Lessons and Ideas for Teaching Numeration

 

http://www.sbgmath.com/grk/chapter5/start/index.html - In this Apples Activity, you and your class will view a Web site showing different kinds of apples. The activity reinforces number comparisons; it especially supports children's use of the concepts of more and fewer. To enhance the exercise, you may wish to display apples in the classroom.

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Arithmetic/ATH0011.html - "Students will improve their counting skills by playing a simple game that requires them to be able to count to six or higher for more advanced students."

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10300018.html - This activity teaches counting and one-to-one correspondence.

http://www.npin.org/library/pre1998/n00109/mathhome/home2.htm - In this activity, children compare images on playing cards to determine more and less.

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10300017.html - This activity teaches grouping, classification, one-to-one correspondence.

http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/explorer-db/html/810757745-81ED7D4C.html - "This activity introduces the concept of one and two, more or less. Upon hearing the problem that he or she has the answer to, the student responds with the answer and then proceeds to pose the next question as it appears on the card. The activity circles the entire classroom. A list of sample questions is included."

http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathcentral/gradeK/kaca1.html - "In this activity, children will follow verbal directions by drawing pictures where indicated and show an understanding of numbers by drawing the correct number of objects, then creating addition sentences. " (Activity sheets included)

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10002026.html - In this activity, students use key tages to practice the skills of one-to-one correspondence, sorting, and categorizing.

http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathcentral/gradeK/ksca1.html - "In this activity, children will write numbers on apples, and then show their understanding of the number's value by putting the corresponding number of seeds on each apple." (Activity sheets included)

http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathcentral/gradeK/kmca2.html - "In this activity, children build numbers to 31 with connecting cubes, and then show their understanding of greater than and less than. " (Activity sheets included)

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10010038.html - In this activity, students practice counting and matching numerals 1-10 with the appropriate number of pictured objects. Buy the book that this lesson comes from by clicking here.

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10300027.html - This activity teaches counting and number names.

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10300074.html - In this activity, students practice counting skills, number names, and ordinal numbers.

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10010111.html - In this activity, students count walnuts as they put them in cups, and put that number or numbered card beside the filled cup. Buy the book that this lesson comes from by clicking here.

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10500070.html - "Mathematical skills and concepts are developed through use. This activity provides practice with the basic mathematical operation of counting. It capitalizes on the stage most children go through when they first learn to count: wanting to count everything. Using the outdoors provides new materials to count, as well as giving the children a chance to explore." Buy the book that this lesson comes from by clicking here.

http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/explorer-db/html/810757739-81ED7D4C.html - "Provides mathematics, and reading/writing activities to do with or after enjoying the book, The M & M's Chocolate Candies Counting Book by Barbara Barbieri McGrath." Buy the book by clicking here

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10002075.html - In this activity, students place the right number of counters on each rod, from 1 to 10.

http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfsjy/mts/math/2-3.htm - The aim of this activity is to introduce tIn this Yo-yo Activity, you and your class will view yo-yos in fantasy environments.

http://www.sbgmath.com/grk/chapter3/start/index.html - The activity reviews ordinal numbers and the identification and writing of the numbers 2, 3, and 5. he symbols and then the vocabulary for the numerals from 0 to 9.(Activity sheets included)

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10005055.html - In this activity, children determine how many rocks it takes to build a dinosaur den while using informal measurement skills to select the number of rocks needed for their cave. Students count out the rocks by name as they build the den. Buy the book used in this lesson by clicking here.

http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathcentral/gradeK/kjca2.html - "In this activity, children will work with positional words, reinforcing their understanding of the terms left, right, before, after, between, first, and last." (Activity sheets included)

http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathcentral/gradeK/kfca2.html - "In this activity children practice estimating ten, counting to ten, and showing understanding of place value by assigning the correct number to groups of "ten trains" and single connecting cubes. " (Activity sheets included)

http://www.sbgmath.com/grk/chapter8/start/index.html - In this Moons Activity, you and your class will see a University of Michigan Web site showing NASA photographs of planets and their moons. Children will practice counting and comparing numbers to 20. (Activity sheets included)

