Building Number Sense10 Videos

How I Got My Daughter to Stop Writing 501 as 5001 in 10 Minutes

Writing numbers correctly is often a struggle for young kids.  Most kids can say the numbers but when they go to write them down the way we write numbers doesn’t align with how we say them.  This causes confusion in our students and is one of the reasons students lack place value.  In this post […]

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Number Sense Assessment

I’ve been working on a few books to give teachers (and parents) activities to help build number sense and develop flexibility with their addition facts.  It is one of my goals for the summer to complete them, but in the meantime I will be posting an activity each week.  This isn’t just to get you […]

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Savvy Subitizing Activity

This week for my Number Sense post I decided to share a set of cards that I developed to play a game adapted from the card game Ratuki®.  I love playing Ratuki® with my 6 YO, it is a great subitizing activity, but I wish the amounts shown on the cards went up higher and […]

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