Domino Math Activities. Dominoes Dominoes have become a staple in most primary classrooms.
They build upon dice patterns and are often used to model decomposition of numbers, building student knowledge of addition facts. They are an excellent manipulative for primary students to use and these are some examples of how students might use dominoes in the math center. Illustrated Mathematics. Illustrated Standards Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
(see illustrations) ECAM Centers. What are ECAM Centers?
Several of the schools that I do consulting work in use the Early Childhood Assessment in Mathematics, commonly known as ECAM, (Board of Education of the City of New York,2001; State Education Department) to assess students' math skills at the beginning, middle and end of each school year. Designed for students in academic, or chronological grades K-2 the assessment is conducted as a one-on-one interview, during which the child performs small mathematical tasks, and explains his/her thinking as s/he proceeds. When they first began using this assessment teachers found that although the assessment provided useful information they were struggling with how to use this information effectively given the constraints of their mandated math curriculum. Hence, ECAM Centers were developed as a means of using this data effectively to differentiate instruction with the primary goal being to improve the number sense of all students. BA - Balanced Assessment: Primary Grades Balanced Packet.
Mrs. Meacham's Math.