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10300024.html - This activity teaches number names and counting in a fixed sequence.

http://www.ghbooks.com/getpage.cfm?file=activity/10300063.html - In this activity, students practice the concepts of number sequence and verbal number association.

http://www.sbgmath.com/gr1/chapter4/start/index.html - In this Balloon Fiesta Activity, you and your class will see hot-air balloon photographs and drawings. They depict an annual gathering where hundreds of pilots fly hot-air balloons up into the blue skies of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The activity reinforces basic fact strategies such as counting on from a greater number. (Activity sheets included)

Ladybugs and Leaves
Grade 1 - patterns, adding, and counting activity involving the use of ladybug manipulatives

http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/explorer-db/html/813447431-81ED7D49.html - "Students will listen to a story about counting to one hundred and participate in activities using a hundreds chart." (Activity sheets included)

http://www.sbgmath.com/gr2/chapter3/start/index.html - In this Rainforest Activity, you and your class will visit two sites on the Internet and learn about some unusual animals found in a rainforest. The activity reinforces counting skills and will give children ideas for drawing rainforest animals in their Math Storybooks. (Activity sheets included)

http://www.sbgmath.com/gr1/chapter6/start/index.html - In this Birds Activity, you and your class will view a comprehensive on-line resource about birds. While learning facts about a Horned Lark, a Sandhill Crane, and a Wild Turkey, children will practice representing numbers to 50. (Activity sheets included)

http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/explorer-db/html/817016213-81ED7D4C.html - "Introduces a dice game for two to four players. Reinforces the concept of place value by providing the opportunity for participants to read numbers with more than one digit."

Math Games for Number Sense
Grades 1-3 - a variety of math games

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Arithmetic/ATH0008.html - "This activity's blend of skill and chance becomes a highly motivating vehicle to enhance students' understanding of the concept of place value. Time required can be as little as five minutes thereby providing instruction during those lost minutes throughout the day." In an explicitly detailed procedure section, this activity summary illustrates a fun way of allowing all students to become actively involved in a game of chance in which they must be able to differentiate place value and order numbers in order to know if they win!

Counting Books
Students will be able to count from 1-10 and use toothpicks to make number books.

http://www.encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=927&pr=1&newguid=3C21A9A6573D11D489D20008C7D9E3DA - "This site offers a lesson in place value that never fails to build excitement and generate groans of disapproval when it is time to quit. The level of difficulty can be varied based on the grade level and time of year." Students much use prediction strategies to show the ability to order digits to create the highest or lowest possible number in this fun activity. The purpose of this lesson is to build the students knowledge of place value utilizing a more hands on "thinking approach."

Counting Fun with Gummi Bears
Preschool-K - The goal of this lesson is to familiarize the young learner with the numbers one through ten by counting manipulatives.

http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/explorer-db/html/820994424-81ED7D4C.html - Develops communication process skills and the ability to read numerals in the thousands place through an oral activity using egg cartons. Markers are labled with either the place value for ones, tens or thousands. Answers are given based upon the position of the markers that have been shaken within the carton.

http://www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/numbers8.html - K-2 Students will practice counting in 1's, 2's, 5's, or, etc

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Arithmetic/ATH0018.html - The students will explore the world of mathematics by demonstrating visually what place value of whole numbers represents. Base-ten materials will be used to demonstrate this visualization. The class will be divided into cooperative groups, no more than two students in a group. Each group will receive base-ten models to experiment with place value. The groups will also learn how to make sets of tens with them.

123's
This unit includes Favorite Links, Internet Activities, Lesson Plans, and Related Resources for Pre-K-1st grade classes learning to count.

Chips Ahoy Cookies Problem
Grades 1-2 - Are there really 1000 chips in every bag? Find out!

Comparing Numbers
Partners compare the two numbers they have made from tens and ones models--recording data, greater than, less than, performance task, scoring guide.

http://www.iceberg.org/~gbequett/tm.html - M&M's Math

M & M Counting Book
Kindergarten performance task whereby students sort, count, and graph the candy they have received.

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