Technically Teaching (Lynn's Blog)

This blog will address my thoughts about using technology with elementary students. Many elementary teachers are apprehensive to incorporate technology into the curriculum. My goal is to be an instrument of change in that area and to be an encouragement to my fellow Educators as they discover the many benefits of using technology in their classrooms.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

New Math Workstation - K-1


This is an activity I put in one of my math workstations for kindergarten. It could be adapted for older children.
First - we used wooden cubes to make dice for the numbers we need to practice. Ours have 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Next - I gave students a "full" ten frame - ones we filled up using bingo markers as a class. (I had them laminated). They also got an empty ten frame (also laminated).
To play - Students roll their die, complete the number using their full ten frame, making X's with a dry erase marker in the empty ten frame to show the number.
Erase and start again!

This really has helped my students begin to understand place value. They look at the "1" in teen numbers as "one ten" and they call the second numeral "___" ones in the empty ten frame.

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