Hands On Counting

I don't know who had the most fun in math this week; me or the kids. One focus of my math class is teaching one to one correspondence with numbers. For the older kids I found a tool from Lakeshore. Frogs on a log. It was a hit.

One of my star pupils showed off by using the frogs to add and then counting the total in her head and then choose the right number from a field of three. Way to go!!







For the younger ones I found Touch Math to be a good hands on approach to numbers.

Each number has a corresponding number of dots. The kids get to feel the shape of the 3D plastic numbers and then count the dots.