers hither too, precisely hopefully the kids are earning plenty points to remain out of the negatives : )

What other things produce you lot produce amongst disclose lines inwards the classroom?

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Guest Weblog Shipping Service Amongst Corinne Jacob: Dissimilar & Fun Ways To Brand Your Child Beloved Math

Hello Everyone,

Today I accept Corinne from Alternate Tutelage sharing her ideas to brand math fun together with exciting for kids! 

Different & Fun Ways to Make your Child Love Math

Kids who cope amongst math oftentimes pass their entire academic lives thinking of math equally a horrible monster that volition never become away. Making such kids dear math tin live challenging, together with then I position together this listing of dissimilar fun ways to brand your pocket-sized autumn inwards dear math.

“N is for Negative” yesteryear Angelia Sims, licensed nether CC BY SA 2.0

Math Activities

Whether it’s a hot summer’s afternoon, a long hold off at the dentist’s or a seemingly endless route trip, whatever fourth dimension is a nifty fourth dimension to larn math. Encourage your pocket-sized to explore the fascinating mathematical concepts that are institute inwards nature – shapes, sizes together with symmetry of leaves; counting the numbers together with kinds of trees inwards your street; learning the dissimilar shapes together with patterns inwards flowers – together with and then on. 

Your footling mathematician volition happily larn math if it is presented to him inwards the shape of fun activities. Identify the variety of activities he or she enjoys together with integrate math into it. For instance, if your pocket-sized loves to laid upward or bake, permit him mensurate the ingredients, count items together with gauge the amount of fourth dimension required to laid upward specific things.

Math Games

There are diverse kinds of games that indirectly aid kids larn to a greater extent than or less aspect of math. They are effective because your pocket-sized is to a greater extent than opened upward to learning when he’s having fun together with wants to locomote on doing whatever he’s doing. Math games come upward inwards dissimilar forms – board games, online math games, card games, video games, puzzles, active playground games, etc. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 well-designed math game allows players of all science levels to participate together with learn. They tin instruct novel concepts or permit kids practise previously learned concepts. Math games are your best friend if yous desire to brand the plain of written report interesting together with aid your pocket-sized lose their inhibitions when they've engaged uncomplicated or advanced mathematical tasks. Talk close motivation!

Math-themed Books

Share books together with stories that accept mathematical themes only are too proficient entertainment. Big Fat Hen by K. Baker, for instance, features a hen that lays eggs whose numbers become upward 2 until they accomplish a full of ten. Mrs.McTats together with her Houseful of Cats yesteryear A. Capucilli talks close how Mrs. McTats adopts cats inwards multiples until she has 25 cats inwards her house. D. A. Carter’s How Many Bugs inwards a Box is all close measurements. Once your pocket-sized starts enjoying math-themed stories, he volition live able to encounter the underlying math inwards whatever book, inwards add-on to developing a dear for reading.

Did these ideas operate for you? I’d dear to remove heed close your experiences amongst kids together with math!

Author Bio:  Corinne Jacob is a wannabe author who is convinced that kids larn best when they’re having fun. She is constantly on the sentinel for novel together with exciting ways to brand learning an enjoyable experience. Corinne loves all things that hollo out un-schooling, option instruction together with holistic learning.

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Thanks for your insights!  I can't hold off until my books come upward out together with then they tin live on your Math-themed majority list!  The Pancake Menu volition live coming out July 2015

Math Activeness Thursday Amongst Clovers! Freebie & Video : )

Hi Everyone!

It's most St. Patrick's Day, together with thence I made a footling freebie for you! Just impress it on dark-green re-create newspaper together with write math problems (or other things) to challenge your students.

You tin print it from HERE!

I made this footling video together with thence you lot tin come across the decorations beingness made. Super uncomplicated together with fun!

Also, I'm a invitee on GoodReadsWithRonna.com too! In illustration you lot didn't come across my review of Danica McKellar's novel book--Goodnight Numbers--Here is the link to that post : )

Have a nifty weekend!

New Fun Video Today! Math Action Thursday Alongside Play Dough--10 Ways To Convey Play Doh Move A #Math Activity!

Hello,

I'm together with hence happy amongst how my video turned out! Are yous a Play Doh lover? I know... closed to parents despise it since it tin become all over, exactly it tin hold out such an awesome tactile tool to operate for math activities!

I also shared these ideas inward my utter for the Great American Homeschool Convention final year, exactly hither I am showing yous the 10 ways to brand Play Dough math oriented : )

What create yous think? Have yous always used Play Doh to heighten your math activities?

#Math Activeness Thursday Making A Rekenrek & Congrats To The Giveaway Winner!

Hello everyone!

It's Th together with that agency it's Math action Thursday! Today nosotros are making a Rekenrek, a non bad tool to assist learn your kids the numbers 0-20 together with assistance them every moment they add together together with subtract smaller numbers.


Have you lot always made a Rekenrek? Here is the link to a neat resources that helps you lot know how to learn release feel alongside it: https://bridges1.mathlearningcenter.org/media/Rekenrek_0308.pdf

Also, I wanted to congratulate Peggy Bohn! She is the winner of final weeks giveaway! Contact me Peggy together with thence I tin dismiss buy the farm the mass inwards the mail to you lot : )

I've heard from a few people close their thoughts close M.a.Th.s videos. I'd dearest to know what you lot think.

Have a non bad day!

#Math Activeness Thursday Alongside 3D Shapes! Addition Google's Accept Your Kids To Live Twenty-Four Hr Menses : )

Happy Thursday! Sorry to postal service this slow today...  Enjoy today's Math action Thursday!
I was super busy today because it was National Take Your Children to function twenty-four hr catamenia at the Google LA office. My married adult man is lucky to function there, as well as thence nosotros larn every year, precisely this twelvemonth was particular because I got to travel a presenter!

I wasn't allowed to larn whatever photos amongst kids inwards it precisely nosotros had a super fun fourth dimension working amongst The Pancake Menu as well as play money. So much that when nosotros got dwelling my piddling kids nonetheless wanted to play as well as brand pancakes amongst the leftover batter I had...

  And I decided to larn a piddling fleck creative as well as brand an interesting flower...

I'd dearest to listen what you lot mean value of the 3D cast video! Take help : )

New M.A.Th. Alongside Toy Cars & Sneak Peek At Problem Alongside Monkeys!

Hello!

I was then excited to encounter this brusque together with sweetness video completed. My boy together with I had a fun fourth dimension amongst our toy cars together with you lot tin likewise : )

What sort of hands-on math activities are you lot doing amongst your kids? Have you lot e'er used toy cars inwards your classroom?

Also, I'm super excited to give you lot a sneak peek into my upcoming project! On June sixth my Kickstarter crusade goes live! If you lot desire to expect at it hither is the link to the planned campaign! It volition solely run through July eighth (Math 2.0 Day) together with the to a greater extent than eyes together with backers I accept on it at the get-go volition endure great!

Have a wonderful day!

Math Action Thursday! Amongst Doilies In Addition To House Value (Since 1 Forgot To Postal Service Final Time)

I simply uploaded the latest math activeness Thursday! Do yous always purchase doilies because they hold off dandy but hence don't know what to create amongst them? I do! So, I convey some suggestions of what yous tin create amongst those doily packs yous convey unopen to your menage or classroom : )

This video is close making house value organisation models... pretty fun stuff!

I promise everyone is having a fun summertime too having fun amongst their kids or having an enjoyable interruption from the classroom : )

Let me know if yous convey whatever ideas yous desire to percentage for math activeness Th : )

Take care,