I love it when the girls decide for themselves to pull out the math manipulatives to play with and come up with cute little designs. It’s unusual that all three of them decide to play with the same thing at the same time, but on Friday, they all decided to play with the same [...]
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Fun with pattern blocks
Posted in Math, building things on October 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Pumpkin counting and patterns
Posted in Math, Toddler/Preschooler, seasonal activities on October 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I found a new link for seasonal math activities called Mathwire.com.
They had this cute halloween themed paged called 10 Pumpkins up on Top. 3 Monsters with pumpkins on their heads.
Last week at Target I found halloween mini erasers in the shapes of black cat faces and pumpkins. I ended up using [...]
More math fun
Posted in Math on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sorting
Straws (the original size, plus 2 sizes cut down)
Paper clips
I found this awesome 4 section divided tray at a resale shop for $1. It’s perfect for sorting and I’m thinking of doing some other things with it, like “one of these things is not like the other”, and fractions too. The [...]
Cake fractions
Posted in Arts and crafts, Math on August 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My kindergartner wanted a book on math when we went to the library, so we checked out a few books from the Time Life Series “I LOVE MATH”. One of which was called Alice in Numberland.
One of the stories involved making a cake for a party and cutting it into fractions for the number [...]
Bears on the bus math
Posted in Math, Toddler/Preschooler on August 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In the kindergarten class, one of the math worksheets in Saxon Math involves story problems for bears getting on and off a bus to illustrate early addition/subtraction concepts.
I found a great printable called Animal bus from Sparklebox. It is a two page printout of a full color double decker bus with different animals you [...]
Math Patterns
Posted in Math on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have to say I love Mrs. Cox Pre-Kinders website. She has some wonderful ideas and free printables. I finally got around to printing and laminating a few of the math patterns.
They can be used for counting bears (found at Walmart), monopoly hotels, legos, or any other colored manipulative.
SMATH
Posted in Math on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a fun math game that plays like scrabble for your older kiddos. I found it at Marshall’s discount store for $7, half off retail price within the last two weeks. If you have a Marshall’s near you, I’d check them out. Amazon carries SMATH too if you don’t have a [...]
Domino Math
Posted in Math on June 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve used another one of the fabulous worksheets at First-School Preschool Activities and Crafts. This time its for Domino Addition. This time I’m using it for my 5.5 year old.
They have printable dominoes, but since we have a set of double six dominoes, I’m just using the addition template for the [...]
Fishbowl Math
Posted in Math, Toddler/Preschooler on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found this cute fishbowl printable at First-School Preschool Activities and Crafts and decided to make a math game out of it. I printed out the fishbowl in black and white onto cardstock, colored it with a ble colored pencil, and laminated it with clear contact paper.
I used the addition and subtraction activity cards [...]
Preschool cookie math
Posted in Math, Toddler/Preschooler on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found this great free printable cookie math game (scroll down to Cookie Sheet Math) over at Childcareland.com that even my 4 year old enjoys. I printed the addition and subtraction cards and the numbers out on cardstock and laminated them with self-stick laminating sheets (clear contact paper would work too, but would [...]
