Math Mania!

We have been working hard to learn our numbers 1-20. It is important for every child to be able to count to 20, recognize the numbers in isolation, and illustrate the numbers. This week, we played several new games that helped us on our mathematical journey to learning numbers 1-20!

One of our favorite new games is Grab and Count. For this game, we worked in partners. Each group was given a bucket of objects (unifix cubes, magnetic letters, color tiles, etc.), whiteboard, dry-erase marker, and eraser.  In Grab and Count, one student grabs a handful of objects from the bucket and counts them. The other student in the partnership then writes the number on the whiteboard. Below are a few pictures of this fun game!

The next day, students played Grab and Count independently.  They worked at their tables and recorded their numbers in their Math Investigations book. Below are some of our students playing the game. The last picture is a snapshot of the Math Investigations book with student work.

The following day, we worked on an awesome game called Roll and Record. For this game, the students worked in partner groups. Each group was given a die, a felt rectangle, and their Math Investigations book. The students rolled their die on the felt rectangle and then recorded the number the die landed on. They repeated this process several times and recorded their data in a chart. Below are pictures of the students enjoying this great game!