Counting collections promote mathematical thinking. Students build number sense, develop an understanding of place value, learn how to build and write larger numbers, develop multiplicative reasoning, compare quantities, grow estimation skills, and build computational fluency. It’s also engaging, promotes math discourse, and helps students build agency
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Give your child a collection to count. This can be items such as buttons, q-tips, pennies, beads, puzzle pieces, and even an assortment of items. They can have up to 100 items in the collection.
Next have your child organize the collection. They can puts them into bowls, piles, cups, lines, egg cartons (cut two off to make 10) or use a ten frame. We use ten frames in the classroom a lot! Questions that stimulate math chats: 1 - How did you sort? Why? 2 - How did you count your whole collection? 3- if you could count it another way would you? Why? |