Math Work Stations Chp 5

I agree with many of the kindergarten teachers that have posted of how crucially important it is to use number stories from the beginning of the school year to help with the concept of addition and subtraction. I have used the resources Math Their Way, Developing Number Concept with Unifix Cubes and Explorations ( an out of print Addison-Wesley product) to develop my math program for years. Math series come and go in my school system, but I've never found any thing better than the above mentioned resources. Work Jobs II has many story mats.

I am a collector of math literature and I  begin as many lessons as possible with a math related story. I also have props for many of my books and the children then use them for additional experiences with the book. There are several math literature related pages on my website that have lots of  information. I am constantly on the lookout for puppets, stuffed animals and small manipulatives to make the story more engaging. 

Below are a few of the things you can find on my website.

Go to Math Literature on Linda's Learning Links for more ideas!

Counting Book Activity

 

I love How Many Snails? by Paul Giganti. It is a fabulous counting book that promotes critical thinking skills in young children. Every page has so many objects to count and the questions promote higher level thinking skills. More importantly, each page allows the students to ask their own questions. This past school year I started making wordless How Many ppts. This is one of the children's favorites. I don't have a smart board in my classroom, but I do have an infocus projector.  I divided the class into small groups and each group had to produce three questions about the page shown. (We do this activity after repeated readings of How Many Snails?)

Click on the title below to download.

How Many Bugs?

Math Ideas on my website

I am a follower of Debbie Diller's blog. I am so excited to be participating in the book study of Math Work Stations. Just click on the link to her blog for information about the book study. I started this blog as a way to comment on trends in education, professional issues, etc. But I've decided to change the focus and share materials found on my website and links to other great websites and blogs. I hope this will be a forum to share ideas and activities for literacy and math as well as science and social studies.
Math on my website Linda's Learnng Links

This post was from  a workshop I presented in March:
http://www.lindaslearninglinks.com/marchmathness.htm

Fall Math Ideas: http://www.lindaslearninglinks.com/mathlitfall.html

Winter Math Ideas:http://www.lindaslearninglinks.com/mathlitwtr.html