Teacher Mama: Helping Hands for Skip Counting. I was going through my boxes of teaching materials from my pre-kids teaching career.
Oh, if you didn’t know, I have returned to the classroom after 6 years off to be home with my boys. Sort and Count Maths Bottles. Use old bottles and pom poms for simple counting and sorting maths games and motor skills fun!
With lots of ways to play and learn, these are a great addition to the maths area at home or school. Welcome to another Playful Maths activity, part of a series being co-hosted with Learn with Play at Home each week. We aim to provide simple, engaging and completely play-based ways to practise maths skills with young children, using everyday materials.
See our Pinterest board of ideas here! This week we are looking at ways to re-use plastic bottles in maths play. Using a dry-wipe pen, I wrote a number on the front of each one and then simply set out a large basket filled with pom poms in the corresponding colours to the bottles, as an Invitation to Play. Cakie recognised all numbers 1-10 easily, and was able to count out the correct number to add to each bottle, but needed reminding occasionally to move the pom poms using 1:1 correspondence instead of simply pointing at them. Pop: 2.11. Truffula Tree Math Games Inspired by Dr. Seuss' The Lorax. The Lorax is one of my personal favorite Dr.
Seuss books because of the environmental message. It’s such a great lesson we all need to learn. I was quite impressed that even my 3 year old understands this. He is quick to point out all of the bad things done to the animals in the book. Best Fun and Educational Math Apps for iPhone iPad iPod. I do think that math apps for the iPhone/iPad/iPod are a really fun way to learn and practice math.
In some ways, very specific apps like the ones from iDevMath can serve as a private tutor for your child, teaching a concept step by step and provide problems for practice. Mama Jenn: Make Your Own Geoboard. August 28, 2009 This post may contain affiliate or advertiser links.
Please review my full disclosure policy. Geoboards are a great tool for math. Number sort. Kindergarten Pi-Day Activities. When I was telling my sister that I was getting Pi-Day activities ready to share with Firecracker's kindergarten class, she asked me, "What do you tell the kindergarteners about pi?
" (If you've never heard of Pi-Day, you can see my explanation here.) The answer is not much...understanding the number pi is a bit too advanced for kindergarten. (Which is probably why I didn't find many kindergarten Pi-Day Activities when I googled it.) We'll tell them that pi is a number that will be important for circles when they're older...and we'll be celebrating circles and math more than the pi itself. I figure that the more fun math seems to them now, the better attitude they'll have in the long run. Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom. As a follow up to my post about writing apps (which you can click here to see) I thought I’d share some of the math and counting apps we’ve discovered. Again, it’s been challenging to find the few jewels among the plain old rocks. I really hadn’t realized how many apps were out there, nor how terrible some of them could be!
The ones I list below (in no particular order) are the ones that I like because of their educational value, and that kids like for their entertainment value. Each of these apps (except for Count Sort Match) offers a free “lite” version and a full price version. Math Fun / Linus the Minus Anchor Chart ... perfect for word problems! Math Fun / Gus the Plus- Frugal in First.
La chanson des formes.WMV. Bottle Top Calculator. Number Writing and Recognition. Playful Maths. Welcome once again to the "Playful Maths" weekly series brought to you by Together, let's make MATHS FUN!
This week we bring you 2 Playful Maths Activities using Bottle Tops. Today's activity from us focuses on "Number Recognition and Number Writing" This activity also includes counting, subitising and pretend play and could include addition, subtraction etc. Ages: 2+ (M has just turned 4. Making your Bottle Top Calculator Materials: 12 Plastic Recycled Bottle Tops, a piece of thick recycled cardboard, all purpose glue, scissors, marker and foam number stickers (optional). Directions: Cut your cardboard to sizeStick (or write) the numbers 0-9 on ten of the bottle tops and write "on" and "off" on the remaining two.Glue your number and word bottle tops on your cardboardDraw in a "screen" 75+ Math Activities from The PLAY Group. We are always looking for ways to play and learn with numbers.
Today we are sharing 75 simple early learning math activities with you! Early learning math activities teach skills like number recognition, counting, simple addition & subtraction, sorting, sequencing numbers, and measuring. These early learning math activity ideas are shared by some phenomenal moms that make up the P.L.A.Y Group {Play & Learning Activities for You!}.